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Showing posts with label motivation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label motivation. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Water Yourself

Thoughts may swirl through the air sometimes that turn your usual upward smiley face into a frown. It doesn’t take a monstrous blaze to notice the embers of doubt coming to fire it’s flames. The truth about you creeps along even when doubt tries to prowl into your system. Don’t get burned; water yourself.




You do not have to frantically search outside for validation. Every exasperating experience does not mean that you have to once again be etched with worry. Resilience usually screams out its sweet words to you and its voice is noticeable because it will start to shower you with good thoughts about who you are. Let that overwhelming sense of love wash over you and soothe what feels lost.

You know who you are. Keeping your mind leveled on the truth easily fixes, soothes and solves. Don’t let lies about your character ruin your delightful heart. You don’t have to yell curses or get angry. You don’t have to let your faith collapse. You do not have to walk around feeling depressed or defeated. Don’t go let out your frustrations on your social media page. There are better ways to handle your situations. Don’t stay thinking that what you are going through is just another sad love song. This is real life.

Instead, find an alternate route. Reach for a pen and a notebook and let the lines be your shoulder to cry on while sitting in a cradle of quietness. Sometimes it takes emptying out what is bottled up inside so you could meet the quiet of your mind; like meditation but only, using writing as the vehicle.




Use your own eyes and heart as your audience and respond to your own situation. How could you have handled it differently? Feedback? What is the next step? How do I move in a better way? What can I learn from all of this?

But while writing, don’t simply stay hyper-focused on the problems, the he say, she says, or the dilemmas. Don’t forget to acknowledge the good things that happened in your life. Root yourself on for standing in resilience. Let out a high-pitched giggle for the things that felt good along the way. You persevered through it all. Remember that! 

Keep creating your own dusts of joy and let it sink in. Keep reaching for the sky and rise up to keep meeting the you that makes you smile.

Know yourself. Love yourself. Honor yourself. Trust yourself. Respect yourself. Like yourself. Acknowledge yourself. Celebrate yourself. Give yourself grace. Germinate.

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Speaking of persevering, I write songs to help inspire, motivate and celebrate the champions that we are in this world. Don't ever let go of the warrior in you. You are powerful. You are more than enough. You got this. Here are a few songs that might help to inspire you along your journey:

I hope that these songs might add some joyous light to your day. Thank you for reading and for clicking on the song titles to listen to my music. Let me know if you actually did listen and if you did, which song was your favorite. Thanks for the feedback. 

Peace and blessings!



 

Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Despite your Circumstances, Smile And Enjoy Life

Do what you’re made for, yes, but then get better and better;
eradicate weakness, yes, but only within strength
Jim Collins



I am infamous for allowing vivid memories of the past, be the thicket of briers that I keep falling into and getting bruised all over again for something that is way beyond the current time restraint that I am in. Imagine being someone who is keeled over exhaustion from running backwards into sobering reminders of yesterday.

So what? I was tattered and torn. Darn scars! So what? I fell victim of my own mistakes. Darn detours! So what? The events of the moment that don’t seem so great stimulate thoughts that can mask a smile. Darn Debby downers! So What? Finances are climbing. Darn bills! So What? The driver next to me just cut me off two seconds off of getting snipped. Darn Road Rage! It has become alarmingly obvious to me that these things are a part of life and you just have to deal with it; plus there have been more good days than bad and the good needs to be acknowledged just as much as the bad! Maybe celebrated even more. 


Today’s clouds can never deny yesterday’s beautiful sunset.
The inconvenience of today’s storms can never turn us from tomorrow’s harvest
Nikki Giovanni



I had the opportunity to perform my original tune, “Enjoy Life” live with the JNote Band and it was a great experience to come before the masses and to do it for the first time and share my story in a song. Sometime it takes encouraging yourself to come to the reality of a situation. Check It out here: https://youtu.be/yW9t5G82i68




I have found out that it is more important to thrive and to grow from these things. I have discovered that falling allows you the wings to fly higher than any bird in the sky. I have come to realize that your thoughts about your own self hold magnitude. It is better to think good about who you are and the possibilities than to stack your plate at the negativity buffet. 

Better to set out with confidence and greet each new day with a welcoming smile. The sun itself is pleasing to the eye and it is easier to take on the world with a measure of confidence and to enjoy life. For what is life without a little spice? A smile might just be that pinch of spice to make your life that much sweeter. 

Thursday, April 6, 2017

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!