Hi again, I thought I'd express a few comments briefly.
After reading the below chapter, as it is very engrossing and captivating... one of the reasons why I couldn't take my eyes off it, until I actually finished the chapter, was because oddly enough, everything I wrote below, the entire chapter, is exactly, EXACTLY what I have been going through a lot lately. (How strange is it that I stumbled upon it as I did, just opened the book up to any page and started reading, lol) I have had all these thoughts roaming at a gentle flow in my mind throughout each day lately. I have encompassed all these thoughts and feelings recently quite vividly and very REAL.
I have strong feelings about the below chapter because that has been my life lately and it is so filled with adventure and fun. Any of my friends would tell you if asked, that being around me is truly like an adventure in itself. I LOVE Life, I love being happy, I love trying new things, I love challenging myself and especially my own mind and its capabilities and I enjoy daring myself to new heights to see what I am capable of achieving.
Lately I have stimulated my own ambitions and my own day to day trials. Just when an obstacle is placed before me, instead of caving in and giving up... I feel more apt for the challenge! I want to say "OKAY then LET'S HAVE A GO AT IT!" I want to be different, unique. I want to WIN! I want to challenge myself. I enjoy a good challenge and a good game. So I turn my obstacles if-you-will, into a challenging game. I've always loved a good mystery.
It is amazing to me how one is capable indeed of changing the course of any future, all within one's own grasp. One's own mind. The possibilities are endless.
I'm learning on a daily basis how to find the tools to plow through the cemented block placed in front of me, sometimes by my own doing... a natural mental block. We have told ourselves many many times over ages of time... that we are or are not capable of this or that. But what if we switch that/those thought(s)... and tell ourselves, "ah, but I can!"
I have been experiencing this a lot lately... and it works! One truly is capable of whatever one wants to believe and achieve or fail. The power lies within. I believe this whole-heartedly.
What do you want to achieve? What roadblocks have you placed before yourself? Are you willing to remove those roadblocks altogether or even find the tools to plow through them? What are you willing to do, how far will you go or quit? I'm a winner and I'm successful. I have courage and the tools to be brave and strong. WE ALL DO! (within ourselves) BELIEVE IT!! I do. :)
My luv and sincerity,
Christy :)
After reading the below chapter, as it is very engrossing and captivating... one of the reasons why I couldn't take my eyes off it, until I actually finished the chapter, was because oddly enough, everything I wrote below, the entire chapter, is exactly, EXACTLY what I have been going through a lot lately. (How strange is it that I stumbled upon it as I did, just opened the book up to any page and started reading, lol) I have had all these thoughts roaming at a gentle flow in my mind throughout each day lately. I have encompassed all these thoughts and feelings recently quite vividly and very REAL.
I have strong feelings about the below chapter because that has been my life lately and it is so filled with adventure and fun. Any of my friends would tell you if asked, that being around me is truly like an adventure in itself. I LOVE Life, I love being happy, I love trying new things, I love challenging myself and especially my own mind and its capabilities and I enjoy daring myself to new heights to see what I am capable of achieving.
Lately I have stimulated my own ambitions and my own day to day trials. Just when an obstacle is placed before me, instead of caving in and giving up... I feel more apt for the challenge! I want to say "OKAY then LET'S HAVE A GO AT IT!" I want to be different, unique. I want to WIN! I want to challenge myself. I enjoy a good challenge and a good game. So I turn my obstacles if-you-will, into a challenging game. I've always loved a good mystery.
It is amazing to me how one is capable indeed of changing the course of any future, all within one's own grasp. One's own mind. The possibilities are endless.
I'm learning on a daily basis how to find the tools to plow through the cemented block placed in front of me, sometimes by my own doing... a natural mental block. We have told ourselves many many times over ages of time... that we are or are not capable of this or that. But what if we switch that/those thought(s)... and tell ourselves, "ah, but I can!"
I have been experiencing this a lot lately... and it works! One truly is capable of whatever one wants to believe and achieve or fail. The power lies within. I believe this whole-heartedly.
What do you want to achieve? What roadblocks have you placed before yourself? Are you willing to remove those roadblocks altogether or even find the tools to plow through them? What are you willing to do, how far will you go or quit? I'm a winner and I'm successful. I have courage and the tools to be brave and strong. WE ALL DO! (within ourselves) BELIEVE IT!! I do. :)
My luv and sincerity,
Christy :)
12 comments:
Hey Christy
GREAT POST! So inspiring! I am glad you are being true to yourself & sticking to your goals!!
LOVE LOVE LOVE,
MErrianne
p.s. glad you like my scrapbooking :)
((HUGS))
Thanx dawlin' ...yah I could write quite a volume of how the below chapter (lengthy I know, but so worth the time to read) relates with me and my life these days. Maybe I should write a novel on that alone lol. I could. Each paragraph is fabulous and I relate with each one.
One example I'll share with you: When I first started going to the hockey games with T. I didn't really want to go. I could care less about it. But watching T get so excited about the sport, it made me curious. I thought to myself, hmmmm this guy is a very intellectual person and he loves hockey? why? lol.
So I thought well I never see him get so excited about anything and apparently this is what he loves. Granted even when he's excited it's barely noticeable, but I see it. I see the sparkle in his eyes and the ear to ear grin kinda smirk, -there's something there- and there's a reason why this smart guy enjoys this sport.
I want to know why. So I'd go to the games and enjoy being with him when he's so filled with excitement (remember, very minute, most wouldn't even notice his excitement lol) and I love it. So he would explain to me at the games why this or that is happening and how the game works.
So, mentally I could've told myself that I was going to pretend to listen and pretend to enjoy-right? But I didn't, I fought that urge, and told myself even briefly for a moment, NO I'm going to enjoy this game as much as he does... there's a reason why he does and by golly I'm gonna find it and enjoy it too! lol. Even my stubborness can be used for good! LOL.
And by telling myself and believing these thoughts... wholeheartedly... it worked! I now love the sport and still learning so much about it and growing to love it more and more each time. I'm not nearly as much a fan as T is yet, but I do enjoy it a lot more than I ever imagined I would and even find myself stopping for a moment while changing channels on tv, to hear the scores LOL. Who'd a thunk it! LOL.
I could go on and on and on... about this or that experience in which I relate with the whole chapter of The Marks of an Educated Man... I posted below. I hope you read it... or will. It truly is worth the time to read it.
It has so much depth to it... and I was deeply amazed at how much of that one chapter has been a part of my whole life and esp recently.
Even little minute things on a regular basis... in conversations with others.
See, already this comment is getting lengthy lol - but this gal at my work was trying to explain something to me on how to do something. And I told her, ok, so explain to me how you do that... how your mind works that way to see the whole picture. I understand seeing the whole picture, but particularly on this explanation of doing something, while processing a file at work, I didn't understand.
She didn't know how to explain it other than looking at the whole page, the whole picture... so I told her, ok you have a gift! My mind doesn't work that way. (Sometimes if someone else can't explain something, then we personally need to explain ourselves and how our minds work, so I did) I told her that I have a simple mind. I need to follow steps. If I happen to skip a step, I'm totally confused and lost. Additionally she told me, she doesn't use the mouse, that she uses the keyboard more often than the mouse and it helps her with speed.
Wow, I thought, and laughed. I'm a mouse girl. Hmmm, but I love a challenge remember? So I decided to learn how to not use the mouse so much. And that in itself is a mental roadblock. I had to start breaking down the cement wall I placed before myself in my mind believing that I could learn this other way. I want to learn how to do it this way. If it helps her to be faster with processing files, then by golly I want to be faster too.
It hasn't been easy... and I spent an evening at T's trying to do it too. It's funny how we are so programmed to do things a certain way, but if we tell ourselves, "Self, I can do this too!" It's like pushing two negative magnets together and they repel against each other, and yet if you push a positive and a negative magnet together they attract. Interesting huh? I've always been fascinated by this and how this works even in life in so many ways.
So, instead of just brushing off the fact that I don't do things that way... I told myself, hmmm, I'll bet I can retrain my mind to do it too. And I have. It's kinda like that same energy at first as those magnets, it's like trying to push your right arm to go left and it doesn't naturally want to do it, and there's a resistance lol. But if you tell yourself, I can do it, it's easy. Then the arm will easily go to the right a little choppy at first, but then smoothly learns to adapt.
Our minds are like this... we can train ourselves to do anything if we only believe it and attempt it.
These are just a couple simple examples of how I can relate with this chapter written by Albert Edward Wiggam. Makes me want to read the entire book and find other books written by this brilliant writer.
LuvYou,
Christy :)
PS, ART is to be interpreted in many facets, many different ways. Your art is your scrapbooking, and my art is reading/writing. (soon face painting etc) And I love ART of all kinds. ART in general. The art of the mind and how it works! The brain is amazingly fascinating to me. The design, creation, operation in which it works and the many awesum details attached to it. If I'm only using one side of it, or even one small percentage of it, (which I actually believe we use all of it and just don't understand it yet) I want to use all of it and bring it to its highest potential. I believe it is possible, even here on earth or anywhere. :)
Oops in my example of the right arm going left... I meant to write, it's like the right arm going right... lol, I'm still waking up :)
Or like the left arm going left, etc.
ha ha! :) You are great!!!
I love reading & writing, too---just another thing we have in common SISTA! :)
I also love doing makeup & hair & fashion---we are SO MUCH ALIKE! I LOVE IT!!!
We both also like exercising & stuff like that!!! :)
You are awesome and I can't wait to read your books one day!!! I KNOW YOU WILL END UP WRITING AT LEAST ONE!!! You definitely ought to!!
love love,
Merrianne
Yah that makes it so much fun to get know each other better all the more! Funny how much we have in common huh? I so luv it too!
Have a bright and fun day, gorgeous! ;)
Great post christy.. I totally believe it. We are capable of anything BUT we just have to put our mind to it and at the same time take out the "I can't" and "IT's too hard" voices that we get from within or outside sources. If you are trying to accomplish a goal and outside sources tell you otherwise like "you can't do that", "you don't need to do that", "that's impossible", or even "that's stupid" ... that can destroy one's self confidence in trying to accomplish something and possibly make a person a bit iffy of going out of their boundaries of doing something new and different.
I'm all about that fact that a person can accomplish ANYTHING they set their whole heart and mind to it!!!
Again great and inspiring words thanks for posting them.
love
Spencer
Awwww thank you glow bro! I couldn't resist, 'glow' cuz you glow in my eyes! You are awesum!
If we do listen to others' feelings, comments, concerns, fears...whatever... it does break our own personal confidence. I'm living proof of it.
I don't want to hear those types of words anymore. So I'm creating my own positive world and GOING FOR MY DREAMS! I love learning more about those individuals who have gone after their dreams and have made them a reality! It is possible, others have proven it. I'm following my heart and my mind will take me there! ;)
LuvYouSoMuch,
Christy ;)
PS... so would you guys mind if I call Libby -LibNic? It dawned on me the other night, and I chuckled to myself, I thought it would be cute! She's my little LibNic niece! You can tell her I'd like to give her that nickname and that Auntie Christy luvs her LibNic! ;)
Tee hee
HA HA!! that is cute! I will tell her. We were just talking together about how MANY nicknames she has from people.....so this can be YOURS! :)
THe only one she doesn't like is "Liberty". She has A TON, though, and she has officially approved LibNic!! :) She likes it because it uses her 1st & middle name! (Elizabeth Nicole)
YaaaaaYYY! I'm so glad you approve and that luvly Libnic likes it too! ;) I thought it was pretty darn cute myself ;)
Sweet kisses on cheek,
Christy ;)
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