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Find Your Strength In Love......

While working in my studio, I set my Pandora station to Whitney Houston and for the first time since I sang with my church choir in the 5th grade, I  really listened to the words of "The Greatest of All". Fast forward......while working I kept singing (attempting to sing, lol) ......." find your strength in love......."
Of course many years have passed and the song has a much different meaning........I have learned a lot obout strength, circumstance and love. And of course, I must share!!!!! lol!!!!

Finding your strength in love can not be done without first, loving yourself.  Accepting your self and all of your flaws, knowing that you can change anything for the better, no matter what it is.  Loving yourself first means not compromising what you really feel.  Otherwise you operate and make decisions based on an untruths and the outcome you are going to get is pretentious, because that's what you gave....In this world, you get back what you put out!!!

Be positive in your thoughts. Make it a habit to celebrate the good in you.Acknowledge your best efforts and be grateful of the things you have accomplished in life. 

Stop criticizing yourself and berating yourself.  Every one makes mistakes, but remember its not in your fall, its in your get up!!!!

Stop worrying.  YOU CAN NOT CONTROL EVERYTHING.  Do what you can and surrender the rest.  There is no pill, no drink, no drug, no sip, no food, no person that you can turn to that can solve your problems....When you are finished with the above, the problem is still there, while you have added another uncompromising issue.

Be forgiving and generous to yourself first.....

 

When you love you first, you value your own opinion first and your are unihibited by what others think. WHEN you don't love you first, the opposite occurs. The question is, what do you say about you!?!?!? and what ever the answer  is, if you don't like it FIX IT!!!!

I decided long ago, never to walk in anyone's shadows
If I fail, if I succeed
At least I'll live as I believe
No matter what they take from me
They can't take away my dignity
Because the greatest love of all
Is happening to me
I found the greatest love of all
Inside of me
The greatest love of all
Is easy to achieve
Learning to love yourself
It is the greatest love of all......that's your strength!!!!

(picture me singing this to you....) FIND YOUR STRENGTH IN LOOOOOOOVVVE

...( OH YEAH, I HIT THE HIGH NOTE!!!)

XOXOXOXOXO

Silly of Me

Electric Blue Jeans Philthy Ragz
Black and White Tunic Philthy Ragz
Black Cropped Jacket Philthy Ragz
T-Strapped Pumps Sam Edelman 

Did you know that original meaning of silly meant happy or blessed?  Ever since I was a little girl, my family called me silly, my uncle used to tell me that when I walked into the room my personality just had a way of brightening up wherever we were, and made people laugh, when truth be told, I wasn't  trying to!

I was just naturally being me! But little did they know that I was actually in a painful place.  At school daily I used to get teased about my forehead ( as you can see, its pretty bold!) the gap in my teeth and the "weird" way that I dressed. Although all of the kids around me would laugh and tease me saying mean and hateful jokes and I would hate it, but suffer in silence, because I knew no one at home would understand.  I knew they would just say toughen up, it doesn't matter what people say, and just shrug it off, because of course I'd heard that thousands of times, right?!! lol

In hindsight, my soul had its own way of bringing light during any situation,  I didn't understand that I truly had the ability to create my own happiness.  I didn't realize I had this bounce back kind of thing going on at such a young age and my that my "silliness" was my own way of bringing inner peace and  joy,  It  was what helped  me to continue to get up and face challenges every day.  Through challenges that I thought were monumental at the time, I had this kind of skill that we all need to use today, that NO MATTER WHAT,  I AM GOING TO HAPPY!!! I AM GOING TO ALWAYS HAVE  CHALLENGES, BUT I CAN STILL BE HAPPY!!!

To this day people still call me silly, but now I don't mind! Now I hold onto the original meaning of the word, blessed and happy.  I hold in my heart that the very things I thought I would not be able to endure, the teasing  about my look and the way i dressed, are the very backbone to a thriving business today! 

So wherever you are, whatever your doing and whatever you are facing, create your own happiness.....The situation will still be there and  people are still going to talk regardless, but don't let that steal your joy. Stolen Joy equals stolen power. And as my uncle said, shrug it off and keep it pushing, you still got to do what you got to do!!!

"Happiness is not a matter of good fortune or worldly possessions. It's a mental attitude. It comes from appreciating what we have, instead of being miserable about what we don't have. It's so simple?yet so hard for the human mind to comprehend." - Bits and Pieces

"I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances."  - Martha Washington

xoxoxoxoxoxo