ONE ANSWER

 Good morning, 

"What do you want to do with your life?" is a question that we hear throughout a lifetime. The answer is supposed to so simple, a doctor, a lawyer, a fireman, a police officer, etc. When the answer becomes complicated with uncertainty, you become the victim of judgmental ridicule. How can you be unsure about what you want to do with your life? How can you not have direction or ambition? The uncertainty has clouded the ambition because we expect the one clear response. That's what we know, right? What happens when you have that one that is beyond the response? Their ambition is to be the doctor and the lawyer. What's wrong with having more than one answer? What's wrong with being uncertain as to which you will do first instead of only pursuing one? No one said that your ambitions couldn't be beyond the one answer but we have limited ourselves based on expectations. The expectations to be that one great thing in life, when the door has been opened for multiple accomplishments to be achieved. Instead of the judgmental ridicule, where is the embrace for the supportive options? You are not uncertain and you don't have to choose one. Taking all of the thoughts and dreams, write them down, and make it all happen. No one said you can't. No one said there was ONE answer to a question filled with multiple possibilities. Stop limiting your possibilities with ONE answer. The answer is.....everything. 

Season of Life

Good afternoon, as the seasons change, we change. Our leaves turn colors, our flowers wilt and eventually fall, yet we sprout new leaves and flowers each year. The power in growth is a remarkable event to see. Sometimes growth can be a struggle. The lessons learned the challenges faced and the new roads travelled. There’s a journey that we all must take in life and only the strong will survive. There will be many people along the way that will try to tagalong. The friends you believe will be the ones to deceive. Everyone has a motive being able to tell if it is beneficial or harmful is the true mystery. As long as you continue to grow, you’ll never veer off track. You may think you’re taking a shortcut but the lessons you are supposed to learn will hit you no matter which way you go. The people you are supposed to meet will be placed along your path. Not everyone can tagalong. You have to know when it’s time to let go, their time is up and it’s time to move on. Now they have to create their own separate path, you have helped them long as far as you can. Focus on yourself and your next move, not what you left behind. If there was more purpose, it will come back around. Survival of the fittest and you need to be the one on top. You cannot do that without change. Blossom into the beautiful being you are supposed to be. Continue to thrive planting more seeds along the way. The experience of metamorphosis is the growth in life we all live for. Embrace the season you are in and prepare for the next. Do you know your season?

This Thing Called Love

Good morning, this thing we call love is one of the most powerful forces of nature. We don’t understand but we still live through it trying to embrace it. We struggle at times to take a hold of it but it always seems to take hold of us. Love is like a living creature that has to be nurtured for it to grow or it will die before it’s time. If overdone it can also be a waste of time. Love is fragile yet strong. It is one of the most complex things in this world. Always an unanswered question arises. The pain caused and the joy shared. This thing we call love has a mind of its own. Love can be cold and one-sided or warm and blind. We settle and compromise for love but love doesn’t do the same. Love speaks many languages that we do not all speak. Love comes in many sizes and shapes, a jigsaw puzzle we cannot piece together. All in all we fail to see that we give love the characteristics it possesses. We create it and kill it. We possess the key but cannot find the door. Learning within yourself how to love yourself creates a window for someone else to love you as well. Do not settle because love will not make that same compromise. Stand your ground with love and find happiness within the strength you possess. Grow with love not against it or without it. If you are unhappy and don’t love yourself, the relationships you bestow will compliment such. Love should compliment your existence. There’s a game to love that most don’t know how to play and some don’t want to. There’s a song playing but no one can hear the beat. Have fun and dance. Let go, love shouldn’t be so hard. If it’s too hard then it’s wrong. If it has that balance of sugar and spice, then that’s just right. It should feel natural not forced. It should be challenging but not complicated. It should make your toes curl, your stomach flutter and your hands sweat. Play the game, dance to the beat and fall for love, real love that wreck less love.

The Move Within You

Good morning, motivation can be the strongest influence in life. It doesn’t always come from the most obvious places like home. It may come from co-workers, friends and even a song. Through our experiences in life, the motivation is what can make us or break us. Everyone thinks of motivation in a positive light but it can be negative as well. Inspiring to do something doesn’t mean the outcome is in a good light. The friend you believe can be the one to deceive. The family that cares can be the one to tear you down. Again, motivation can make or break you. Motivate in a positive way to bring hope. Motivate to bring yourself the same in return. Motivate to inspire a difference in the world. Influential experiences of life help you to be decisive in the choices life brings. The learning experiences will foretell a story that only you can bring to life. Give of yourself to receive a great motivator in your life to MAKE a better YOU!!!

The Circle of Life

Good morning, have you ever noticed that our lives are built around circles? Look around and open your eyes to the circles that create our lives. We are almost like hamsters running on a never-ending wheel. Some of us tire out where life is cut short. Some of think we’ve made it to the end but there is no end, we made it to our bodies end. Some of us try to venture off but are drawn right back in. When do we decide to get off the wheel and kick it out of our lives? 695 is not the only highway that can take you places. Try 95 it takes you even further. I-40W takes you all the way to Cali but how many will venture? Our paths are not to be a revolving circle. Create a new line of passage in your life that opens new roads of adventure. If you never get off the path how will you experience all life has to offer. Take that leap of faith and jump. Stop settling for what’s right in front of you, stop being afraid of what may happen if you try something new, stop holding back, grab your “balls” and go for it. It’s your life, no one else has to live it but YOU! So who else should be making the decisions? Now don’t be foolish with your decisions. Be wise and cautious but not desperate and immature, as there are consequences within each action taken. Be prepared and stand strong to take on the responsibility that comes with making your own decisions. Nothing is perfect but perfection comes from flaws. Learn the lessons from the circle of life and create your own destiny.

The King's Rule

Good afternoon, we strive for the American dream yet we are still under the rule of the KING. The ‘proper’ way has hindered us from succeeding in obtaining the American dream. However, didn’t we fight a war to become free from the ‘proper’ way? The rule of the King (Queen) should not be able to control our path to success. However, society has adopted these rules and wrote books conditioning us to follow these rules once again. If these rules are not followed, you are considered a rebel, ghetto, without class, etc. Who really determines these rules to be law? How do we succeed amongst the masses without compromising ourselves? If we were to all follow the King, how would we show our diversity that America has prided itself on? The King’s reign is over. No book with ‘proper’ anything should rule your life. We should be able to succeed through our unique ways of being. Success doesn’t come from you knowing how to eat with the proper fork, holding your teacup with your pinky extended, or pronouncing all of your words like a Shakespeare play. YOU not society dictate your success. Plant your seed of diversity and watch it manifest. The King’s rule only looks like it has cultivated the greener grass because there if everyone is following the same way there’s nothing to show a different shade. Let’s lead first and follow last. There are many beautiful shades of green to paint a picture of success. Is your shade noticeable within the picture?

Potential or Capable

Good morning, there’s the possibility and there’s the actuality. Possibilities are not contenders with actualities. Why do we consider the possibility of things instead of the actuality? Having the potential to be or do is not the satisfaction we deserve or should want for ourselves. Allowing someone’s potential to attract us is another way of becoming stagnate. We deserve to be capable to be and do whatever it is we put our minds to. We should attract and be attracted to accomplishments of our future. It should be unquestionable and undeniable. There should be nothing to hold you back or keep you in limbo because you are CAPABLE. Capable is being able to accomplish goals and aspirations sitting before you in the moment. We live in the moment not in the projection of when you will become. Accomplishments don’t always happen overnight but the planning of the accomplishment is still showing your capability. Potential would be just the ignored thought for a later moment of possibility. Ask yourself what thoughts have you ignored waiting on the possibility? Make your own possibilities. Don’t look back on the potential that may have been because that has no bearing on what you have and/or will accomplish. With that being said do you just have the potential or are you CAPABLE?