To Be Or Not To Be

As you look forward to what you hope to accomplish in the upcoming year; hopefully in addition to looking forward, you have also spent some time looking back and reviewing some of the things you have done that work and some things that have not worked. I have this interesting habit I started several years ago where every 3 to 6 months I try to stop and take a look at where I am and try to evaluate what I need to change as well as what I’m willing to change. Please note I said willing to change. For I will be the first to admit there have been some things that I have seen about myself that I know I need to improve upon (i.e. exercising, eating better, etc) and like that new sweater, that I didn’t really need but I have bought, I take it out look at and then I very nicely fold it up and put it back in my closet. So, I confess I’m constantly warring with myself to be changed or not to be changed. Yes, I admit there are days when I’m SMH at myself.


Believe you me, I know how easy it is to let myself go through a whole year patting my self on the back for all the good things I have done and feel perfectly comfortable closing the closet on the things I don’t want to deal with. Ironically some of those things I don’t want to deal with so often are at the root of the things causing me frustration about goals I have not reached. Yes, all those little things that are taking up space on the surface may not seem like a big deal, but over time I have discovered when I keep piling stuff in my closet and not cleaning out the stuff I don’t need I begin to not have room for the things that I do need. So often that is how our personal, physical, spiritual and emotional lives are.

I remember once when I was very young one of my aunts took me on a trip to an amusement park. I was super excited because this was my first trip to a big kids’ amusement park. The second ride we went on was the Merry Go Round. It seemed like so much fun and then I got on the ride and I got sick as dog. My poor stomach and head could not handle that slow ride, going round and round in a circle going no where. I don’t’ think I got on another ride the rest of the day. I can still remember thinking about how much fun I missed out on all because I couldn’t figure out how to get off that dag on merry-go-round. Why am I sharing that story? Simple that ride taught me a very important lesson about life and that is sometimes no matter how pretty or safe some things look if all they do is go round and round in a circle and takes you nowhere don’t be surprised if eventually it makes you sick. It has been a long time since I got on my first merry-go-round and I have learned a lot of things since then. One of them is eventually the ride will stop you just have to know when to get off the ride when it does.

Listen facing and dealing with the things we have tried to ignore or keep buried is never easy but trust me in the long run dealing with them is for the best. Some things in your life are not going to change until you change. So let’s make a pack let’s promise ourselves to take a mental, spiritual and physical check of our closets. Don’t be afraid to clean house. You don’t have to wait to Spring to start your cleaning. Let’s start now, because the sooner we address and clean out those things that cause us clutter, distraction and aggravation the better off we will all be.


Yaskew
Positive Thought Of The Week

What Do You Want?

Postive Thought For The Week....

What Do You Want?

“What do you want” is made up of four little words, but it can mean so many things to so many different people. How many times in life have you been asked what do you want? And how many times have you ever stopped to think about how powerful those four little words can be.

Answering the question for yourself might make a big difference in how your life will play out this year and moving forward. It can be the difference between your 2013 being just like your 2012, 2011, 2010, etc. You get where I’m going. Or this year can be the beginning of things changing and evolving in your life moving forward.

So here is what I would like to you to do, starting now. I want to challenge you to take some time in the next few weeks and sit down and write down five things you really want to happen in your life and/or change. Now writing them down is only the first step, but remember you have to start some where. What is important is that you stop making excuses and you start.

Once you have done that stay tuned there is more to come.

By Yolanda Askew.

What is Right?

Is it more important to be right or is it more important to do the right thing?

WHAT IS IT YOU REALLY WANT

Some people truely want help. While other people only want attention. Understand this when your desire for attention is greater than your desire for help nothing in your life will ever change for the better.

Who's Strength

God does not ask you to do what He has called you to do in your own strength. If you are feeling overwhelmed stop and take a look at who's strength you are working in yours...or His. Remember His word says, "I can do all things through Christ who strengtheneth me." Philippians 4:13.

Make it a blessed.

The Truth

I had a friend who just kept texting me and he would text me what seemed like every little thing that he thought was relevant. I finally had to send him a note asking him nicely that some things are better in email and I let him know everyone doesn't have unlimited texting. :) LOL It was something we ended up both laughing about but because of this circumstance it inspired me to share this with him and reminded me that there is a lesson in everything we do.

XXXX you know me I try to be honest with you and hope the truth brings us to some sort of resolution rather than avoid a person and leave you wondering what might have caused the rift. We are all shaped by our experiences. I have dated guys who were not always truthful about certain things up front and I told myself I would try my best in life not to do the same things to others. Nothing frustrates me more than when I realize I have made a decision not based on the truth. Usually the subsequent consequences of those choices leave me in a much worse place than had I known the true facts. I may not always like the truth but at least if I have it I can with the Lord's help stop compounding the mistakes. Just remember every one who makes bad choices is not always because they have no regard for the consequences, sometimes people make the choices they make based on the truth as they know it in that moment.

I Am Purpose

If you don’t believe that you are here for a purpose, the enemy is not going to disagree with you. The Lord will touch and agree with who He has called you to be but the enemyl will do every thing in his power to keep you in the dark. A lot of times others will see in you what you don’t see in yourself. Even when you hear the call sometimes fear will keep you paralyzed and stagnant.

Some people are wondering why they can’t get the right job, can’t get the promotion, they can’t get the house, why they can’t meet Mr. or Mrs. Right for me. It’s simple he or she or it is not hanging out in your unreleased potential. They or it is moving and operating in your activated purpose.

You should tell yourself this every time you are tempted not to walk in your purpose, “If I miss my purpose because I am stuck in the past then I have created the atmosphere of disappointment that comes from unfulfilled promises.”It isn't always what I want.
but it is always what I need.

YMA