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The Emotional Response

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Emotion by definition, is not logical.  Is this why we shame ourselves for having feelings?  Well, I’m actually speaking from personal experience, and I expect there are others like me, as we live in a society that shames emotion.  It’s thought of as a weakness.  I guess the thought process is, “how can you be logical if you experience emotions”?

It is only in my adulthood that I’ve learned to view emotions as a normal part of being human.  It’s humorous to me now, when I think that I ever tried to escape having emotions/feelings.  Of course, we all want to avoid negative emotions, but if we didn’t have the negative ones, such as sadness, jealousy, frustration, fear, guilt or doubt–would we have the capacity for happiness, love, faith, peace or trust?  Logically, no.  When I came to terms with this logic, I was able to understand the purpose of emotions and fully experience negative and positive feelings with a sense of peace.  Ironically, it’s only by understanding things emotionally, that I’m able to be brave and resolute with major life decisions, (though it is still a learning process).

If we are aware of why we have certain feelings, we are able to adjust ourselves to a more consistent way of thinking.  How could I have ever thought of emotion being a bad thing, or something that shouldn’t happen?  Emotion is the flavor of life!  Not only is it a level of experience in life, but when we are conscious of our emotions we can them navigate us through life.  It guides us towards evolution if we experience them consciously.

So current status, feeling all the feels.  Learning to be conscious through the process.

  • e·mo·tion (ĭ-mō′shən)
    • A mental state that arises spontaneously rather than through conscious effort and is often accompanied by physiological changes.
    • Such mental states or the qualities that are associated with them, especially in contrast to reason: a decision based on emotion rather than logic.
  • log·ic (lŏj′ĭk)
    • A system of reasoning: Aristotle’s logic.
    • A mode of reasoning.
    • The formal, guiding principles of a discipline, school, or science.
    • Valid reasoning.

Definitions acquired from http://www.thefreedictionary.com.

Vision

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Do you ever sit and think about your life? If so, what do you see? Do you think about current circumstances, past endeavors, or future happenings? What do you think of more? What is in your daily conversation with others? What’s you’re daily conversation with yourself? What is in your current line of vision?

I recently had a conversation with an old friend, and I came across a thought that a certain part my life has not developed to its best potential because I never envisioned myself at the “top” position. Other parts of my life have taken precedent in my daily thoughts, and I haven’t actually envisioned where I want to be or how I want to feel in this certain area of my life. With every other area, I thought of where I want to be and made plans to get there, whether the plans were executed to success or failure. So how can I expect an end result in this certain area that I give no thought to?

A great part of me that is romantic and believes that whatever is for me will come across my path at some point. And I do believe that all choices and circumstances have built my current perception (optimistic yet practical). But the logical part of me understands that all worthwhile achievements take planning and time to accomplish. If I have not envisioned myself in this position, I will not be able to even see when this opportunity crosses my path, much less take on the responsibility that comes with it (or the power and know how to hold onto it).

Life is about vision, followed by actionable steps. So I have started envisioning what it would feel like to be in this position. I think of ways to prepare being in this position. We often think of the benefits and don’t think of the sacrifice. My vision includes all of the above.

So envision what it is you want and how it would feel to achieve it. If it’s a position at work, what would that position’s workload entail? Build yourself to the point of knowledge and confidence, so that when you are given the opportunity, you will be able to take it on. Your vision is your own. Take sight, and execute.

Authenticity

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“And you know the truth by the way it feels.” – India Arie

It is easier to walk a road that’s paved. It’s easier to decide on what you want when someone tells you it’s what’s best. It’s easier to adhere to what the world tells you you are, or should be, because it’s less scary. It’s safe. But at what point does keeping it safe prevent you from “keeping it real.”

The most profound thing we can do in our lives, is to be honest with ourselves. This is why people mediate. This is why people pray. It allows reflection to see those parts that are damaged, broken, bruised and healing, and gives insight to the lives we have lived and the lives we wish to live. When we are willing to look at the parts of ourselves that aren’t what we want them to be, we are able to make the choice to accept and love those parts, or to change them/our perception of them. With that same insight, we are also about to see those parts that we love about ourselves, and praise them unapologetically. Only then can we truly be authentic in this world. We are not all successes, or all failures. We are made up of a plethora of life experiences that help mold us.

We all have shit that we’ve been raised with and in. We all have shit that we’ve put up with and have been been put through. We all have shit that we have to let go of and shit that we wish to change. We all have shit that we have to accept in order to move forward. But how often do take the time to look at yourself and truly assess who you are in your day to day life, to who you want to be when you lay your head down at night? This has nothing to do with the image in the mirror, or the parts that we can pretty up in front of a total stranger. Neither does this have anything to do with how the people who raised you, view you, or what your friends and associates think of you. Yes, these are important, as we are social beings. But there is a line to be drawn, as there are so many things outside of ourselves that can distort our perception of ourselves, and our lives, if we let it. Knowing who you are, and what your core beliefs are, makes it possible to draw that line clearly.

I find that one of the things that makes this possible, is learning how to differentiate and originate fleeting moments of passion, rage, hurt, pride, fear. In understanding yourself and where these feelings come from, you are able to get down to the real truth of it. And yes I said real truth because, there are levels to this. There are levels to your being. You are a being made of mental, spiritual, physical, and emotional influences. Some people are ruled more by one than the other. It is up to you to get to know yourself well enough to acknowledge which attributes you are more drawn to, so that you may find balance. First step in authenticity is getting real WITH YOURSELF.

I haven’t always been grounded, and I probably won’t be every single day for the rest of my life, but I progress. I know that I am not the same person I was a year or two years ago, and I am accepting of the challenges I face. I accept my truth. By facing myself every day and by doing my best to stay grounded, I am getting to know myself better. I am getting to understand myself better. I am getting to trust myself more. I always do my best to be honest and straightforward in my day to day life and I do my best to stay true to my core beliefs. With them in place, I know I live my day to day with authenticity.

What do you need in order to live within the realms of your authenticity?

authentic

1a : worthy of acceptance or belief as conforming to or based on fact

b : conforming to an original so as to reproduce essential features

c : made or done the same way as an original

2: not false or imitation : real, actual

3: true to one’s own personality, spirit, or character

definition acquired from www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/authentic

Accountability

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Life is a process that includes failing over and over again for the sake of learning how to live the best life we can. It is imagined that each of these choices lead us to a life that we intend. So ask yourself three questions:

  • At this point, am I living the life I intended?
  • Am I on the road to the life I envision for myself?
  • How much have I held myself accountable for the choices I have made in relation to the outcome of my life at this point?

This idea of accountability has been on my mind as of late. Honestly, I wrongly held it in judgment of another. Once I put into perspective that this person’s choices are personal and should only be judged by this person, and can only be changed by this person, I directed this critical lens to myself. I asked myself those same questions and came to the conclusion that I am too often careless with my thoughts, too often careless in my words, and too often careless in my actions. I need to be more intentional in my every day life.

I came to this conclusion with full understanding of how blessed I am and have been. Many tangible blessings came over the past few years, with conscious thought and direction of spirit and action. Others came by seeming happenstance. And I say seeming, because I believe that we all manifest things, people, and circumstances into our lives. Even if we are not conscious of how we called them into our lives, they are put here to teach us about ourselves in relation to the world and to expose us to the world as a whole. It is our job to learn and apply as necessary.

So, how do you view life? Your vision, your ethics, your ambition, etc., are all tools you develop and strengthen throughout life. Do you let things, people and circumstances sharpen those tools to or do you shift your direction and let them control your actions negatively?

We are all blessed with talents and many of us acquire special skills. To acquire our goals, we must direct these talents and acquired knowledge to make choices that positively influence us and those around us in a positive way. When we hold ourselves accountable for our lives and choices, we are able to make the necessary changes to our thoughts and outer worlds to better fit our vision.

Accountability starts with the way we see our lives, continues with how much we believe we have an influence over our lives, and ends with the actions we take within our lives. Make each thought, feeling and action count.

ac·count·a·bil·i·ty
əˌkoun(t)əˈbilədē/

noun

:the quality or state of being accountable; especially :an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one’s actions
Definition acquired by https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/accountability

I wrote a poem yesterday (11/11/2017), inspired by this topic, and it is featured on the “Poetry” page (link above).

Expect more poetry in the future, but if you want to read new poetry daily, follow me on any one of my social media pages.

Challenges

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“Almost every adult is, in a greater or lesser degree, still struggling on the long journey to achieve selfhood on the basis of patterns which are set in his early experiences…” – Rollo May

One of the first challenges we face, and continue to face throughout our lives, is the battle between our ego and superego. The ego is “the part of the mind that mediates between the conscious and the unconscious and is responsible for reality testing and a sense of personal identity.” The superego is “only partly conscious, represents internalization of parental conscience and the rules of society, and functions to reward and punish through a system of moral attitudes, conscience, and a sense of guilt.” If we are working to be better, we have to unlearn as much as we have to learn, because there are things that bound us and things that allow us to live the lives we intend. It is true, “we are who we are,” but there are also things that we want to achieve and acquire on levels of consciousness, spirituality, physicality and materially, that we do not have from birth. These things are only acquired by overcoming challenges, great and small.

What is your definition of a challenge? How often do you think of the word and what it means in your everyday life? I ask this, because although I have faced challenges, I never realized that a challenge is the pathway to a goal (even when I started forming and working on my goals). Challenges are a part of every single day, consciously and subconsciously, big and small, overtly and in the subtexts of our lives. I realized that not seeing something as a challenge was a disservice to my growth. I never thought of being better as a challenge, per se. I just knew I wanted to be better or to acquire something. But in understanding the role of challenges in my life and betterment, I have gained more focus and a different perception. I realize that challenge doesn’t mean “hard.” A challenge is something worthwhile and achievable.

In trying to create a life we feel is up to our individual standards, we are faced with every possible distraction to veer us away from simply envisioning what we want our lives to be. And without vision, we cannot see the paths or steps to acquiring that life and are not able to consciously work towards that life. To get there, we must propose challenges upon ourselves, goals. And along the way, we will undoubtedly be faced with unexpected challenges. Either way, rising to a challenge, is the only way to get better. And we must work to move past being COMFORTABLE in order to learn and grow and acquire what it is we want to get.

A great analogy to challenges and life is Arnold Schwarzenegger’s comment in, “Pumping Iron,” the documentary. I felt I had to mention this, no matter how long winded this post may seem, because it struck me to my core. It made so much sense and put things in perspective with challenges that I was facing at the time. He stated, more or less, that it’s only by working past the pain barrier that the targeted muscle grows. You have to push and do those few reps after you start to feel the burn. That’s the only way you will see results and gains, with the challenges of life (and the challenges of lifting). Try thinking of it on those terms. You are the muscle, and it’s your mind and your will that get you through, helps you grow. That pain barrier is the crux to being better, stronger, a better defined individual.

Now that may seem grim. The only way we can experience joy is through pain. But I believe life was meant to be full of things that push and pull at our core, and force us to really see what we are made of. That which broadens your mind and your will is that which sustains and stretches our abilities as an individual and as a human being. Remember, life was not meant to be easy, but it was meant to be joyous and fulfilling. We have to continually push through that pain barrier to get to our desired destination.

Another thing to think about are all of the things that come in your path in a single day that distract you past the need and want for challenges? They can be surface or things that run deep. Are you fully aware of those everyday things?

Write down a goal you’re trying to achieve (in your phone, on a sticky note paper, wherever), whether long-term or short-term. As the day goes on, write down all the things, within that day, that keep you from achieving that goal. Example, a goal of mine is to be able to do a set of unassisted pull-ups by the end of the year. Something that keeps me from being able to do that currently is obviously my upper body strength. Before, it was also me accepting that I didn’t have enough upper-body strength, accepting my weakness, it was Netflix, Instagram, friends, laziness, lack of determination….etc. But what I’m trying to point out with this simple example, is that no matter how simplistic the challenge may be, there are many parts to the challenge which strengthen intangible things as well as those that can be seen with the plain eye (such as becoming more disciplined and confident with my workout regimen and having a more defined body, respectively).

I enjoy comfort immensely. I enjoy pleasure and luxury and being lazy. But I also enjoy the rewards of a challenge. I like the way my teres major feels the day after working on my pull-ups. In working through self imposed challenges, I feel better about myself because I’ve accomplished my set goal. In working past challenging times, I become a better person by learning different aspects of myself that weren’t previously revealed to me. All in all, challenges make me look at the world in a different way. I look at myself in a different way. I’ve realized that I am even more flawed than I knew and in turn, this makes me a bit more conscious and a bit more compassionate towards myself. I am more grounded as an individual, which allows me to challenge myself in different ways and work to be more compassionate with others.

Remember, challenges are the hoe to your garden. Once you till the foundation, you’re able to plant seeds for your future. You will be able to give more to yourself and others because you will feel and think more abundantly. I’m saying this through experience. The key is to this mindset is compassion and consciousness. Conscious change is a challenge that we struggle through, working past the comfort zone. But seeing and feeling the difference makes it all worth it. Recognizing even a slight bit more as to where energies were spent, is spent and should be spent allows further growth. When I take a look at myself on my journey with compassion, I am able to look at it a bit more objectively. I feel more virtuous and my esteem for myself and others are magnified.

“We must rediscover the sources of strength and integrity within ourselves.” -Rollo May

* Definitions were acquired from http://www.thefreedictionary.com.

Patience

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“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” -Aristotle

I chose to write on this topic because of the way certain intense failures and progresses have converged at this time of my life. My posts in the past few weeks have touched on failing and continuing to work on those goals. I spoke about having the courage to get back up after those failures. But what is also key, is having the patience and mind-set to do so. Patience has never been a strength of mine. I don’t believe I ever thought I could ever gain patience because I only do things when I am ready to take on the challenge. So when I am ready, I want what I want, when I want it, which means right away. I know that’s not the way things work; I think I’ve always known that, but I was never able to take a look at the bigger picture. But with maturity, I am starting to realize that just as I cannot be rushed, no process can be rushed. Things happen in their due time and I believe it’s life’s lessons that have matured me in this sense. Little by little, in understanding that cliche, “patience is a virtue,” I hope that my character is strengthened and deepened; because even with continued understanding of Faith, learning how to be patient has been a painstaking lesson to learn.

As stated in previous posts (I hope you read them), I have tried and failed with a few goals. But with others, I now see their progress and imminent fruition. When I set these goals I knew that they would take time, but I did not know how long they would take to complete. It has taken over a year just for me to just to see progress. There were times of frustration, but in seeing that my persistence has paid off, I realize now, how important it is to never give up or force-ripen a fruit, a goal. With the honest labor of love for a given desire, all things will be. And even with the failed attempts, I know that I have to continue being patient with achieving them, simply because I still want these things. I know it’s cheesy, but to me, attempting and failing is life speaking to me. It’s another life lesson on patience. I believe I can have anything I want and work for. So I still work on achieving these goals. I will not give up, regardless of how many times I stumble or fail.

Another benefit through having patience and Faith, is that I am able to fully appreciate other progresses made. It makes me realize that life is a journey and though at times I am disappointed or frustrated by a temporary failure, I am restored to a heart full of appreciation and I take what good I can from it. And in being more patient with the situation, I am more patient with myself. I am able to be more appreciative of myself and my gifts, and realize that I cannot force any given situation or my growth. After those moments of anger, frustration, disappointment and sadness I realize that all those feelings do is blur my vision to my current goals and my current blessings; all I see in those moments are failure, and pain in disappointment. If I apply for a job, enter a contest or try to lose a certain amount of pounds, even if I do not accomplish what it is I want when I want it, I will always get what it is I need to get what I ultimately want in due time.

With time, my goals may change as I change, but in being patient I find I am more clear in mind. I am not frustrated with forcing any given result to happen right away. So lately I’ve just been more conscious of waking-up outwardly grateful for the progress I have made. I am more conscious of being grateful for my number one inspiration, LOVE. I work to keep my goals in focus everyday. And for that I feel wiser; I feel stronger; I feel empowered and more ready to try again at those things I didn’t yet accomplish. And I’ve been more content and happier for it. I never really say exactly what my goals are, but I aim to sustain this mind-set; because perpetual happiness is an ultimate goal.

Courage

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As stated many times before, there are many things that I want to accomplish. I actually just finished a in-depth conversation with a very close friend about one of these goals and the effort I have been putting in. In turn, I also stated that so many people I know don’t seem to put effort into anything and seem to be getting by. “It’s not fair” came out of my mouth a few times. To say the least, the past few months have not been easy. But this makes me realize, that nothing is going to seem “fair” during the journey. A lot of times it has been hard for me to believe that I can continue believing in having something more. So in these trying times, I started listening to a lot of motivational speeches. My favorite being “The Strangest Secret,” narrated by Earl Nightingale. One nugget he states is “success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal. If a man is working towards a predetermined goal, he is a success. If he is not doing that, he is a failure.” He also states, “the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.” So in the face of hardship, I must remember, “I am a success because I am courageous.”

What we receive is directly in proportionate to what we get. And I post all of these positive things, but once things get discouraging, I have to check myself. Changing a way of thinking and being is hard, especially when all around, things try to convince you to take the easy route and stay the same. I was going to name this post “Effort,” but realized that effort equals to the Courage we must have to make this effort. It takes a lot of courage to believe in anything, much less think that things can be different from what it is you see and know. A lot of times it’s the ones we love or look up to that tell us that these things are not achievable. Think of a child who believe in Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny and their reaction once they realize that what they believed in wasn’t real. Think of believing in a Love and the feeling of realizing that the Love you thought was real was an apparition. Think of working on a project that you believe in for months or years and then being rejected over and over again by the powers that be. It can be devastating. It takes courage to go all in and put that effort in to wholeheartedly believe.

So many of us want things but lack the vision and motivation. We don’t know HOW we will get somewhere, so somewhere in our mind, back in our subconscious there are little voices that discourages ACTION. They discourage you from taking the first step and to follow through with all of the steps that follow. These little voices give excuses. Maybe they tell you flat out that you won’t be able to get what you want. Maybe they say you should wait until the “right time.” Maybe you worry about what your parents, friends or critics would say, but courage is “the quality of mind or spirit that enables a person to face difficulty, danger, pain, etc., without fear.” William James stated “we need only in cold blood act as if the thing in question were real and it will become infallibly real by growing into such a connection with our life, that it will become real. It will be so in knit with habit and emotion that our interest in it will be those that characterize belief.” William Shakespeare noted “our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.” Our courage is in our beliefs. Our courage is in our actions.

Sometimes I think I am naive, but I am idealistic, and I do believe “what give is what you get” (though sometimes this does not seem to be the case). Sometimes you give so much and don’t seem to get what it is that you put into a situation / endeavor. But the key is not to give up. The key is to become stronger and to become more courageous. Your goals will be met, even after successive seeming failures. Many of us give up in the sight of failure which is why it takes courage to “believe and achieve.” It takes courage to face yourself, your worst enemy and your best friend. But once you realize success is a process and a journey, you will be able to face all things that come your way. You will be willing to go down a road and not stop until you reach the end. Many things will be in your path. Many things will tell you you’re doing the wrong thing or that you’re going in the wrong direction and ask how are you going to get all the way down the path of the impossible or unknown. Fix your mind to believe that nothing that will stand in your path will prevent you from achieving your goal. This is the key. Courage.

Remember, the number one naysayers is more than likely, yourself. So set your mind to a goal and gather the courage to see it all the way through. I came across a prime example while going through motivational speeches; a 12 minute video of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s story. He set a goal and against all odds, became a champion. How did he do this? He put in effort daily. He believed in himself so much that he convinced others to believe in him too. Now there is a sports festival named after him.

It takes courage to stand alone. It takes courage to say no to conformity in order to become and achieve something greater. Each of us are all great. We each just have to have the courage to believe that we are.

Building on the Ground of Defeat

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I recently faced defeat. I put my whole being into an endevour and when I didn’t succeed at my goal I felt as though I failed. After a bit of time feeling this way I decided that I had to make a change. I had to change how I felt because my goals still have to be achieved. But I’ve learned that emotions are a process. Once the mind makes a decision, the emotional aspect of that decision is something that can take time because you still remember what that failure/ defeat felt like. So when I decided to restore, I had to make my mind stronger than my emotions. And when one firmly decides to make a change, one is opened to finding different tools within day to day life to aide in that goal. I came across a few things that echoed my sentiments:

1. The quote: “We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.” -Maya Angelou

This reminded me that in this time in my life, it is important to not let mistakes or seeming failures (even repeated mistakes/ seeming failures) hold me back from continuing to strive in being consistent in exuding positivity and productivity and in simply, being better. I must not let failure bring me to a mind-space that “I will not be able to ever meet my goals.” And though I falter CONSTANTLY with my positivity (more times than I’d like to admit), I realize that if I punish myself for all the wrong I’ve done as opposed realizing why I did not succeed at that time and where I went wrong, I will not be able to correct my actions in the future. I would be in-fact imposing more negative energy on myself, my life and my future endeavors. I have to be positive even when I’m wrong and feel defeated, or I will more than likely wallow longer with/ because of a defeated mentality.

2. “A post on LinkedIn Influencers share how they turned setbacks into success.”

As powerful/ experienced/ driven as we may feel on a day to day basis, we are human. We fall into holes; we get tired; we get bored; we get lazy; we make a mistakes. We are complex creatures that live complex lives from an array of experiences. Many of those experiences that press us and challenge us, are there to help us grow and become stronger. The key is letting them. Certain experiences push us to the breaking point, and maybe sometimes even break us in making us doubt our abilities. But the fight in us is what determines the outcome. A moment where we doubt our abilities is a moment where we inadvertently make the choice between growth/expansion or failure/stagnation. But once we are in that moment of fear and doubt, we still have a chance to decided what defines us. Every year, month, day, moment, we must decide on moving forward towards progression.

Learn to face your weaknesses and your mistakes HEAD ON. You can only fail if you quit/ give-up. SO DON’T!

3. Easter.

This may seem odd to some (especially those that know me because I do not currently practice a religion). But through my own interpretations, and being raised Catholic, I realize that religious lessons do give word to life lessons. It is up to the one listening/ reading to find the guidance it provides. And it is the idea of resurrection and renewal that I’d like to touch on.

To me, Easter is about being “spiritually resurrected.” I believe in turning bad situations into lessons and making something you feel you will never recover from, a stepping stone. This is by walking in Faith. Whether in our careers, finances or relationships, there are heights and pitfalls. We are all magnificent beings, but many of us don’t truly believe in the power we possess to be better in all areas in life. Maybe we feel as though we are undeserving or that we are not strong enough to lift ourselves from defeat. There are many obstacles–mental, physical and spiritual. But what gets me through is understanding that we all have weaknesses. And by simply recognizing those weakness we become stronger. And then by working on our weaknesses we get even stronger. And when we finally overcome those weaknesses, we recognize our strengths instead of our weakness.

Recognizing our strengths allow us to recognize the strength of others. And when we see the good in others, we are more of an asset to society, our loved ones and most importantly, ourselves. With each step towards overcoming and building from and past those setbacks and moments of defeat, we feel empowered and we feel FULL. We are able to give not only to ourselves, but to others. And the beautiful thing about giving is we allow ourselves to receive the same. We figure out how to renew because we are abundant.

So when you feel as though things are hard and you’re so low that you don’t think you’ll ever get where you truly want to be, remember that building is a process. Getting stronger is a process. Being better takes time–it takes failing over and over and over again. But it also takes having a mind-set that would not allow you to give up. Because how can you put the effort into anything from a defeated mind-set? How can you build anything believing you don’t already have what it takes to achieve it?

“Resurrect” yourself and walk firmer, taller and stronger than before with the Faith and optimism that you are better and will be better than ever before.

Learning to Dream

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Does that make sense?  Somewhere along the line, I believe many of us unlearn how to really dream.  We unlearn how to believe without boundaries and learn how to differentiate dream from reality to the point that we don’t really realize how interconnected our lives are with our dreams, our imagination.  We get discouraged by the slightest thought of “reality,” where “no one gets what they want in life and most of us work hard just to survive.” We are about the duties of life and not how to make your life worthwhile; adult responsibilities are more important than finding and sustaining happiness. But, everyone deserves to be happy. And how can we teach that to another generation this if we don’t know how to just be happy. First we must relearn what we’ve lost and reach what we once thought was attainable.

I thought that knowing how to dream is something that we just knew how to do.  That it’s something we carry on from childhood.  A skill.  But like any skill, dreaming has to be practiced regularly to be sustained and improved. I don’t think that many people I know remember how to do that. I’m not talking about falling asleep at night and subconsciously forming pictures in your mind (though many people don’t even remember their night dreams…coincidence?). I’m talking about stretching your imagination to the point where you thought you could honestly do anything.

I’ve just realized that what we learn as adults replaces what we know intrinsically as children. But this shouldn’t be. When we learn must add all of these skills onto our mental library and develop them with time.

Try to remember what you once believed the world to be and be it. We mustn’t give up on achieving the impossible. It’s in these moments we find magic. We find out things about ourselves that we didn’t know or that we forgot. It may be difficult at times, but we will find happiness in those moments where our beliefs become reality. I am relearning how to believe and there are setbacks, but I always come back to my dream.

Now, I’m not suggesting you quit your job and leave your family behind, but using the talents we all were blessed with (yes you have a talent/talents) to utilize to bring about quality to our lives and the lives of those around us. Even if we use them in a small way. It is in those connections (with yourself and others) and with those gifts, that we reconnect with our dreams. And I know I sound like a broken record, but it all comes down to L. O. V. E.

Love what you do. Love who you are. Love where you’re going. Love what your past has taught you. Because as I heard at a fitness convention last year, “everything you are in this moment is a culmination of all that you have done.”

So with that logic, everything you can be starts from this moment you’re in and will build day by day by all that you do. Start your dream today; right now, in this moment by believing it’s a reality that can be attained. And remember…Love inspires all things, so inspire Love.

Completion Through Love

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My vision
My soul-mate
I was made whole
But completion is what I sought
In you
In me
The charge behind my passions
The comfort in my holds
Released within your arms
The world, a fog beyond my grasp
We will create
We will inspire
Seeing everything and nothing beyond our world
Together
We have so much to do
Cultivate
Build
To inspire within each other what we want to see in the world
The challenge and privilege of Love
Of THIS Love
We are the seed
We are just a branch of a tree
Just the stem to a leaf
We were made whole
But we sought completion
The balance we craved and seeked blindly was in the other
Heart to Heart
Mind to Mind
Soul to Soul