A journey from here to there ... and how I'm getting there

"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely."  ~Auguste Rodin Every chance you take on life provides you with a lesson, one you can either choose to learn from or ignore. Ignoring the lesson put in front of you leads you blindly down the next path, which will only lead you back to the same fork in the road. Taking the time to really see the lesson and what it's value is on your life will take you to the next path you are to be headed down. How do you handle your lessons? Do you embrace them and learn from them or do you ignore them and continue down the path to come back full circle only to wonder why you keep having the same thing happen over and over again? The change you wish to see begins with you and only you. No one else is responsible for your choices. Embrace your lessons. Walk blindly no more.

"You haven't seen a tree until you've seen  its shadow from the sky." ~Amelia Earhart Ever feel like you've all of a sudden been escalated to Cloud Nine? That feeling of pure euphoria, like nothing, can bring you down? If you have that feeling now then you are probably constantly smiling, having positive thoughts, and have a little bit of pep to your step. Being on Cloud Nine does not have to mean you are delusional or unrealistic. It just means that you have gotten rid of most, if not all, that causes you discomfort and stress. It means that you have been able to step back from your own situation and see it from a different vantage point. I have recently been thrown up on Cloud Nine, without so much as a blink of an eye and *poof*, there I was. Just when I thought it to be impossible, reality hit me. HARD. I have gotten everything I have asked for this year, perhaps even a bit more, but when you stop to look at things from a completely differe...

"Choices are the hinges of destiny." ~Pythagoras You have choices. Every day, many a choice are placed in front of you to decide upon. Even when you choose to not make a choice, you are, in fact, making a decision. The choices you make ultimately affect the overall outcome of your life. They lead you down one path, then another, and another, until, eventually, you end up at that pivotal fork in the road that most people dread. It is here, at this fork in the road, where you have either learned from the lesson that had been presented to you and you turn left where a new lesson will be presented to you, or you turn right, again, only to be faced with the same trials and tribulations of an unlearned lesson.  The choices you make are what make you who you are. They are what others look at to make the judgment on you. Your choices build your character, even if you don't intend on it. Be the person you want others to know you as and the choices you make will ...

“If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet,  you'd best teach it to dance." ~George Bernard Shaw I saw this quote the other day and fell in love with it. We all know how hard it is to keep secrets about ourselves under wraps, partly the reason why I am such an open book about my life. There are just some parts of life people wish to erase, but why? This has forever been a question in my mind. Why not try to learn from the occurrence? Why have a heart full of regret and a head full of secrets? Freud believed you could gain insight by making your unconscious thoughts conscious, meaning by repressing certain occurrences and making yourself believe they never happened, you are doing yourself a great disservice. In most cases, bringing to light the reasons behind what happened can often bring you to a place where you can live with the occurrence. He believed the treatment process for many depressed and anxiety-ridden beings was to go through a psychoanalytic...

"If you scratch some saints you will find the devil." ~Austin O'Malley We all have a good side and a bad side. There's no point in trying to hide that fact. What is important is which side we CHOOSE to have on prominent display for all to see. The choices you made in the past do not necessarily have to mean you are still that person today. And there's no point in regretting those choices either. There is a lesson in every choice you make. Your past, whether good or bad, has made you who you are today and the choices you make today will determine who you evolve into tomorrow. There should be no shame in having made poor choices in your life. Every person has made at least ONE poor choice at some point during their life and the person who tells you otherwise is probably the biggest offender who just doesn't want to admit it. But when it comes right down to it, if you have a bad side you wish to keep at bay, don't hide it, don't run fr...

“The secret of life…is to fall seven times  and to get up eight times.” ~Paulo Coelho I believe wholeheartedly that with every fall there is a reason to get back up. A reason to start fighting again. Even when you feel defeated it is important to continue to get up. As with everything in life, it is often questioned "Why is this happening to me?" when the question should be "What is the lesson is this?" It is not the why, but, the what. What is the lesson? What do I see? What can I do differently this time? What will I be able to take from this situation and take to the next? Life is a never-ending path connector. One path leads you another, then another, then another, etc. Sometimes you end up going back down the same path, sometimes you end up at a fork in the road and both of these situations pose questions that you need to answer for yourself. No one can tell you the answers to your life path, only you. Some people can help guide you, but the answ...