Walking By Faith and Not Feeling

Walking by faith and not by feeling. This past week, I’ve been in the middle of the battle between faith and doubt. What do you do when on one side you know which road you want to take, but then you wonder if that road will truly lead you out of the forest into the clear. What do you do, when the team you want to cheer you on, is cheering for the other team? Maybe secretly expecting, hoping that you fail because they gave up on their dreams a long time ago. How do you keep going when there are more needing you than there are helping you.

Life Key: Keep Your Eyes On What You Seek Instead of What You See.

You are more than what you are going through. On your path, there will be lots of open road with coastal views and sunsets. But there will also be winding turns, bumpy uphills and maybe unpaved terrain. If you stop, well you already know how that ends. It’s when you keep going that you often discover that you had more in you than you realized. That you can go further, accomplish more, achieve beyond what you initially expected of yourself. All around may appear to be the end. It may look like you are trapped in a desolate, barren place. But you have to adjust your vision to the horizon beyond your current location.

Sometimes you are the only one cheering for your team. How do you remain motivated when you have to encourage yourself? Stop waiting on the feelings to line up with the mission. Keep going despite how you may feel sometimes. Keep praying. Keep doing the things that got you going in the first place. Do those things even when you don’t “feel” like it. Don’t quit. Don’t allow frustration to invite bitterness and defeat to the party. Face it, deal with it head on and then find a way to get going again. Do Not pack up frustration, heart break and discouragement to take with you on the journey. Deal with it, let it go, and move forward.

This week was difficult for me. I wanted to say “why bother”… but then what? Quit? Go back to a life of unfulfilled dreams and hiding behind the walls of fear and insecurity? Once you taste prime cut steak, its hard to go back to frozen, cheap cuts of meat. So, I take back up my journey. I’m not waiting on feeling like it. I’m moving on and the feelings will have to catch up with me.

Your turn:
Are you dealing with something in life that you have given up on?

Did you try to strike out and maybe you didn’t get the response you expected? As a result, you allowed frustration to make you quit? Will you try again?

This time just might be a keeper. Keep moving forward. Erase the period, and make it a comma. You can do it. You already know the life waiting on you if you throw in the towel and go backwards. But, remember your best victories are still up ahead.

Philippians 3:12-14 AMP
“Not that I have now attained or have already been made perfect, but I press on to lay hold of (grasp) and make my own, that for which Christ has laid hold of me and made me His own. I do not consider, brethren, that I have captured and made it my own; but one thing I do forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize to which God in Christ Jesus is calling us upward.”

Bliss and Blessings!

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Key Verse ~ May 22, 2012

Our Key Verses today were submitted by you, my great community of world changers. One of the verses was submitted by a great blogger over at http://somersaultingthroughlife.wordpress.com/ …pop over and follow their blog! Tell em Indi sent ya! Awesome wisdom that we should all behold. Record these Verses in your journal or on mobile cards you keep with you for quick reference. Learn them. Review them often. Blend them into the fabric of your daily mantra.

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“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference”

“Be yourself, everyone else is already taken” ~Oscar Wilde

Seven Rules of Joshua Hugh Wooden:
1. Be true to yourself
2. Help others
3. Make each day your masterpiece
4. Drink deeply from good books, especially the Bible
5. Make friendship a fine art
6. Build a shelter against a rainy day by the life you live
7. Pray for guidance and counsel, and give thanks for your blessings each day.
~ Coach Wooden

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Inspired By You!

Good morning. Today I want to hear from you. What is your most inspirational quote, Bible Scripture or inspirational short passage? Leave a comment below. I will be posting mine throughout the day. I will pick 3 submissions from my followers to include in our Key Verses next week. Can’t wait to be inspired! Bliss and Blessings!

Free Still Has A Value

Hello all. I was away yesterday attending an unexpected blurp in my schedule. Please excuse my absence. Ok, so did we write out the list of feelings towards our future? Seeing that truth staring at you, how did you feel? Encouraged or like “why even bother?”

Well, today we will address that person we were introduced to in Monday’s writing reflection. Are you ready to live a life of power and purpose? Yes of course
you are. But how to pick yourself up and fight on despite any negatives operating in your life.

Life Key: Free Still Has A Value

Pick one thing you do well and do it for week like its nobody’s business. Throw in a little extra for free so you will feel like a saint. You may or may not get a compliment, doesn’t matter. Keep going. Give it all you’ve got as if you’re being paid top dollar for it. Then each night reflect on how great you felt and floated doing that one thing.

For one week, master only that one thing. Perfect it. Brand it. Own it. Do it so well that even if someone were to pay you, they wouldn’t be able to afford its value. Then at the end of the week, reflect on how taller and bolder and sure you feel. You can’t put a price tag on that. There is no way to lose that feeling unless you throw it away. This is BLISS! Welcome to Destiny.

Now take that inspired action and confidence and apply to every single, solitary task you touch. if it doesn’t fit your purpose, it doesn’t deserve your energy. You ARE greatness. Plain and simple. Its free, because its already inside of you, but only you will determine the value that others will place on it. Now go live the life you deserve. Its waiting on you. Bliss and Blessings.

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The Walls Have Voices

Writing Exercise this morning. “When I think of my life and my future, I feel: (continue writing EVERYTHING you feel).” It its important not to list a bunch of events. No, this exercise is to focus on how you feel or fear about your future. Are there doubts, insecurities, or walls that need to be addressed before you can move forward?

Do you truly believe you will have your dream life? This is point A. If you don’t truly believe, then it will never happen for you. Although greatness is waiting for you right on the other side of the mountain, and it was tailor made for you only, if you don’t BELIEVE, you will never have what is meant for you. That is powerful! Mind blowing almost. You hold the key! And your belief is the first door. You’re not waiting on destiny. Destiny is waiting on YOU! WOW!

So get writing. How do you feel when you think of your future or destiny. You can keep it in your journal. I keep my writings because I always like to look back at the former me once I make progress in an area. Or if it makes you uncomfortable to have such vulnerable information on paper, you can rip it up if you like. But write it. This is an important key.

Tomorrow, we will learn how to help that person we meet in our writing exercise today. Ok, get writing. Stay encouraged. If you need to visit Key Verses as a pick me up, please do so. Leave me a comment below, to let me know what doors are clicking open for you. Remember your best victories are up ahead. Bliss and Blessings!

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What Would Mac Gyver Do?

I was watching archived videos from my mentor. I noticed how the videos from the beginning of his career were not the nice quality that I enjoy with his current series. The messages were a little choppy, the sound was not the best. But he kept making the videos with one purpose in mind, live your dream no matter what. Work with what you have. This is our Life Key for today.

Life Key: It’s Time to Mac Gyver-fy Your Dreams

Mac Gyver (the tv character) would find himself in these jams and needed a way out. With a simple paper clip and a stick or a piece of discarded tape lying around on the floor, he would figure a way out.

What do you have right now, that on the surface may appear to be scraps and fragments leftover, but if you applied them, holds the capacity to usher you into your new life? What parts of your dream, your faith, your resources can you build on just to get started?

No, it may not be perfect with all the bells and whistles, but you will get to that eventually. If you will not despise your small beginning, there is grand waiting for you. My daughter is saving up to purchase an acoustic guitar. She will do odd jobs for any amount. She is known for saying, “I noticed your closet needs organizing. I will do it for you for $2.” Or “If I vacuum your room, will you pay me a dollar?” We fall for it because we don’t want to do the chore and her rate is a bargain. The other day she was counting this big roll of cash. I asked her where did she get all that money? She said, “oh here and there.” I asked how much she had, and lets just say, a dollar here, two there REALLY adds up!! She is not despising her small beginnings. Her focus is the end result, not the little she had started with.

So what do you have that you previously assumed were scraps, that can begin to add up if you see it as your launching pad? Whatever you’ve lost has nothing to do with what you have left. Your best is yet to come. So what if its not perfect, do it anyway. So what if you are a little rusty and out of practice. Go anyway. Here is a video link to inspire you to Mac Gyver-fy your life. Now go get it!! Bliss and Blessings! And Happy Mother’s Day to all my awesome Mom supporters!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX_ZrmD2OVo&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Got Power?

Good MORNING! My phone battery died last night, out of no where. I left my charger at work and all of the stores were closed. So my phone was temporarily out of service for the night. This morning I grabbed my phone to take with me as normal. My daughter said, “Mom, your phone is dead, but you’re carrying it like it still works.” Before I could answer her, my son replied, “her phone power is dead for now, but as soon as she plugs it up or fix the problem it will work again.”

Life Key: Fix it, Plug In and Get Going!

Just because you allowed life, disappointment, regrets, people, low self esteem, (fill in the blank), to kill your dreams, does not mean you need to discard them. The power is still there, you still carry that hope and dream around with you. It hasn’t lost its capacity to perform. You just need to connect to the right sources, fix the blocks you’ve erected and get powered up again.

Everything you need is still right there inside of you. You haven’t lost it. It is NOT too late. Plug in to the main source. Open up and check around inside. Do you need to purge some social circles? Choose fruit over cake? Devote time to your craft instead of television or social sites? Forgive? What is the issue inside of you that is hindering the progress outside of you?

Let’s ask the hard questions so we can get on with a life filled and overflowing with power, life, joy, peace, love and purpose. Don’t you deserve it? Weren’t you created for it? My phone did not cease to be a phone just because it had no power. It was STILL a phone. You are STILL the phenom you were created to be. Plug in, fix the disconnection…now let’s go! Bliss and Blessings!

When’s Day

Psalm 126:1 AMP:

“WHEN THE Lord brought back the captives [who returned] to Zion, we were like those who dream [it seemed so unreal].”

This is my meditation scripture this week. That first word jumped out at me. WHEN The Lord… Usually I would just read over this, but this time it stuck out and waved its hand at me. The verse is describing a blessing, a miracle so great, they could hardly believe it was real.

Life Key: Can You Stand To Be Blessed?

Does your life look like someone ready to be blessed? Do you talk blessed? Are you preparing to have an entirely different life SUDDENLY? At any moment, your life could change. Are you ready? Every morning your expectation should be, “Today something great is going to happen and I can’t wait to see what it is!”

The word WHEN indicates, it will be. Marinate your faith in that promise. Not if, or just in case, but WHEN! So wake up each morning ready, on point, expecting this to be your WHEN’s Day! I love it!! Go forth believing and you WILL receive. Bliss and Blessings!

Are You Ready?

Good Morning all! Keeping it real simple today. Get a pen and paper to write this one down.

Life Key: Are you ready?

If you have been applying these principles, then there should be a whole lot of clicks going on in your life. Those doors should be popping open left and right. But are you ready?

When you’re about to give birth, things begin to change. You think different. Your sleep pattern changes. You want different food. Your social circle changes. You start to gravitate more towards those that look like where you are going. You are pregnant with a miracle. You talk different. You make others talk different in your presence. Because destiny is in your belly. Are you hearing me?

So I ask you…are you ready? At this point if you are applying these principles, there should be something different in your expectation, in your hopes. Are you ready? When you begin to feel different, you act and talk different. You are expecting different. These are indicators that the delivery date is growing close. Are you ready? Have you prepared your life for destiny’s blessings? You don’t wait until the baby arrives to have the shower, and prepare the space. No, you plan ahead for what is growing inside of you. Are you ready?

You are about to birth greatness! Prepare! Get in the position!  But understand this, the only way your miracle will not come full term is IF you have been a reader only and not a doer. Bliss and Blessings!

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Key Verses~ May 7, 2012

Good morning. Welcome to your new week. One new week closer to your new life. What are your positive affirmations? How do you use them? Do you post them in your car or on the fridge? Keep them in a book? I post mine on the fridge and bathroom mirror. I also write them out on index cards and keep them clipped on a ring. The pack stays in my purse. Whenever I need inspiration, I just grab the ring and flip through.

Here are more Key Verses to add and use daily. Share your affirmations with us in the comment field below. There is power in numbers. Bliss and Blessings!

Key Verses:
I have great, long lasting success in everything I AM connected to.

Divine guidance causes me to do an exceptional job daily.
Opportunities and advantages come with each door that I open

The positive advantage is always mine.

I attract only lucrative, enjoyable and beneficial circumstances

I will always have more than enough

Success and good fortune flow toward me in a river of abundance

My personal experiences have strengthened my faith muscle

I am a powerhouse when it comes to pursuing my dreams

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