No Judgement Zone

No Judgement Zone
What would it be like to go through your day without putting any kind of judgement on anything, be it a situation or a person?  Could you do it? Could you last all day without passing one single judgement on someone or something else? What about yourself? Could you go one day without thinking something judgmental about the person reflected back in the mirror? 

When we place judgements on other people, especially ourselves, we allow negative and toxic energy to rule us. It's that simple. If you allow that into your space you also allow that into your heart. It's easy to pass judgement. We live in a world that feeds on it. Ultimately though you know better and you don't have to subscribe to that way of thinking nor acting any longer. The more you can be open to yourself and others, the more peaceful your life will become. You don't have to struggle, you don't have to fight, you only have to just...be...and that's more than good enough.

Center

Center
We are all searching for our anchor, for our center, for our place of peace and purpose.  We tend to look outside of ourselves to feel whole. We try and find it in other people or things only to be disappointed time after time.  Trying to find your center in something outside of yourself will never work.  Has it yet? So stop. That's right just stop. It's time to go inward. It's time to do the hardest work you will ever have to do and that's finding your center through you. It's there and it's always been there. You've just decided that going outside was easier than going in and guess what, you are right. But you will never get to a place of real inner peace without turning in, feeling everything you've been afraid to feel, getting real with yourself, seeing everything for what it truly is - especially your own behaviors - and that's when you will get to your center. It may seem a bit scary but what's even more scary is living a life without ever finding you. It is now time and you can do it. Dig deep, find your beautiful core and let that bring you the peace you long for.

Breakthrough

Breakthrough
Our greatest breakthroughs can happen at the most unexpected times.  They usually occur at the worst time actually or at least that's what we think it is but in reality it's the perfect time. It's when we are feeling broken that we are at our most vulnerable place which means we are also broken wide open and can receive true clarity, blessing and lessons from whatever situation we are facing. It's hard to see it that way when we are in the midst of the storm. When we are walking through the pain we sometimes can only feel the hurt and despair but if we allow ourselves to open up enough, we will see how this can be a game changer in our lives for the better.  Maybe it puts us back on our path of living up to our highest potential.  Maybe it happens so that we can find ourselves again. Just remember that no matter how hard life might shake us, we will not break; rather we will breakthrough.

Ten Gallon Love

When you are a 10-gallon person and you want love, you want it on a 10-gallon level, but if you fool around and hook up with a pint person, they could be giving you all that they have -- sincerely giving you everything, but it doesn't fill you up, because you're bigger than that.

~Bishop T.D. Jakes

Ten Gallon Love
You deserve love that equals the kind of love you give out. If you love with every fiber of your being, you need someone who also loves with every fiber of their being. Too many times we end up falling for someone who, for whatever reason, can only give "pint" size love. That's all they have to give and yet you stay for too far longer than you should. But when you know you have a great capacity to love, when you feel it pouring out of your soul, well you owe it to yourself to allow someone in your life that feels it just as much as you do. Why settle for a smaller amount of love than you want or rather than you need? It's like ordering a small size smoothie when you really wanted a medium. It really doesn't satisfy you and although it's what you ordered, you know from the beginning it's not what you needed. It's time for you to be loved on a ten gallon level!

Be You

Shine with all you have. When someone tries to blow you out, 

just take their oxygen and burn brighter. 

- Katelyn S. Irons

Be You
Have you ever been around someone that just didn't care what other people thought?  Maybe they were singing loudly in the subway or better yet, they were walking down the street dancing to their destination. They are enjoying life; taking in every single second and making it their own. They have a deeper understanding that life is to be enjoyed, it's to be marveled at, and the more you can be true to you - well the more fulfilling life will be.  

Stop hiding to the world who you are. Stop trying to be someone you are not. Embrace every part about what makes you...well you! Live every day authentically. Do not live it for others or even worse, live in a state of waiting. There will never be enough time in the day, enough money in your pocket, the right time to go back to school, the perfect time to leave your job or the best moment to move. If you heart is telling you to try something, to travel somewhere, to be more creative, to find more peace and joy in your life well by all means this is your time to do it.

It's time to start being congruent with what you feel and who you truly are. It's your time to shine. 

Ride the Wave

“I've learned life is a lot like surfing. When you get caught in the impact zone, you need to get right back up, because you never know what's over the next wave......and if you have faith, anything is possible, anything at all.”

~Bethany Hamilton, Soul Surfer

Ride the Wave
Have you ever watched a surfer? They must become one with the ocean in order to be successful. They must feel the current and act on instinct in order to catch the perfect wave.  When they do, they allow the wave to dictate where it takes them. They don't try and change the direction of the wave for they can't.  If they get knocked off their board, they go out and try again. They wait patiently for the perfect timing...

Life is like surfing. If we try and dictate it or force something to happen before the perfect time, it will throw us off the board. Once we surrender to it, once we allow our instinct to come through, once we decided that we will go with the flow, well then we can enjoy the ultimate ride.  

Should vs. Are

Soul is about authenticity.  

Soul is about finding the things in your life that are real and pure.

~John Legend

Should vs. Are
You spend way to much time worrying about what you "should do" rather than embrace who you truly are.  You look around you and see your friends owning a home, having kids, painting that white picket fence on the new house they just bought and you think that's what I should be doing too but that's their story not yours.  Yours may look different and guess what, that's OK! You don't have to do things just because you feel you should be. If you try and be someone you are not, well that life won't fit you and you will be just as unfulfilled and unsure, even with all of the "shoulds" around you. It's time to fully embrace who you are, what you want out of this life and what you want to give to the world. There are no apologies you have to make for being you. When you know what you want, whatever that looks like, don't look back - just go for it. The world will tell you a thousand times over what you should be doing but there is only one person you need to listen to and that's the voice inside telling you that you are going to do this differently.  Stop letting people should all over you and find your comfort in who you truly are.