Author: Cassandra S.

Cut yourself some slack.

Cut yourself some slack, beloveds.

Life is much too short to be worrying about things you can not change, alter, get away from etcetera.

Life is just going to go all lifery on you, anyway. Do what you can. Leave the rest be.

I mean it!

ALL you are doing is wasting the day.

Keep pursuing your dream. Be good to yourself as you wait for it. Acknowledge when you are tired and frustrated. Rest. Get up and keep it moving. Rinse. Repeat.

Simple as that.

How do I know? I wasted a bajillion years until I got tired of banging my head against the same wall every other five and a half seconds….ow!

Be encouraged. You are exactly where you are supposed to be. God and The Universe has already calculated your acting a fool, wasting time, discouragement and the like into your equation.

You got this.

You CAN.

You WILL.

cheering you on,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: In case no one told you today – I love you. Let someone know they are loved and not alone would you please/thanks? Asking for A Friend.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note:

Be encouraged.

Be encouraged. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C3v5xTSOFms/?igsh=aXN3dXlvanM5ZGc0

My first attempt making a motivational moment. Having a blast learning.

Be encouraged.

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Keep going. You can do it.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

My dreams woke up and told me to go.

Dreams: Get up, Cassandra. Hurry!

Me: 😴. What’s the hurry?

Dreams: 🤑

Me: Nuff said.

going,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Just sharing a bit of a 😂 laugh, beloveds. Life is short. Also, lazy took over this piece and said to keep it super short. Don’t tell but I was successfully bribed by lazy and nap. Nap promised to be especially long and comfortably snoozy!

In the meantime, keep embracing your now and enjoying it, while you are in your in the meantime stage of life. You know the drill by now:

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Take YOUR vision and go!

I was up all night trying to get my dreams to shut up long enough to get some sleep!

It’s amazing what happens, beloveds, when you give yourself permission to act upon your dreams no matter how you feel.

Take your fear with you, but go!

Take your doubt with you, but go!

Take YOUR vision and go!

I have had a blast dreaming up 50 ways to do my first motivational video. I think I am going to use my piece called ‘Fear, you don’t run me!’ I looooooooove that sentence! Makes me want to punch excuses in the face!

Excuses: Hey! Why you bothering me? I wasn’t doing anything yet! I mean, I wasn’t going to do anything because lazy was…

Lazy: Hey! Why you bothering me on my day off? I was fixing to get up but you woke me now I have to take another nap.

Nap: Hey! Don’t involve me! Day promised me an extra treat if I got up on time!

Day: Quiet. QUIET!! Lazy, go on and take excuses with you and leave nap alone! Cassandra has thangs to do!

Thanks, day. Uh, oh, beloveds, I had better take off before dreams wake up again.

Dreams:😴🥳 You rang?

Me: Oh, no!

living my dreams outloud,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Get to daydreaming then get up and make them happen. You got this. Be encouraged.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Connections: Keep reaching out.

Keep reaching out. You have things to say. You have much to share. The world needs to hear your voice.

Keep making connections. Keep being the impact that you are. You have no idea how much of an influence you are being in the world.

The Universe appreciates your try. Keep giving you all even if you feel  unappreciated. Your efforts are not in vain!

This is your time. It’s okay to be afraid. Take your fear with you and enjoy your time.

Fly, beloveds. Fear hates to fly. Lazy and boring likes to hang out on the ground.

Don’t allow one day to pass without your having loved someone. Starting with you.

I used to argue with God and The Universe that folk would get bored being encouraged EVERY day. Lord knows I get tired, at times, from having to encourage EVERY day.

There are days when I just want to do, well, absolutely nothing! I don’t want to have to care. I don’t want to have to take the lonely and hot high road.

Some days, I just want to cram Doritoes and do blissfully nothing until nothing matters but more Doritoes.

Alas, life is much too short not to care and to love.

So, I find myself cramming your inbox with love and care. 🤷‍♀️♥️

Don’t blame me. The Universe woke me and won’t leave me be until I tell you:

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Cassandra

Use the darkness.

Don’t be afraid of the dark, beloveds.

Use it to your advantage.

For some reason, I can’t sleep. The dark keeps waking me up.

I told the dark to leave me alone. I have things to do in the morning. Yet the darkness is hanging out with The Universe wants to talk to me, I guess.

I am learning to listen. Life just wants folks to keep trying.

Life is so worth living.

Life can be so confusing. The darkness can seem so scary. It’s not. It’s just dark. The day will come.

We can always turn on a light.🔹⛏️♥️

Cassandra

Note: Use the dark to your advantage. Make up on your dreams and make them happen!

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

You can soar from your current position.

A funny thing happened on the way to my dreams…

For months and months, my heart had been driving me up ten walls. Thankfully, beloveds, I can now speak in past terms. Whew!

My heart had been pestering there was more she wanted to do with my life.

More.

More.

More.

The word chased me to bed.

More.

More.

More!

The word chased me out of 🛏 bed.

More.

More.

More!

More what!?

I couldn’t ignore the stupid word. Nothing was satisfying anymore. See!? There is that ‘more’ again!

I asked God what on earth was going on with my heart. God said ‘beats me’ and left ME to figure things out for myself. How dare!

Finally, I had a heart to heart cry with God and asked WHY He would give me a dream and then not let me fly!

I wanted to do this, that and the other thing, but life was currently in the way.

He asked one sentence that stopped me in my tracks:

Why can’t you soar from where you are right now?

Hhmmm.

I was forced to ask myself:

Why can’t you soar from where you are right now?

Can you soar from where you are right now?

Will you soar from where you are right now?

What things do you need to help you soar right now?

Hhmmm.

Ah.

Aha!

After a hard and honest talk with ME, I began to surf YouTube. As background, I was never into YouTube. For years and years.

I paid for the cable. Flipped gaskets over high internet bill over usage. Wondered why on earth sis and niece forever were carrying on about YouTube this and YouTube that.

One day, I wondered on, wandered around, and th rest was history. Now, I have to schedule time. Otherwise, I could spend a lifetime watching udon noodles being made.

While surfing, some tutorials on website building and other things I would need to learn popped up. Yikes!

God heard me! So, I started a playlist and got to pondering my what next and what now.

I had also determined I was going to find a more modern apartment with central air. I asked myself if this was a deal breaker because I liked my neighborhood. It’s quiet. Neighbors doing bother each other.

I live in central location of the stores and post office etc. It’s the perfect spot. Just older building and upstairs. I considered if I wanted to live beneath folk stomping upstairs.

I think I may stay where I am!

I also pondered on how much time I am allowing myself to learning how to create and build my own weird website and how much I am willing to put out, monthly, if I never make a dime.

Am I writing to encourage, to entertain, to make money or all three? If so, do I do a website with blog? Do I stick with just a blog and play around with that?

Questions. Questions!

I decided to soar from where I am. Right now. Here, I shall plant my 🚩 flag. I have no idea where or how things will turn out. I am just going to create my own opportunity and see what happens.

Right now, I am watching my favorite YouTube channels in a new way. I am pondering what I like about them. Why I choose one channel over another.

Hopefully, this will help me with this blog so I can present my magnificent words in a more eye pleasing way…😂.

I love a good meal. Half the enjoyment is how it looks on the plate. I am going to learn to feed yall steak on something other than on a paper plate.🥸😂🤷‍♀️

In the meantime, beloveds, I just stopped by to encourage you to soar from where you are. You will get to your somewhere sooner or later. Or, you may end up someplace totally unexpectedly.

Look around you. Look within you. Then, look up and keep moving forward. We got thangs to do.

doing thangs from here,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Um, you are supposed to be soaring! Scoot!

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

It’s awfully hard to stay discouraged when you choose to stay committed.

It’s awfully hard to stay discouraged when you choose to stay committed.

I had been soooooooooooooooooooooo discouraged. ALL week. And, I mean all week?

Every since my friend’s dad passed away, I have been feeling MY mortality.

I don’t know how much time I have left.

Ack.

I decided I was going to get on with my life. Taking my feels with me. My feels did NOT feel like keeping act right acting right. My feels wanted to stay righteously indignant over my try not getting me to where I want to be.

I told my feels to shut up and get on with LIVING life with what I have, currently. So what if I don’t yet have what I have been imagining in my dreams.

I am awake. Now. I have what I have. Now. I choose to embrace and enjoy my life. Now.

Yea, beloveds, it’s awfully hard to stay discouraged when you choose to stay committed!

Commit to your try. Commit to the promise you have made to God, to Life, to The Universe. Commit to embracing the outcomes of your try.

And, if the outcome is not tasty, tweak your recipe and try again!

You will never know where you will be unless and until you…be.

Let today be the last day you will ever contemplate giving up on you and your dreams. You will want to quit a billion times. That’s okay. You had just best tell quit to join lazy and apathy and doubt and fear on the curb!

Get going now, beloveds. We got thangs to do!

doing thangs with you,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Refuse to focus on all the foolishness around you. Folk will act and do as they will. Pray for them. Wish them well and keep it moving.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Ah.

Ah.

I’m having a blast, beloveds.

Daydreaming.

Planning.

Gathering.

Learning.

Stumbling.

Falling.

Rising.

Pursuing.

Life is short, beloveds. Get out there and live.

Soar.

Where you are.

You don’t need a fat wallet to be satisfied.

You can experience joy right NOW.

Keep doing you.

Keep doing hard. It WILL pay off in the end.

Don’t join the timid souls who are giving up on everything, and everyone because life is hard or not playing fair.

So what?

Life IS hard, at time and does not always play fair.

Stay in the game.

Don’t worry about the score.

Don’t concern yourself with who wins the trophy 🏆.  If you, fine. If not, be gracious with the winner.

What a wonderful day!

embracing my moments,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Okay, so you are supposed to be enjoying your moments.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU

Real talk: Set your own number.

I am finishing up my pieces for the week.

I used to do three. Every day.

Why?

It’s to keep me from doing 30! 🥰😂🤷‍♀️🥸

I can’t help it. I love thinking about folk. I love encouraging. I love, love, absolutely love to love.

I love you.

See!?🥰

Words are important to me. Always have been. I never heard ‘I love you’ from my parents. They were old school. Meaning they were never taught HOW to express their feels in word form or affection form.

Mom showed her love through her cooking and acts of service. She fought health issues but cooked for everyone.

Dad showed his love, I guess in his mind, through hard raising. He spared not the rod, ow. He did teach me to love learning as he took us to the library on the regular.

Anywho, I had been talking to a friend about my writing. He had FINALLY got around to the wonder of me and insisted I had to go viral somehow. Apparently, there is a real need for folk to know they are loved and not alone. Who knew?…*Cassandra finds it amusing how men folk think they are terribly wise when they give women folk ideas women folk already knew and had*

He said the writing etiquette was generally three pieces of content daily. Don’t ask me where three came from.

I figured I needed to whittle down to somewhere less than 10. Unless emergencies arise, and I just HAD to share.

Three worked for quite a while. One day, my heart only felt like writing two pieces. Stubbornly, I made myself write a third piece.

I asked myself WHY three were necessary? They weren’t. I then asked myself if it was more important to keep a habit or was I  willing to modify said habit?

Now, I write two pieces. There may be times when I do just one…hhmm. Nah!🥰🥸😂

The point is, beloveds, is to set your own number. Yes, it’s good, and needed to get the counsel of folk.

As it is your life, you get the last word. That is, after mom, dad, significant other, God, Life and The Universe, your job and every other person who likes to run your life. You get to squeeze in there somewhere. 😉🤗🤣

I think this is piece number two so I had best stop here. Best not do a third after all the carrying on about stopping with two…hhmmm.

Ppssst. Don’t tell, beloveds, I feel another piece scrambling around. Speaking of scrambling…

brb,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Be encouraged. Nuff said. Oh yea, I love you.♥️🥰