Change? Grow? Inspire? Motivate? Turn the Page? What will you call it?
Those that know me, know my passion about the ‘language’ we use in our everyday life. Especially those I used to work with, consult with, and my family! 🙂
People didn’t like the word, ‘change,‘ so I would say we ‘Grow‘ because who doesn’t like to grow? We want our children to grow so we know that they are healthy. Us women, we want our hair and nails to grow (most times a lot faster than it does)…Men, they start looking at how tall they can grow, starting from Elementary School on. Everyone seems to like the word ‘Grow’ … but only when it doesn’t require any work on their part.
We expect growth like our hair, our nails, our height because it happens on its own. But when it doesn’t, we don’t have a problem helping it. We buy the best shampoos, conditioners, vitamins, protein shakes; all to help ourselves, grow. We even spend countless dollars on motivational and inspirational conferences to so called “Grow.” Only to go back to work or school and forget about what we learned a few days later because we expect, like those vitamins and protein shakes and shampoos, to do the work FOR us.
I used to share a lot more on social media, on my website; post more quotes. People would look for my “Quote of the Day.” I loved growing so much that even my doctors would tell me to slow down, “You’re going to run your body into the ground, you can’t be Wonder Woman to the World” they would say. I didn’t listen. I even grew so fast that at times I forgot to take a break and realize what was REALLY important in life, what or more importantly, WHO was I growing for.
So, I am not afraid to say it, I tell everyone it; God had a different plan for me. On December 28, 2014, a date that will forever be with me; God decided to force me to take a break. To take a step back. To see the world from a different view point. Do not get me wrong he had done this throughout my life at different times and I recognized each one but again for those that know me, know i am stubborn; and after I would pray to him and all would seem to be going good again, I took off. This time, he decided to take control whether I wanted him to or not. I had a ‘mini-stroke’ or TIA they called it, that day.
But that day was only the beginning because although I gained my motor skills back and I didn’t appear to have permanent long term damage from it at that time; I have yet to have a full 7 day “normal” week since. Since then, I have been diagnosed with POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia), Fibromyalgia, my GI system (digestive system) no longer functions properly, my children have had to see their mother have one too many “Rapid Response” calls to my hospital rooms, my eyesight has recently been affected, and several times a week my children also have to see their mother go ‘unresponsive’ or collapse because some part of my body doesn’t want to cooperate at that moment.
I used to joke and tell people, “I’m fine, I’m not dying if you don’t tell me I’m dying.” And to an extent, most days I still joke about it. Because I do truly believe one of my own quotes and one I do live by “You are either growing or dying, there is no such thing as stagnant.”
So, I choose to fight, I choose to do what I can because I believe that God still has a plan for me and that plan is not up yet. I went from people asking me how I could stay so positive all the time to being the one looking for inspiration and optimism. I was needing help. I don’t let that day or any of my days define me but still sometimes, I too, even have a hard time accepting my new ‘limitations.’
Lately, I have started to talk more to my children again as I used to: about Growth, about Choice, about NOT being ‘stuck,’ about having Faith, not Fear. There is no Fear where there is Faith. Your mind cannot process the two at the same time. Unconsciously it just cannot. It DOES do the WORK FOR YOU on that one! Amazingly without any cost to you! 😉
So, call it Change, call it Growth, or stay Stagnant and Die. It is a choice BY YOU.
A friend that I was blessed to have come into my life sent me this link today. There is always a reason when you choose to be open to them. And I made a CHOICE; a choice to be open to whatever the reason as to why they sent me it. And I watched it. I put aside what I was doing because I trust in them to send me something worth my time. Time is priceless as we all know because it is the one thing we can never get back. Yesterday is gone, tomorrow is the future, and today is a Present, right? So it is up to you but if you trust me, or you just want to pretend for a few minutes that you want to ‘change’ or truly grow in your life, or you are just looking for something to make you smile, reflect, laugh, resonate on; then watch this. I will make a promise to you and I will never oversell and under deliver to you. It will be WORTH EVERY second and you may just realize, as I did that my ‘limitations’ are truly Gifts, and that my new Gifts Do work FOR me and it was time to remember that as well as to, Turn The Page. Go ahead, be FEARLESS!
Thank you, E.
The link is also here if you are having trouble clicking on the words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWSpSU4TZy4&feature=youtu.be