It feels like all I have been doing is fighting lately. Trying to keep a positive attitude. Fighting with lazy. Duking it out with fear.
I have been fighting my way out of bed. I have been fighting through emotions. I have been fighting with everything and everyone to keep my dreams intact.
Fighting so hard is exhausting. I almost wanna say, forget about it and walk away. I can’t. My dreams mean too much to me. I want to see what they look like. Fulfilled!
I shall keep fighting. How about you? Keep giving it everything you have. We shall win in the end.
asking for A Friend, Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: I wanted to quit many times. I refuse to quit. the battle is one or lost in the mind. I tell myself to keep going. I tell myself to be encouraged. I tell myself to keep standing on faith and not fear. I keep telling myself the truth. I can and I will. So will you.
The circumstances may have turned hopelessly wrong.
It won’t be because I didn’t try!
Everyone may have given up on the project.
It won’t be because I didn’t try!
The relationship may have not worked out.
It won’t be because I didn’t try!
The friendship may have ended.
It won’t be because I didn’t try!
I may have lost everything.
It won’t be because I didn’t try!
Life happens, beloveds. Good things. Bad things. Tough things. Unfortunate things. Fortunate things. Too many things to name here.
Whatever happens, beloveds, don’t allow yourself the victim role. WE determine how to respond with what happens.
WE determine what we shall DO with what happens. WE determine what our attitudes shall be with what happens.
Don’t allow yourself ONE excuse this coming year! Enough of that!
If you lose, so be it. Just be certain you haven’t lost because you never tried!
Get up! Get going! You’ve got thangs to do in 2025!
So what things didn’t work out as you thought this past year. So what! Get over it! Get over yourself!
I tell myself this EVERY day! Get over yourself, Cassandra! You’ve got thangs to do THIS year.
We CAN, beloveds! We WILL!
asking for A Friend, Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: I am looking forward to 2025. 2025 has NO idea what I am fixing to do within it!
Keep moving FORWARD, beloveds. Use these last days to leave 2024 IN 2024. Don’t take the mistakes with you. Don’t take old fears with you. Don’t take old beliefs with you.
Deal with YOU in 2024 so you can enjoy a fantastic 2025. Be done with holding YOU back. Forgive yourself for all you have done or not done. Life is much too short for you to continue lambasting yourself for your current position.
Be encouraged. You ARE on the right path. Yes, it has taken much longer than you had hoped. Yea, you have gotten in your way more than was helpful.
Yet, you fight on. Celebrate your try. I admire you. You keep going no matter what. Know that you are seen. Your efforts SHALL amount to something. They already have.
I DARE you to pursue your dreams relentlessly. Come on. We have thangs to do.
In case no one has told you today: I love you. So does He.
These have been some hard days. I have made them much harder, at times, by my attitude towards what has happened.
I have pouted. I have sulked. I have given up. I have started over. Rinse. Repeat.
That said, I have been learning how to get up more quickly. I have been pouting less. I have been praying more.
Living through all of this hard, I have learned that our attitude really does determine our altitude. I have had many highs and many lows. The lows have come from not believing in myself and the gifts that God has given me. The highs have come when I have been standing 10 toes down on my FAITH.
I have learned a great lesson:
Just because things are hard, does NOT mean they have to be miserable! I can’t believe I spent so many years having a fit about what happened, instead of dealing with what happened. I added so much extra time going around. mountains. I didn’t have to because I was too busy whining and complaining about having to go through hard times.
Keep going through your hard time. The time will pass before you know it. Make sure that you come out the other side. Strong, successful and joyful. You will make it to the other side!
rooting for you, Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: Don’t waste another moment. Life is short. Life happens. Do what you can with what you have. Enjoy your day. Create as many moments as you can. We don’t know how many moments we have left.
When will you start believing in yourself? That’s what God asked me. Yikes.
I’m working on regaining confidence in myself. I don’t know why I have looked at my age and decided I can’t do things. I never used to do that. I’m fighting my way back to myself. Age is nothing but a number.
In the meantime, I’m doing the best I can. It’s all I can do. I hope it’s enough. I pray so.
In your meantime, beloveds, believe in yourself. There is more to you than you have allowed to show. Trust yourself. I let yourself explore all that is within you. You’ll be surprised by what you find. Let the world experience all that is you. We have been waiting for you.
asking for A Friend, Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: Keep on believing. Life has great things in store for you. Go find out what those things are. You may be the key to my dreams being fulfilled. I may be the key to yours. In the meantime, let’s encourage one another and love one another, shall we?
Never again allow your feelings, your circumstances, your whatever to stand in your way!
If you lose, be sure it was NOT because YOU gave up!
You don’t need a cheering section. Get out there and give it your all. You may lose all. So what?! The important thing is the TRY.
Try.
Try again.
Try some more.
Rinse.
Repeat.
asking for A Friend, Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: The world will jeer you, taunt you, and mock your try. So what?! You keep trying. You SHALL be rewarded. What shall your reward be? Tell me after you have won. Remember:
You are worthy.
You are worth it.
You are worthwhile.
Take things ONE step at a time. One day at a time. I cheer you on. 📣
Ack. It seems like all I do nowadays is start over. I guess that’s a good thing. We can start over as many times in the day as we need to.
I made my Christmas chili. It had been many months since I made chili. Life has not been funny. I have not been in the mood for much. that have been fighting with myself to continue keeping on keeping on. I have not wanted to. I need to.
I did not want to fight with Christmas this year. I wanted to enjoy it. I told myself I would enjoy it. I told grief it was not welcome this year. I made a plan. I told myself I would get up early and get my Christmas chili made. I got up early. I made chili. I turned on music. I reached out to my siblings. I did the opposite of what grief wanted me to do.
I’m working on some pieces so I can enjoy the football games come the weekend. The competition has not been great. In fact, many of the games have been horrible. Mom and I would have spent countless hours lamenting over the awful football. I’m going to enjoy watching awful football with mom in my heart and on my mind.
Be encouraged. If you’re going to a hard time just now, that’s OK. Give yourself permission to process. I allowed myself a day or so just to stay in bed and feel sorry for myself. Then I got up and kept it moving. I have things to do. So do you.
Don’t let the heart keep these from being your best days. I have been watching and listening to old videos lately. I have enjoyed them. I’m getting back to enjoying just being. I’m taking my focus off of trying to find a job and just focusing on what I currently have in my life. Life is more than work.
Remember that you can always begin again. You can start Day 1, again. And again. As many times as needed.
Try not to give yourself a hard time, because you have to start over so many times. That’s what erasers are for. It’s not how many times you start. The most important thing is that you finish. You will finish. Be encouraged.
Keep doing what you know. Keep giving it all you’ve got. Don’t worry about the outcome. The outcome will take care of itself. The only thing you need to worry about is growing. Make sure you’re not growing bitter or disappointed. Disappointments will happen. Life is full of them. That’s OK. Just make sure you remain the positive person that you are.
I never knew that hard could be so damned hard and long could be so damned long! Yet I am still here. So are you.
If you have fallen down, get up again. Don’t judge yourself for having fallen. It happens to the best of us. It WILL happen to all of us, at some point or another.
This is our time as new beginnings. again. How many times will we have to start over again? Who knows? Who cares? Start over as many times as you need to.
asking for A Friend, Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: I’m still getting over being mad about having to start over again at my age. Starting over sucks. I guess I should have said that a more tasteful manner. No matter what you do don’t give up. You have too much to accomplish for that.
Don’t allow your circumstances to tell YOUR story.
Don’t allow the enemy to tell YOUR story.
Don’t allow your family to tell YOUR story.
Don’t allow friends to tell YOUR story.
Don’t allow your job to tell YOUR story.
Beloveds, only YOU can tell YOUR story the way it was MEANT to be told. Only YOU have lived through your experiences. Only YOU have overcome the things in which you have overcome.
Don’t go the way of the world in being swayed by this, that and every other thing. Make up your own mind. Tell YOUR story. YOUR way. In YOUR words.
Beloveds, you do NOT need another’s permission to do and to be you. Enough of that!
You don’t need a significant other to be significant. You already are. You also do not need a significant other to tell you how to act, think or be. You are perfectly equipped to be about that life on your own.
I am currently listening to “Push It” by Salt-N-Pepa. This song ALWAYS makes me feel like the indefatigable, invincible, courageous and spectacular person I am!!! YYYAYYAAAAAASSSSSS!
We spend entirely much too much time worrying about what others think about what we think about what we think about. This sentence doesn’t make sense. It makes about as much sense as worrying about what others think about what we think about!
I’ll stop by long enough to encourage you to tell your own story. Your story is unique to you. You can also kick folk out of your stories if you want to!
Life is short. Tell your story. All of it. Don’t be ashamed of your story. The things that have happened in your life has helped to shape you. Don’t waste a moment worrying about who may or may not read your story. Your audience will find you. I can’t wait to hear what you have to say.
asking for A Friend, Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: I have gathered so many stories living through this hard time. I am doing my best to share as many of them as I can to help as many people as I can. Life is short. Do you. Be you.
Why Can't I Be Loud?! 