Success.......

The word success is just a word to so many of us. We go through life focusing on different ways to exist but not to succeed.

Success in life comes when you simply refuse to give up on your dream. When your goals are so strong that obstacles, failure and loss acts as motivation.

So many of us won't make goals because you think it takes to long to accomplish them. There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs, one step at a time.

Success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success. If you are doing something that you love to do, than you are successful.

A successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it happen.

Always remember, that it is difficulties that gives birth to miracles. Success is not always what you see.

              "In order to succeed we must first believe that we can" author Nikos Kazantzakis

I AM GOING TO SUCCEED!!

Weeding Out Life's Garden

We all get busy throughout our lifetime not noticing the weeds that are growing in our garden of life. Those weed are people and things that we gathered throughout our growth in life.

Sometimes, we must just stop and look at those people and things that we let fill up our life. Some of the people are beneficial and others are slowing our growth.

Take a look at the things and people around you and determine whether or not they are  encouraging and promoting you or just stealing your strength ,emotions and growth. Like weeds in a garden, some people needs to be weeded from that garden. This process allow the flowers, being you, to grow stronger.

Everyone that crosses your path is not a friend.  Some people just attach themselves to you and hinders and steals your happiness.

Some weeds can look just like flowers but they are stealing the nutrients from the real flower and that flower dies. 

In our daily life we need to stop and take inventory of the people that are surrounding and influencing us.  Those people that help you follow your dreams and walks along that bumpy road with you are truly your friends. Sometime the biggest mistake you can make is letting  certain people stay in your life far longer than they deserve to.

Those people who just attached themselves to you and they make no contributions to your growth needs to be weeded out.

Weeding out your garden will help get rid of the stress caused by the people that are not very supportive in your growth.

Yes! Life get's busy, but take the time to respect yourself enough to walk away from anyone or anything that no longer serves you, grows you or makes you happy.

There comes a time in life when you have to let go of all the pointless drama & the people who create it (weeds). Surround yourself with people who makes you laugh so hard that you forget the bad and focus solely on the good. After all, life is too short to be anything but happy.

" There comes a time when you have to stop crossing oceans for people who wouldn't jump puddles for you." author unknown

WEED YOUR GARDEN!!!!

THE LOSS OF A CHILD

As a parent the love you get from a child or children is priceless. That love is so honest and strong I truly believe it could move mountains, ok maybe not mountains, but surely a parent's heart. 

Having  a child is more than just bringing life into this world, it is a human being that comes to you with a blank slate and allows you, as parents, to teach and form that's child's behavior.

As a parent you are always doing your best for your child, teaching them right from wrong. Showing them love not hate, helping them to become the best person they could be. 

What happens if that child is taken from you suddenly by an accident? Since they have become such a large part of your life how do you continue to live without them?

Do you give up and die with that child or do you remember the love and pleasure that child gave to you and the world?

Although, it would be an awful thing to happen to you, losing a child, it would be divesting to just allow yourself to give up your life.

By giving up it means, there would be no one around to share with the world the joy and happiness that child brought into the world. To share the pleasure, truth, love and life that was born.

Nothing is more powerful than a child's love, which continue to live with in your heart. The love of a child will always be there for you, as long as you continue to remember that love and joy your child gave you.

Healing after the death of a child takes a lot more than just time. it's not as easy as that, it takes a great deal of HEART work. So, if you have lost a child, be gentle on yourself and take all the time you need, please Don't quit!

"You can do the impossible, because you have been through the unimaginable" author Christina Rasmussen

REST IN PEACE, MARGARET!

LETTING GO....

There are things and people in our life that we know we must let go of. We will put off changes in our life because it is just to hard to re-direct our steps.

Forgiveness and letting go are the main steps to get on the road to happiness.

There comes a time in everyone's life when you need to step back and re-evaluate the direction you are going in. Take a look at the steps you have made toward your dream and how many more you have to go. What changes you have to make and how do you make those changes.

Sometime you need to look at the people and things in your life and make a honest decision, if they are helping or hindering you from your dream. Not all people in your life are meant to stay.

You've traveled on the road toward your dreams for years and collected things and people along the way. You get to a fork in the road and have to make a decision whether to hang on to the things or people that are not encouraging you and are just concern for themselves. Has the things or people that you collected along the way helping or hurting your future travels.

The purpose of "LETTING GO" is to make the travel lighter to ensure you will accomplish your goal. Letting go is hard but sometimes holding on is harder.

If you think of life as a garden of flowers and sometimes that garden get weeds and stifles the growth of the flowers.  You pull the weeds out of the garden so that the flowers will have room to grow and won't have to share their nutrients with something as selfish as a weed. By removing the weeds this allows the flowers to blossom and grow within themselves.

So, why would you allow things or people to continually steal the nutrients in your life.

Don't let your garden of life be destroyed because you are to afraid to let go of the weeds.

"Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go" author Hermann Hesse

BE FREE!!!

Don't Live a Zombie's Life!

Zombies are described as dead corpses that drag around grabbing living people and draining their body of blood, in order for them to live. The purpose for them doing this is to exist they are not livinig. No matter what, they are DEAD.

Don't be someone that drains the life from others just to exist. Have goals, dreams and a direction that will keep you alive not just living others dreams.

Don't just go through life hanging on to others existence, living their lives, doing what they do and forgetting your own.

Make sure that everyone you deal with in your life is someone to encourage you to grow and follow your dreams. There are so many zombies in this world that will just drain you of your desires and wants. They would like you to be just like them, just existing not living.

Living a full and exciting life will keep you from being one of the living dead.

Be the hunter not the hunted. Take control of your life, make it matter. Don't let anyone drain you of your future.

"If someone is strong enough to bring you down, show them you are STRONG ENOUGH to get up" author unknown

Stay Stong!!

Beautiful You!

There are 1,000+ different products on the market that claims to make you beautiful, younger and energetic.

These products promise that once you use them you will be wrinkle free, have a younger appearance and help you feel great about yourself.

I am here to tell you that beauty come from the inside. What you feel and show from the inside is what will reflect beauty on the outside. Beauty is being real with yourself, not what you put on your body. You need to except yourself as s beautiful person and others will see your beauty too.

The difference between pretty and beautiful is; pretty is when your outer appearance looks good, beautiful is when one shines from the inside.

Stop thinking so much about your physical appearance, yes! it is good to be healthy, but that is not what makes you beautiful. Your physical appearance will age and change throughout time.

Turn your thoughts to the inside of your body and that beauty will never grow old and it will enhance you more each day.

Being the best possible version of yourself inside and out is what makes your beauty shine through. Beauty is more than your physical appearance.

Beauty is in the EYE of the beholder, so let us behold ourselves with both EYES and see the love you have for yourself and the beauty will shine through.

"One day I decided that I was beautiful & so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl. It doesn't have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see." author Gabby Sidibe

STAY GORGEOUS!! 

VISIONS OF YOUR LIFE

We are all born with a blank slate for our life. It is up to us to fill that slate with dreams, hopes, desires and love.

As we go through life filling that slate with dreams, we should be able to alter those dreams as we go, not forget them, just change some parts of that dream without losing our vision.

Your visions for the future might not be easy steps to make, but continue stepping is a must in order to make that vision a reality.

We all should have some kind of vision of where and what we want. Some type of ambition to shoot for.

Just don't be a person that sits there and let life past you by or let life determine your future. We all have the ability to become what we vision for our life, if we would just take control of our steps.

A lot of things happen in our lifetime that we have no control over, but we shouldn't let life's circumstances change the steps for our visions.

We all have the power, within ourselves, to become and create what we vision for our life to be.

Are you stepping in the direction you want to go or are you just sitting on the side lines letting things in your life take control?  

You take control of YOUR life and stop letting life have that control. Vision what you want, feel it, live it and step toward it. Hold the vision, trust the process.

" Vision is not enough, it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the stairs, we must step up the stairs." author Vachav Havel

I SEE YOU (VISION)!!

REMINISCING.......

We all have done this in our life, sat and reminisced. To sit and recall good things that happened to us in our past.

We experienced good and bad happenings in our lifetime, but we have a tendency to only reminisce the good things that make us smile. 

Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters. As we look back into our past and remember those happier times and friends we spent time with. makes us feel good,

Sometimes it's not the person you miss, it's the feelings and moments you had with them.  When someone you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure. People change but memories donot.

A good friend know all your stories, but a best friend has lived them with you.

Memories are a timeless treasures of the heart. So, as we move forward and create new and exciting memories let us remember to enjoy the journey as we travel through our lives.

  "What takes us back to our past are memories. What brings us forward are our dreams."  author Jeremy Irons

REMEMBER!!

Being Loved!

Love is an intense feeling of deep affection for another.  Being loved by someone is the most powerful emotion that exist in the world today. One who can give love will receive love in return.

When someone loves you with their whole heart and soul it can make you feel like you could conquer anything.

When you look at the emotion, love, it is always about sharing your heart, mind and soul with someone or something.

When you start losing control of your feelings, when your thoughts are always about that individual, when that call you receive makes your face light up, when you hear their voice and it makes you smile this is called "LOVE." It is undeniable, uncontrollable, irresistible and unconditional.

Don't be afraid to open your heart and receive the best gift that you will ever get in life and that is LOVE. Love is a beautiful gift, one that we sometime lose because we are afraid to open our hearts and minds to something different.

    "The greatest gift that one can give another is unconditional love. It's the only thing ultimately that really matters"   author  Joy Gardner

OPEN YOUR HEART!!!!

Remembering Our Freedom

Once a year we remember those that have sacrificed their lives for us to be free, that is "Memorial Day".

Freedom is something we should remember all year long. The freedom to come and go as we please, to make your own decision, to work, to love or just do anything we want. Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness.

"Memorial Day" is the day to appreciate all the fallen and honor their bravery. We can do this all year long by appreciating what the fallen has given us, by not wasting a moment of this glorious freedom.

Have a safe and happy "Memorial Day" and remember those who have sacrificed their lives to allow us to live ours.

                   "FREEDOM IS BEING YOURSELF WITHOUT PERMISSION" author unknown

Celebrate Freedom!!

Resetting Your Direction

Sometimes when we look back on our life we wished we made different choices along the way.  It is never to late to make changes in our life.

It isn't  always about trying to fix something broken but it is about starting over and creating something better. Remember, there is a difference between giving up and starting over. The  difference between a good day and a bad day is your attitude toward that day.

What screws us up most in life, is the picture in our head of how it is should be. Change your thoughts and that will help you change your direction.

Looking at the changes you have made in your life and note that you haven't gotten there yet but you are closer than you were yesterday. 

To help you reset your direction in life, surround yourself with doers, believers and thinkers. Most of all, surround yourself with those who see greatness in you when you don't see it in yourself.

    "if you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change you will get results." author Jack Dixon

STAY FOCUS!!!

The Human Touch

In this fast information age it is so easy to text or email people daily. We sometimes forget a simple embrace or conversation with each other.

When you personally give someone a hug or embrace you are sharing a sense of joy. To be touched and hugged by another human being is like sharing your emotions and love with them. Being embraced helps both of you release happiness and fulfillment in that moment.

When we go through life and don't take the time to hold and embrace someone you love, you are denying yourself and that the person a human connection. Don't become so technical that you allow a computer to communicate and express how you feel.

Take a moment and give someone you love a hug and then go back to your technical world. Share yourself with someone and feel that joy of being human for a moment, emotions and all.  

So, if you are so fortunate to have a mother that is close by, run over and give her a hug and tell her how thankful you are to have her in your life. Thank her for all she has done and is still doing for you.

For those of us that don't have a mother close enough to hug, just call ,don't text, and let her know how much you appreciate and love her. That will leave her with a loving feeling she will carry all day and further.

For those of us whose mother is no longer in our presence, sit down for a few minutes today and think of all the hugs and kisses she gave you throughout her lifetime and how many more she would be giving you today. That should make you feel like you've been touched by an angel (MOM).

On this " Mother's Day" I wish you all to experience the human touch from someone that you love.

To all the mothers, I want to wish you a fantastic "Mother's Day" and hope this feeling today will touch your heart and stay with you today and always.

            "There is nothing as sincere as a Mother's kiss" author Saleem Sharma

Happy Mother's Day!!!!

Spring Cleaning the Mind

Every spring time we do spring cleaning to our homes. Getting rid of all the clutter and things just lying around.

When was the last time we spring cleaned our thoughts. Getting rid of all those negative thought that actually serves you no purpose. Those negative thoughts that have build up all year long.

Those thoughts of not being able to fulfill your dreams, buy that car, purchase that home. Those negative thought that hold you hostage to unfulfillment. Those thoughts need to be replaced with positive and loving thoughts.

The one thing in life we can count on is loving ourselves. It makes it easy for us to be positive.  Positive thoughts are NOT enough, they must be followed up with positive feelings and positive action. That is called spring cleaning the mind.

We can all have a perfect day by going to bed with a dream and waking up with a purpose.

Take control of your thoughts and make them work for you. Don't let all the negativity in the world get all cluttered in your mind. Spring clean on a regular bases and watch how thinking positive thoughts and behavior can give you a crisp, unclutter love affair with life. Positive thoughts generate positive feelings and attract positive life experiences.

Make room for a fresh new start of your life every day and see how a clear, uncluttered head can help you move forward in a  positive way. If we remember to have a positive mind it will produce a positive vibe and that will lead you to a positive life.

           "I am too positive to be doubtful, too optimistic to be fearful and too determined too be defeated" author unknown

Talk to me!!! Let me know one positive thing you will do this week to start spring cleaning your mind!

STAY POSITIVE!!!

Loneliness......

I am sure that we all have experienced the feeling of loneliness at one time or another. The definition is stated as being isolated ,empty, abandoned, solitary, companionless. I am sure that there are many more words that can be used to explain loneliness.

One can be in a room full of people and feel alone because they are not connecting with others or their emotions. So they might find it hard to communicate how they feel or what they want. Loneliness is a state of mind that you have tuned your thoughts to.  

Sometimes the person who tries to keep everyone happy is the most lonely person. Their life might be in a constant battle between wanting to be alone but not wanting to be lonely.

You will never be lonely if you learn to befriend yourself. Change your mind set. You are your best friend so rely and depend on yourself to make yourself happy and fulfilled. At some point, you have to realize that some people can stay in your heart but not in your life.

Loneliness is designed to help you discover who you are, and to stop looking outside yourself for your worth. Sometimes you have to stand alone, just to make sure you still can.

               "Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self"  author May Sarton

LOVE YOURSELF!!!!

starting Over!

We have all made mistakes through out our lifetime, but the nice thing is that everyday allows us new opportunities. Every morning we wakes is a new day to make a difference, maybe it's not always about trying to fix something broken. Maybe it's about starting over and creating something better.

Today is not just another day. It's a new opportunity, another chance, a new beginning, embrass it. Never give up on yourself, just when the caterpillar thought her life was over she begin to fly. Stay away from what might have been and look at what can be.

You can't start the new chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one. A new day has started let's make something of this day. 

Every second brings a fresh beginning; Every hour holds a new promise; Every night our dreams can bring hope and Everyday is what you choose to make it. Don't waste it.

                       "NEW BEGINNINGS are often disguised as painful endings."  author Lao Tzu

The BEST IS YET TO COME!!

Positive Thinking

We all have a tendency to have negative thoughts, that's OK because we are all human. If you continue to allow negative thought to grow inside of you, it will take you to another level in your life that you really don't want to be. Who wants to be miserable on a daily basis? Who wants to be upset emotionally for a long period of time? No one does.

Negative thoughts robs you of the beauty in the world, clouds your judgement and makes you miserable.

Everything in your life happens for a reason. Be thankful for the bad things in life, for they open your eyes to the good things you weren't paying attention to before. Things may be happening in your life because you might need to make some changes, take a look at the direction you are traveling.

Everyday may not be good but there is something good in everyday, if you would just take the time and look for it. When you think a positive thought in the morning it could change your whole day for you.

Just because something isn't happening for you right now doesn't mean that it will never happen, think positive. Don't waste your time looking back on what you've lost, move on, for life is not meant to be traveled backward.

  "an arrow can only be shot by pulling it backwards. So, when life is dragging you back with difficulties it means that it's going to launch you into something great." author  unknown

 HAPPY IS A POSITIVE EMOTION!!!!! HAPPY EASTER!!!! HAPPY PASSOVER!!!

Dare to Dream

We all have dreams in our lives that we would love to see come true. Money dreams, relationship dreams, traveling dreams, having fun dreams. Dreams are what  keep our hopes alive and our actions are what turns those dreams to reality.

A dream is a seed that is planted in our heart waiting to be pursued and brought to life. Never stop dreaming and believing that your dreams will come true. Some dreams are easy to accomplish and there are some that seems like they are never going to happened. Doubt in a dream or yourself just feeds negativity and negativity destroys a dream. The more positive thoughts you have in yourself and your dreams helps that dream to grow and become reality.

The belief in yourself is what makes your dreams become real,that is the food that feed those dreams and makes them grow. Don't dream your life, live your dream.

Hopes and Dreams are like teardrops in the rain, they get lost in reality. So we must make sure that we continually shine love and positive thoughts on all our hopes and dreams just to make sure they don't get lost in the raindrops.

"What takes us back to the past are the memories. What brings us forward is our dreams"      author Jeremy Irons

Dare to Believe in your Dreams!!

My inspirational Moment

I wanted to say thank you to all of you that came out to help me introduce myself and leave you with an inspiring message.

Your support is what will carry me to the next phase of my journey.

As I mentioned today that big changes in your life are made with small steps, today was a small step that created  a big change in me.

"many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart." author Eleanor Roosevelt

Thanks for the footprint!!!!

True Reflections

Do you believe that what you see in the mirror is a true reflection of yourself or just an image shown externally to others? Your true reflection comes from your heart.

Whenever I come cross an amazing quote I enjoy sharing it with you. I have come across an amazing statement that I would like to share with you now:

  An amazing thing happens when you get honest with yourself and start doing what you love, what makes you happy.  Your life literally slows down. You stop wishing for the weekend. You stop merely looking forward to special events. You begin to live in each moment and you start feeling like a human being. You just ride the wave that is life, with this feeling of contentment and joy. You move fluidly, steadily, calm and grateful. A veil is lifted, and a whole new perspective is born.

"The world is a  looking glass. It gives back to every man a true reflection of his own thoughts." author Thackery

THINK POSITIVE!!

Staying True to Yourself

Sometimes in our lives we want to accomplish more for ourselves and we begin to change to fit that roll. We want so much to be excepted by others that we sometime forget who we are and what we really want to accomplish.

Always stay true to yourself because there are very few people who will always be true to you.

If you are being true to yourself and it isn't enough for the people around you, than change the people around you.

Don't change to make someone else happy when that change is making you sad, you are the important one in this equation.

It doesn't mean anything what people think of you, what matters most is what you think of yourself.

Where there are choices to made, make the one you won't regret.

             " you were born an original don't die a copy." author John Mason

TRUST YOU INSTINCTS!!