E is for Enjoy Life

“Each day is a present from my father”

– Sarah Young

Embrace it!

Enjoy it!

Experience each day whole-heartedly because we only have today. If you are doubting, you are living in yesterday. If you are anxious, you are living in tomorrow. Enter into today, and keep your mind focused on making the moments of time you will never have again when they are gone, good.

“Instead of a life cluttered with anxiety

pray about everything and let God’s peace

guard your hearts and minds in Christ”

– Anonymous

A good elixir is to remember that despite our songs and dances, all the work, responsibilities, pressures, baggage, goal crunching, we still have today and can still enjoy life by simply appreciating the day God made and finding reasons to smile in it.

Express joy in it!

Make each day your masterpiece and empower yourself to make an effort to give your best while life is still happening. Especially since, worrying about tomorrow is somewhat of a conundrum considering that tomorrow is not promised and may not even come. Despite what we might have been through, being here today means that you survived it. Expressing gratitude for how much of a powerful individual you are, is more empowering than anything you could do. Celebrate your accomplishments. Pat yourself on your own back when you are able to complete tasks. Find a way to celebrate you everyday!  

Enjoy Life!

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I Am Happy Doing What I Do!

“When I'm singing, I'm happy.

I'm doing what I can do 

and this is my contribution to life”

(Anita O’Day).

I think it is better to do what you truly love to do than to live with regrets of should’ve would’ve could’ve. It becomes hard to forget all the chances we never took and the opportunities we allowed to slip by.

I say, if something stays up in your mind and you love to do it, then do it. Sure, we must take cautionary views because we do not know what tomorrow will bring, but I think it is better to live through the day with chances being taken at doing something that is in your heart.

Your journey may bring you to a solitary state if it is not something that your family or peers agree with. Many people suffer the same, believing that they should make everybody else happy by doing what is expected of you by others. Instead of following through on your own dreams, they may make you feel that you have to fit into their plans for you somehow.

But a new year is about to start. A new era of going the extra mile to experience genuine smiles and less time seeing the stars lose their glitter.

Time to settle on the song and dance that makes you feel good. Time to free your mind of

doubts and dance in heaven. Time to apply your own ingenuity into the world without fearing it. Time to go to bed with dreams and wake up with achievements.

If you keep in mind that truth that everybody is wired different, you will realize that it is okay to have different thoughts for your now and tomorrow than your culture or tradition may have destined for you. Time to walk more on faith. Time to clear the path for more. Get your more and be you because there is nothing wrong with being you-tiful. 

I think 2017 is going to be a great year. How about you?

Disclaimer: This post was inspired by a writing prompt by MamaKat blog to write based on a favorite quote. 

In the midst of  listening to an Anita O'Day music collection, I came across that quote and the rest is history.