Category: Inspiration

Tell lies to shut up.

I’m fat.

I’m old.

I can’t.

I don’t know how.

Nobody cares.

SHUT UP!!!!!

*Cassandra pops herself upside the head, grabs hold of some act right and moves on with her day”

Nuff said.

Cassandra

Note: I just stopped by to tell you to be encouraged, beloveds. Do NOT allow anything to tell you foolish things like you can’t and you won’t make your dreams come true.

Tell yourself to shut up, then keep it moving. We can? Why? Because we MUST. Nuff said. STOP listening to your foolishness when your act right wants to do nothing more than snack and hide from life.

Remember, it takes but ONE step. Just one. Then another. See!? You got this! As do I. In the meantime, stop being mean to yourself when you fall short. We fall more than we rise. The trick is to keep rising, as does the Phoenix. Look how magnificent your try is growing! Amazing! YOU are amazing. Whether you feel as though you are or not. Our feels lie to us. Be encouraged. As shall I. I love me some you. As does He.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Geeeeeez!

Geeeez!

God: You rang, beloved?

Me: What in all that is holy, begging Your Pardon, is all this hard doing on my plate today? Geeeeez!…*pout *

God: Why are you asking Me? You asked for your dreams to come true. There they are.

*Cassandra looked upon the mountain of hard with skepticism*

Me: I don’t see anything but hard.

God: Look closer, beloved.

Ah.

Aha!

*Cassandra scrambles off The Father Lap anxious to take on her hard.*

What was in the hard, you ask?

Hey! No cheating! Pick up your own ⛏ ax and get to it. 🔹

doing hard,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Keep going. Some fantastic things can be found in your geeeeeez!…lol.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Entitled to be lazy.

I find it ironic, beloveds.

Here I am getting things lined up so I can learn how to then post motivational videos and all kinds of well known folks are leaving YouTube in droves.

Over and over I keep hearing folk talk about being burnt out from ‘work’. Alas, their ‘dream job’ of creating content is now just a lot of work.

Who knew?

I was raised to work. And, to work hard and long. This last decade or so have heralded the value of making a living by NOT having to work hard, or not at all.

It seems folks just want to frolic on beaches whilst ‘influencing’ others to want to do the same. Everyone is told how idyllic the world can be IF you are:

Young enough.

Pretty enough.

Wealthy enough.

If you know the ‘right’ people.

If you have the ‘right’ job.

If you have the ‘right’ address.

If you are the ‘right’ skin color.

If you are/have the ‘right’ legacy.

The rest of us can, apparently, turn left, keep working hard and stay kicked to the curb.

Yikes.

Be encouraged, beloveds.

It’s up to YOU to accept whatever label folk will try and slap on you.

I don’t believe all young folk are lazy and entitled.

I don’t believe all older folk are hard working and level-headed.

I think we are all a combination of these things.

We are ALL lazy, at times.

We are ALL entitled feeling, at times.

we are ALL hard working, at times.

We are ALL level-headed, at times.

And, at ALL times, we are…human.

We are entitled to be lazy, beloveds. Yet, we must bear the cost of being lazy. Life is short. I choose to keep my act right acting right.

I choose to try even when I am tired and weary.

I choose to believe everything will be okay.

I choose to love.

I choose to laugh.

I choose to make the best of things.

I choose to encourage as many folks as I can wrap my arms and my heart around.

Be encouraged.

Keep on choosing you.

Keep on trying.

Take care.

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Have an awesome rest of your day. This day was made for you. Embrace all that happens within it. This day is bringing out the best of you and showing you what things need to be tweaked, discarded and cherished.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

When life is not funny, laugh anyway.

I had to laugh, beloveds.

And, I mean laugh. NOTHING was working. I mean absolutely nothing. Stakeholders not happy. Managers not thrilled. Peers not amused.

I have spent the day apologizing for things I can do nothing about.

What did I do?

I laughed.

I made lemonade from the lemons.

I told myself the truth:

It is well.

When life hands you lemons, make something tasty.

Don’t fret.

Don’t sweat.

Don’t worry.

Things WILL be okay.

It is well.

laughing through the hard,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Hang in there. It will be okay. Okay take some of this with you and spread liberally:

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU.

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!

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!

Why don’t You? Why won’t you?

Me: Why don’t You?

God: Why won’t you?

Me: Why did You?

God: Why didn’t you?

Me: When will you?

God: Why couldn’t you?

Me: You didn’t ask loud enough.

God: You were too loud to hear.

Me: Ack.

God: Ack.

Me: What now?

God: Now what?

Me: Kinda hard to argue with Your logic.

God: True that.

🤷‍♀️🥰,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I grew up being admonished to never question God. How the hooey can you ever build a RELATIONSHIP with Someone you can’t have HONEST dialog with?

Life is challenging. Life challenges us to keep questioning our why and our way so we can live a life with integrity and not have to worry about why.

Be encouraged. Stop looking for easy. Easy is other there hanging out with lazy, defeat and discouragement. Do you REALLY want to spend your years with THEM?!😳

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

All is NOT lost.

All is NOT lost.

This is what I told myself, today.

This is what I have been having to tell myself EVERY day, here lately.

I have had to tell fear and doubt to kick rocks.

I have had to tell my feels to take two seats.

I have had to turn on the lights.

I have had to take out the trash.

I have had to back away from the Lay’s and Doritoes.

I have had to get as much rest as my anxt will allow. Anxt sure can be loud, yikes.

When going through, beloveds, it is important to remember that all truly is not lost.

And, if you do lose something, remember that God and The Universe have taken all things into account. Some things need to go. Other things need to be tweaked. Still others need to be changed or rearranged.

It’s the in the meantime that can get awfully frustrating and discouraging if we allow.

I did not feel like working today. Yet, working has been a welcome distraction from grief and hard. Grief, it appears, does not care too much for light and bad singing and dish washing. It took off a bit ago. Yeppers, grief got annoyed and lazy was not feeling chores so took off with grief and discouragement.

Now, I am just left with joy and peace. My heart is still a bit heavy yet joy is mixed in with it.

I am keeping my promise of writing everyday. Whether I feel like it or not. I am also pondering on things and determining which way to go to get a podcast going and upgrading to a higher WordPress plan so I can take advantage of more treats and benefits I have no idea how to use…*shrug*.

I hear a cup of coffee calling. Just stopped by to splash you with a bit of encouragement. Be encouraged. Everything truly WILL be okay.

Take care of your heart for it is precious and you are priceless. Love someone. Starting with you.

cheering for you,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: One step at time. And, if all you can take, today, is one step…that’s okay. It’s one step closer to your dream coming true. We got this.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!