They tell you to just do it. Like it is that simple. It sounds like it is, but is it?
It is. You just have to switch that do/don't button in your head and do it. 'Just' is a very difficult word. Because 'just' implies that it can be done easily. Which isn't always the case. Sometimes, you need a lot of work before you can 'just' do it. But you have to start. If you want to run a marathon. Someone might say, 'why not? Just do it!' That doesn't mean that you can get off your lazy butt and start running. No, you need training. You need to work on every aspect of you to prepare yourself for that race. But you have to do it. You have to start at some point. Work on yourself. Train yourself for what you really want to do. Your life goal is to have your painting on the wall next to Mona Lisa? You will have to learn how to draw first. You'll have to learn how to use your brushes. But you have to start. Just start! Is your goal to lose weight? Mine is. I have to take my lazy butt off the couch and into the gym. And I'll have to eat better, walk more, ... I'll have to train myself: my mind and my body before I'm able to change and lose that weight. Whatever your goal is, short or long time goal, you'll have to start. You'll have to do it. and yes, just do it, applies everywhere. Because if you don't start now, you'll regret it tomorrow and you will still have to do it, tomorrow! Get up, just do it and make a change so you can live towards your goal! confession: As I'm writing this I am trying to come up with a good excuse so I don't have to go into the city right now. I have to pick up a few things but I really don't want to go. I've been avoiding this since Thursday. I believe it's time to take my own advice on this one and just do it. Time for me to eat my lunch, change and leave. I just have to go. Simple as that. I didn't even realize this at first. That's the first step. Realize that you have to do it. If you avoid it now, you'll have to deal with it later. So best just do it now. Share your thoughts/experiences in the comments. Talk to me on social media. Or email me by filling in the contact form. Just go for it, just do it,... Stop making excuses.
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We keep staring at what we want to have in 5 or 10 years. We keep thinking of who we want to be in 5 or 10 years. Which is good! But we can’t forget that we’ll always have that. We’ll always have that idea of who we want to be, 5 or 10 years from now. But this very moment, this very precious moment, shouldn’t be forgotten. We’re preparing ourselves to be that person, now. We should make the best of ‘now’ because ‘now’ doesn’t come back after this. Don’t spend your whole life thinking about the future. Because there will be a day that your future you will think back about the you right now and regret not making the most of today. We need to find balance. We need to work towards our goals for the future but we should also make today the best day of our lives. And tomorrow we should do the exact same thing. Being happy is not even that hard. I’ve spend years and years thinking about what it would be like to be happy. I kept thinking that it would come with a great relationship or good friends. Well, it didn’t. Nothing made me happy. Not happy enough at least. I could have fun; have the time of my life even but it didn’t make me happy. One day I just looked at myself and told myself I wanted to be happy and I was going to make sure I would. So I started working on myself. I started praying more. I tried to become more positive and I became happy. I saw an old friend a few weeks ago and she heard that me and my boyfriend broke up. She knew, from earlier conversations that I wanted to marry him. When she asked me how I was doing, I couldn’t help but smile. Not because I was happy that we broke up but because I chose to do what was going to make me happy in the long run. Of course, the whole situation sucks and I’m really, really hurt but I know that in a few years I’ll still know this was the right decision. The reason I told you that is because a few years ago, before I started Straight Thinking, every little thing that happened in my life, would hold me back and would make me depressed. I didn’t know what it was like to not be depressed. I just had a few good days. Sometimes it were just a few minutes or an hour or two. Even though I’m still hurt, I’m able to put the pain aside and focus on what’s good in my life. I can keep thinking about the day I won’t be hurting anymore and how happy I’ll feel then, but if I don’t work on being happy now, I won’t be happy then. Being happy comes from within. If you don’t work on being happy, if you don’t treat yourself the way you should, nothing’s going to change. Take yourself on a date. Even if it might make you uncomfortable to sit at a table in a restaurant by yourself. Fight through it. Because at the end of the day, you only have yourself. At night, when the whole world is asleep, you only have yourself. Be your own best friend. It will make everything so much easier for you. Making new friends will no longer be a job. Keeping friends will no longer be difficult. If you’re truly happy, if you’re truly happy with yourself, you’ll be able to solve a lot of issues that seemed impossible to solve before. You deserve to be happy. You deserve to enjoy each and every day. Not like it’s your last. No, make plans! Plan your future but keep looking around you instead of straight ahead. The reason I started #MyWeeklySpecial is because I wanted to stop and ‘smell the roses’. Feed yourself with health. – Healthy foods, healthy relationships, healthy entertainment. If it doesn’t make you feel better, let it go and look for something else. I was just thinking about this scripture and I wanted to share it with you. Proverbs 17:22 “A joyful heart is good medicine, …” Please share your thoughts/experiences in the comments or talk to me on social media.
Or send me an email by going to the contact page. Be happy What’s happening to the world? The world we live in is falling apart. I wonder what it will be like when I’m no longer around.
What will our children have to endure? What kind of horror will show up at their doorstep? Or will it die with us? Will they see that it doesn’t have to be like this? Or will we just pass the torch to the next generation and the next, until there’s nothing left to burn? What’s happening around us? What happened to the love we had for one another? When I was a kid, it was ok to play outside and we knew if something would happen, there would always be someone there to try and stop it. The kids these days will grab their phone to record a fight, leading up to somebodies death, instead of stopping the fight and saving a life! What’s wrong with these children? Is it their parents who should teach them better? I think it is. We need to wake up now and do something about this because our children don’t teach themselves, they learn from us. SO IT IS UP TO US to teach them better! It’s the previous generation of parents who raised children with zero tolerance for people who don’t live or think like them. We’re still living in a racist world. We’re still living in a world where people can’t just walk the street without fearing for their lives. When is it time for us to start thinking for ourselves? When will we finally GROW UP and figure out why we are so bitter towards our neighbor? Why don’t we care about the things that happen in the so called third-world-countries but cry and pray when the same thing happens in a city we all would love to visit? Why do we still call them third-world-countries but refuse to give them what they need to become… better? People are dying because they don’t have enough to eat but we refuse to give up that extra scoop of rice so one of them can have it. I’m so sick of logging on to Facebook or Instagram or turning on my TV, only to see so many more have been killed; so many more have been raped; so many more families broken up and crushed because of the cruel actions of another human being. Why can’t we just stand up and change? Each and every one of us? We’re lazy! It doesn’t affect ME or MY family so why would I go out of my way to help somebody I don’t even know?
But we don’t want to be that good Samaritan. You know what I think? We’re selfish and the only way for us to care is if we would have to live in the horrible situations we refuse to acknowledge! The only way we will ever stand up for a race that’s being discriminated is if it were to happen to us and our family. The only way we will ever stand up for the women who get harassed and raped is if it were to happen to us or our mothers; sisters; daughters. The only way we will do anything for someone else is if we can relate to their pain. But how big is the chance that we will ever have to wake up in a war zone? How big is the chance that we will ever wake up in a dark alley with our drawers on our ankles without a clue of how we ended up there or what happened? How big is the chance that you will ever feel scared to walk on the sidewalk in broad daylight? We do this! We ruin people’s lives by not doing anything about it when we know we can. I’m just sick of this and I wish I would pack up and move somewhere to the middle of nowhere. But then I’d run away from it too and I’d refuse to help the ones who need help too. Share your thoughts in the comments or talk to me on social media. Use the #StraightThinking. Or email me by filling in the form on the contact page. I started redecorating the house today. I started with the messiest room. The room I hardly ever use.
I don’t use it because I never really have people spending the night and if they do they can also sleep on the couch. So the room just became a storage place for all the stuff I should’ve thrown away months ago. At first I felt great. I emptied out the whole room, moving everything to the bedroom, living room or kitchen. Then I started moving the things that I needed to be in that room, back in. I felt great. One down, the rest of the rooms weren’t so full anyway so it would be done really quickly. But then I turned around. I kind of forgot that I still had to clean all of the junk out of the living room, bedroom and kitchen. All I could see were three big piles of… stuff. But then I took a closer look. I already knew where half of it had to go. Some things I could even throw away immediately. So with that out of the way, all that was left were two boxes with old stuff I had to go through and some clothes. It almost brought down my mood. I almost started to regret ever starting on this. But I didn’t let it keep me down. Instead, I decided to take a moment and sit behind my desk that I just cleared. It might have been the only clean room at that time, but it was something. The biggest thing I had to do was now done. So now I could focus on the smaller things. I’ve tried redecorating before. But I start in all the other rooms first because I’m avoiding this one and when I’m done with everything I just skip the last one because I don’t want to start over. If you’ve tried something multiple times but it doesn’t work, try using a different method. Start where you would normally end. It’s not the solution for everything but if it doesn’t work, try something else. Or be prepared to keep bumping into that same wall. If you can’t figure something out, look at it from a different perspective. It’s the only way. Doing the same thing over and over again will bring you the same result over and over again. I’m almost done. I just have to do some laundry and take out the trash in two (or three) trips. But then I’m done. If I would’ve started in the living room, I would’ve given up eventually and next week I would try to do all of it again, probably without success, again. Trying something new won’t ever hurt. It will only help. Please share your thoughts/experiences in the comments below. Or talk to me on social media. Or email me via the contact page. Have a good week. Don’t forget your #MyWeeklySpecial |
AuthorMy passion is writing. I started writing stories when I was only 6 years old and I still do it today. Blogging is something I've been wanting to do for a long time, so here we are. Archives
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