DO IT YOURSELF

You either are or you aren't. There is no in between. Big talk. No Action. Its an epidemic. Why should someone else have to convince you to have dreams? Or chase them? Or work to build the life you want? Nobody should have to "pull" you along to success...and nobody is going to either! Its on YOU. There is nothing anyone...myself included...can say or do that can motivate you to do anything. You may think others are motivating you...but really we are reminding you of your own motivations. The ones you probably dont speak of for fear of disapproval. We all have our own reasons for doing anything...especially anything great. Then remind yourself & focus on these reasons daily...no hourly...and use them as fuel to build your ultimate existence. Your reasons are in your heart and you either want it or you don't...and your ACTIONS tell that story. Not your words. Not your memes Not your shares Not your Facebook posts. Your actions are all that matter. ...

Humans are not meant for " THE EASY PATH " We are meant to be tested. We are meant to be challenged. We are meant to struggle. We are meant to be scarred. We are meant to lose. Learn to love these facts...and greatness will find you. Losers sit in the corner, play it "safe" and look for the best way not to lose. Winners look for the best way to win and understand that losing is essential to winning regardless of how many beatings they take. When you remove the losing...you remove the learning. When you remove the learning...you remove the progress. When you remove the progress...you remove the skills needed to win. Accept & appreciate your beatings...and use them to your advantage. Losing will teach you far more about winning than winning ever will. Quit cowering in the corner. Nothing good happens there.

I have learned anything this year, it is this: It is okay to not be okay. It is the mark of a strong person to be vulnerable enough to admit as much, to know when to ask for help and to receive it, to do whatever it takes to feel better, to speak out or withdraw as self-care. To have courage and talk openly about whatever we need to. Our feelings are real. We are brave. We are not annoying anyone by reaching out. We are not crazy. We must be kind to ourselves. our kindness toward others can reach and lift us when we can't be. Our healing and empowerment lies in living from the truth of who we are. Who that is, is more than okay. Empathy and emotion in an age of disconnection is a superpower; it is a gift to feel as much as we do. We heal our compassion fatigue and overall suffering, we integrate our wild untamed feelings when we embrace them fully, the light and the dark, and give them and ourselves more love more understanding and gratitude for the messengers they are and growt...