Category: hope

Embrace the changes.

The weather has been brutal.

One minute the temperature is bitterly cold. Hours later the sun comes and hangs out with us.

I’m learning how to adapt to the changes in my life.

I have always been a creature of habit. I like things the way I like things. I have been teaching myself how to like other things!

Embrace the change in your life. Change is needed at times. Change is not meant as a punishment. Everything changes. It’s a part of life.

It’s a good thing I have decided to embrace the change. WordPress has changed how things are and it took forever figuring out where things were.

Initially, I threw a fit…

Then, I remembered I was supposed to be zen and embracing all this change nonsense and got back to embracing THIS INCREDIBLY AND ANNOYING CHANGES IN WORDPRESS. WHY, WHY, WHY IN THE FRESH HELL….okay…opposite.

Choose laughter over anger. Choose hope over fear. Choose to try rather than walk away from change.

Use 2025 for your good. There are NO victims here. If you are tired of something, change it. Change you. Turn the channel. Turn off social media. Stop following trends just for following trends sake. BE the next trend.

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Nuff said. Seize these moments. You have NO idea 💡 what God and Life will do with your try. Just TRY. I dare you. Dare yourself. Challenge yourself. Who knows what your day will bring?

Be encouraged.

Do NOT waste too much of your day feeding into all the gloom and doom being tossed about.

Take some time away from your 📱 phone. I have a basket that I put my phone in every day now. Before I kept my phone within arm’s length. I just HAD to have it close by. I dared not miss the latest whatever was going on.

One day, my twin told me to turn off the phone and leave it at my desk. I gasped and told her I couldn’t. Eventually, I did. It took a while, but I relearned how to enjoy a life not chained to my phone.

Take some time. Embrace the change. Life will change on a dime. Don’t be afraid. If afraid, go an

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Things are looking up.

Things are looking up.

Look up.

Look around you and soak in the beauty.

Things ARE looking up.

I’m choosing to look at the positive. It’s so easy to focus on all the bad things that have happened in our lives. There have been so many good things we have dismissed as luck or chance. Things are looking up for us all.

I plan on making this a spectacular year. It already is. I’m eating salads. I’m getting more rest. I’m making sure to reach out to my family and my friends. I’ll be sure to get me some good me time in.

I have been organizing and prioritizing. I’m keeping my promises to myself. I’m doing my best. I’m embracing the outcomes.

I’m standing on business. I told fear to take a hike. I’m looking for new challenges. I run away from nothing. Life, here I come!

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Make life happen. Keep looking up. in case no one has told you today. I love you.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Stay consistent.

I am consistent.

I am persistent.

I am magnificent!

I strive.

Consistently.

I pursue.

Consistently.

I thrive.

Consistently.

I am relentless in my consistency.

Excellence lives within my consistency.

Haters can’t keep up with my consistency.

I am constantly consistent.

I rinse and repeat, consistently.

Why?

Ask that 🗻 mountain over there. What pile of rocks? Oh, those tiny rocks used to be a big bully 🗻 that was trying to 💪 flex its largeness on me. My supposed “tiny” consistency wore it down.

consistently/patiently turning mountains into molehills,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Stay consistent. See how many 🗻 mountains you can turn back into molehills!

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

It is what it is, but it doesn’t have to stay that way!

Life ain’t easy. So what? It’s doable.

I have been encouraging as many peeps as I can to be encouraged.

Life IS hard. It is what it is, but it doesn’t have to remain that way.

WE can change our lives by doing nothing more than changing our outlook.

I have been fine until I start focusing on frightful things such as an especially tough labor market, my age, and all the other realities that demand to be heard.

I tell those things to shut up. Then, I do what I can. Then, I wait. Simple as that.

Waiting is never simple. Waiting brings out soooooooooo much anxiety and whatifs. I’m learning what to do with the anxiety and whatifs. I’m learning what to do with ME during these uncertain times.

It’s easy to feel helpless. I’m choosing to do the hard thing. I’m choosing to have faith no matter what things look like. I’m choosing to try when everyone else stops. I’m taking the chance on taking chances.

I hope your day is going on fantastically. Make it so. I hear another cup of coffee calling. Take care.

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Just because it is what it is doesn’t mean it has to stay that way. Reality yells for me to give up. Hope whispers for me to try again. My heart cries…I’ll try. Ah, God. Where You at? Asking for many friends.

Be encouraged. Hard won’t be hard always. I think…lol

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Do both: Make a decision already!

I was driving myself up ten walls over my chili or tacos debate.

I was hankering for tacos.

I was remembering how delish the last pot of chili turned out.

Chili? Tacos?

Tacos? Chili?

Suddenly, a brilliant idea proffered the greatest solution of all time: Do both!

Ah.

Aha!

I had two pounds of ground  beef. I used one for tacos. I made chili with the others…*slaps self upside the head*.

I wasted days on something that had a simple solution.

I have spent the week enjoying tacos and chili.

Sometimes the only thing to do is just to make a decision. Do something. Or decide not to do the thing. Get out of the middle of the road. You may get run over!

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I am making the changes in 2025 that I needed to have made in 2024. I allowed the fear of the unknown to keep me from making a decision. Never again. The unknown does not have to be scary. I am embracing the unknown and living in the meantime.

Make it happen in 2025. don’t worry about failing. You will. When failure happens, get up and try again. We are not our failures. We are not failures. We are magnificent human beings. Let’s BE magnificent. Asking for A Friend.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

I feel inadequate. Today.

I feel inadequate.

Today.

I feel helpless.

Just this minute.

I feel restless.

For tomorrow.

I feel lonely.

Right now.

I feel hopeful.

All the time.

I feel…

I feel!

Ah.

Aha!

feeling everything at once,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Be encouraged. If you are feeling a tad inadequate, join the bazillion others who have felt the same.

I am feeling like such an idiot. I spent forever yesterday trying to make a motivational video. I finished said video. I posted said video. Nobody seemed to have given two damns. I wanted to say “never again” and kick the 🌎 world to the curb. I can’t. I promised to care no matter what. I care on…*😳 embarrassed sigh*.

Be encouraged. Keep on doing you. As for me, I feel inadequate. Today. Ah, God. Yikes…



One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

I forgot to be sad.

I was so focused on loving folk.

I forgot to be sad.

I was so intent on sharing my heart.

I forgot to be mad.

I was so determined to love the whole damned world.

I remembered why I was glad.

Life is short. Love someone. Starting with you.

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Life brings all kinds of things with. It doesn’t HAVE to be sad. What are you DOING with what life has wrought you today?…lol.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Don’t allow lazy to keep you lazy in 2025.

I wanted to be lazy this morning. I told myself it was okay to sleep in.

I drug lazy out of bed in mid sentence!

I have been going to bed earlier so I can get up early and get about getting about it.

Lazy has NOT been down for this plan. Lazy so desperately wants to BE lazy. Not on my watch! Ha!

Lazy is currently complaining about washing dishes…lol.

Be sure you are not the reason your dreams are not coming true, beloveds. Wake up. Get up. Make it happen for your life.

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: January is almost over. Are you squeezing out the best in every moment? You still have time. Get to it. Get a move on. We have things to do.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Heart check ♥ Wednesday.

Just checking on your heart, beloveds.

How are YOU doing? I hope your day is going well.

The cold here is melting my brain 🧠. Yep, it’s sooooooo cold my mind has numbed.🥶

I had some inspiration rattling around, but it has to thaw out. In the meantime, I just wanted to encourage someone.

Tik Tok and the internet is full of nothing but gloom. Don’t despair. Live your life. Life is more than Tik Tok. Put down the phone. Since you have the phone 📱, call someone and have an actual conversation!

Have a 🥗 salad. Follow up with chocolate 🍫…lol.

Be encouraged. Things will be okay.

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: We fight on…

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

When haters try to give you their love, show them the door.🚪

When haters try to give you their love, show them the door.🚪

Nuff said. Stop wasting your life on what clowns have to say.

We have much toooooooooooo much to do, beloveds. Don’t waste a second of 2025 on the haters. They have nothing better to do because they have nothing to do. We got thangs to do, remember?

doing thangs with you,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: There will ALWAYS be folk who will tell you what you can never have, where you can and can not go, what you can or can not do. Let them talk. You are much too busy to listen.

Above all, beloveds, don’t EVER add your voice to those of the naysayers. We are often our biggest critics, aren’t we?

Champion yourself. Celebrate your try. Don’t worry about the outcome. Enjoy playing in the game. Salute the winner. Even if it’s not you!

We only get this ONE life. LIVE. I love me some you. Am sure some may wonder why I tell complete strangers that I love them. You are NOT strangers to me. You are my brothers. You are my sisters. I love you. So does He.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!