Being grateful all the time isn’t easy. But it’s when you feel least thankful that you are most in need of what gratitude can give you: perspective. Gratitude can transform any situation, It alters your vibration, moving you from negative energy to positive. It’s the quickest, easiest, most powerful way to effect change in your life – this I know for sure.
What I know for sure is that there is no strength without challenge, adversity, resistance, and often pain. The problems that make you want to throw up your hands and holler “Mercy!” will build your tenacity, courage, discipline, and determination.
Do things you’ve always wanted to do. You are the single most influence on your life.
Become the change you want to see – those are words I live by. Instead of belittling, uplift.
What I learned for sure was that holding the shame was the greatest burden of all. When you have nothing to be ashamed of, when you know who you are and what you stand for, you stand in wisdom.
Because this I know for sure: Who you’re meant to be evolves from where you are right now. So learning to appreciate your lessons, mistakes, and setbacks as stepping-stones to the future is a clear sign you’re moving in the right direction.
French philosopher-priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
From that day forward I resolved to continually ask myself, How am I making things more difficult than they need to be? Your answer to that same question is the next step in your path. It’s that simple.
We go through life discovering the truth about who we are and determining who has earned the right to share the space within our heart. And now I simply want to share what I’ve been given. I want to continue to encourage as many people as I can to open their hearts to life, because if I know anything for sure, it’s that opening my heart is what has brought memory greatest success and joy.
I know where my lane is, and I know how to stay in my lane. My lane is evolving the consciousness of people.
Whenever I’m faced with a difficult decision, I ask myself: What would I do if I weren’t afraid of making a mistake, feeling rejected, looking foolish, or being alone? I know for sure that when you remove the fear, the answer you’ve been searching for comes into focus.
As long as other people’s opinions matter more than your own, you’re owned by them. You’re not even free.
Every decision, setback, or triumph is an opportunity to identify the seeds of truth that make you the wondrous human being you are.
What I know for sure: There is no need to struggle with your body when you can make a loving and grateful peace with it.
No matter what challenge you may be facing, you must remember that while the canvas of your life is painted with daily experiences, behaviors, reactions, and emotions, you’re the one controlling the brush. If I had known this at 21, I could have saved myself a lot of heartache and self-doubt. It would have been a revelation to understand that we are all the artists of our own lives – and that we can use as many colors and brushstrokes as we like.
The whole point of being alive is to become the person you were intended to be, to grow out of and into yourself again and again.
Here’s how I see your weight – it is your smoke detector. And we’re all burning up the best part of our lives.” I’d never thought of it that way before, but it was a true aha moment. My weight was an indicator warning, a flashing light blaring my disconnection from the center of myself.
It’s been found that if you wake up every morning and practice saying three things you are grateful for – they have to be new each day – by doing this for twenty-one days, even people who were testing as the low-level pessimist on average were now testing as low-level optimist.
Your life isn’t about a big break. It’s about taking one significant life-transforming step at a time.
Value yourself more.