Category: Inspiration

Life is work. So get to work.

Life has been really interesting lately.

The more I work towards my dreams, the more my dreams become work.

Life is lifery like that, beloveds.

📰 News Flash: ⚠

Life IS work.

Hard work.

Tedious, at times, ⚒ work.

Life-affirming work.

Work, nonetheless.

So get to work, beloveds!

Here lately, I have been working, no pun intended, on getting to know the cultures and concepts of folk who don’t look like me.

To my amazement, I have found a common denominator of folk ALL over the 🗺world:

No one wants to work anymore!

😳

YouTube has been filled with nothing but folk quitting this, ending that, disillusioned about everything because life appears to be…work.

Folk with hundreds of thousands of subscribers, likes and comments, now comment about not liking themselves or the ‘work’.

Van lifers are now 📦 packing up, moving home and tired of having to make ‘too many choices’ about what pretty scenery to go to next. Or, they are tired of lying to folk about how ‘easy’ life is when you don’t have to worry about rent.

Yea, this means you now have to worry about where to park, where to shower, where to get water, where to dump your, um, dumpings.

All the stuff us regular working folk do, on the daily.

It’s not just happening to the young folk. Older folk, tired of the work, checked out and decided to play for as long as they could.

The 🛎 bell tolls, for us all, beloveds. The Universe demands it’s work. Life demands it’s work. God tells us to get to work. God rested on Day 7. Meaning, He worked the other 6!😂🤑

Time is money 💵, beloveds. If you want the 💵, best get to putting in the time.

Invest in your legacy. Spend time on your dreams. Get to work. As if your very life depends upon it.

getting to work,

Cassandra

Note: Get going.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Heart ♥ check Sunday.

You know what time it is.

Heart check time!

*Cassandra scrounge around in her love bag and pulls out her stethoscope. Lemme ♥ hear.*

🤔

🥰

Hmm. Doesn’t seem like your heart has enough love crammed in there today. Here:

❤️‍🩹⚒️💪📣🤗🤗📦👑♥️

How was that, beloveds? Good.

You have extra?

Good. Give some 😍 love away today. Starting with you.

Cassandra

Note: Okay, um, you supposed to be giving some love away. Scoot.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Pockets of joy.

A hand.

Held.

Snippets of conversation.

Had.

Pockets of joy.

Consumed.

Ah.

Aha!

I find myself:

Satisfied.

I find myself.

Ah.

Aha!

Pockets of joy.

satisfied,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I had drifted off to the melodic tones of a traveler who had been describing his day. Somewhere, he said three words that snatched me from my slumber…

Pockets of joy.

????

!!!!

🎯🔥🛑🤯🥰🙏🎤

My soul, one long longing for pockets of joy:

Ran.

Sang.

Lept.

Straight into the arms of God.

Ah. Aha! My always Pockets Of Joy. Ah, God. I love me some You.🥰. Ah, Life. I love me some You. Ah, Universe. I love fighting with and for You. Ah, beloveds. I love thinking of, praying for, trying with you. I find you to be…

Pockets of joy.

Be encouraged.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Heart check ♥️ Saturday.

It’s Saturday!

Workwise, it’s actually my Friday. So what?

The weekend is here.

I have done my best.

I have given my all.

I am tired.

I ordered chicken strips and mini glazed donuts to enjoy for today. Yaya! I only bought a dozen. Donuts, that is.

Deliciously, I allowed myself to have three mini donuts. I forced myself to put the other nine away so I could enjoy them today. Yaya!

Now, I rest. System issues are preventing work. How sad. 😁🤣. Actually, I enjoy working so the system issues have been a pain.

That said, I am using the extra time to get things done. Working from home is fantastic. I can get my chores done early so I can enjoy my donuts and ☕ coffee. Yaya!

You are welcome to join me, beloveds. You have done your week. Time to rest and refill.

How’s your heart? Asking for A Friend.

Take care of yourself. Thanks for hanging out with me this week. Let’s rest up so we can get into all manner of cuteupness, eh?

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note:

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Use your disappointment to make an appointment.

I was disappointed.

Again.

I tried.

I failed.

Again.

I cried.

Again.

God heard me.

Again.

My disappointment was just another opportunity to make an appointment with Him.

My disappointment was just another opportunity to make an appointment with The Universe.

My disappointment was just another opportunity to make an appointment with Life.

My disappointment was just another opportunity to make an appointment with hard.

My disappointment was just another opportunity to make an appointment.

Ah.

Aha!

Disappointment is a part of life. Disappointment shows up when you try. Disappointment doctor every step towards your goal. Disappointment is your fiercest adversary.

Keep fighting until you have made Disappointment ppointment your best friend!

Your trials and tests are nothing but obstacles on the way to your miracle. Get excited when you see them. They are a sign that victory is at hand.

Keep making appointments!

being about being about it,

Cassandra

Note: There is the other side. Keep moving towards it.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Real talk: Get out of your own way.

Can I be honest with you beloveds? Just for a little bit? Will you promise not to tell on me?

I’ve been getting in my own way. How? If I would have been honest, I would admit that I have been letting fear run the show. Just a little bit of fear, here. A touch of worry, there.

Not enough to be obvious. Just enough to stop my dreams in their tracks.

Fear can be a tricky thing. Fear  will sneak up on you when you least expect it to. Every time you think you have things conquered , fear will show up and say, ha ha.

I am learning to fight fear where I find it. I seem to have found it everywhere these last few weeks.

I have found it in my age. I have found it in my finances. I have found it in my aloneness. I have founded in my health. Finally, fear showed up in my dreams.

And that beloveds,  was the last straw!

I have been needing to clean out the lint trap in the dryer. I have been lazy. Which means all I have been doing is racking up higher power bills and taking much longer to dry the laundry.

Instead of taking 5 minutes to clean out the lint trap, I have been lazy and restarting the laundry telling myself the clothes will get dry sooner or later. Smh.

I don’t know why us humans keep doing the dumb thing. Not doing the right thing at the right time and expecting to have different results. Smh.

I’m learning how to do the right things at the right time no matter how I feel. I am learning how to clean out the link trap in my own life.

I have been doing the hard work of confronting myself and being honest about my fears and why I’m afraid of this and that.

What I am learning is that most of my fears come from the fears of others. I’m afraid because they were afraid. I’m afraid I can’t do it because they never did it or believed they could.

I think I can. I want to try. I am trying. My try just does not seem to be enough these days.

My tears have been my meat as a bible says. My tears have water disappointment and discouragement for days. My tears have chased me into bed. My tears have making me awaken in the night.

Yet, my tears, water my hope. My tears,  rain down upon my joy. My tears, accompany my footsteps as I keep walking towards my dreams.

I promised myself I would try. For me.

I’m doing my best to stay out of my way. I’m doing my utmost to get out of my own way. Life is short.

Be encouraged. Keep trying. We should get there some kind of way.

In the meantime, enjoy your life. Get out of your own way. Remember to clean out your lint traps!

fighting on,

Cassandra

Note: One step at a time. One moment at a time. One day at a time.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

When funny just ain’t funny.

Life kicked my hind end today.

Whew!

Life was NOT very funny today.

So much so, I pouted through much of it. Yea, beloveds, I carried on. I fussed. I fretted. I told God what a meanie Life was being.

I told myself I was just NOT in the mood to tell any jokes today. Ha! No jokes for you people.

Somehow, I found enough in me to tell one joke. One joke turned into two. Two turned into many. After a time, I forgot what a meanie Life was being and just enjoyed what life I was living.

No, things were not funny. Yet, I found some joy buried beneath the hard.

Keep going, beloveds. Don’t allow hard to be a/the reason you give up on your jokes.

Keep laughing. Keep trying. Things WILL work out. In the meantime, keep working out your faith muscles…*shrug*.

I love annoying fear/doubt. They hate it when I keep being about being about it.

sharing a laugh with you,

Cassandra

Note: Nuff said.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

I am a chaser.

I am a chaser.

I have to be.

At work, my job depends upon chasing quality.

I pursure excellence, at all costs.

I must have good humor.

My job also depends upon producing as much quality work, in a timely a manner as possible.

Soooooooooooooooooooooo, I chase:

Quality.

Quantity.

Excellence.

Relentlessly.

Does it get tiring?

Absolutely.

Do I slow down?

Of course not.

I rest when I am done.

I make it my mission to give as much of me as I can to EVERY person and contact.

The last person of the day, gets just as much of me as the first person received.

It’s not always easy, beloveds, to give 100 when you feel as though you left 99 a long ways back!

Keep chasing, beloveds.

Chase:

Excellence.

Love.

Joy.

Peace.

Perseverence.

Knowledge.

Laughter.

Care.

Chase all that can/will drive back whatever darkness you may encounter. Chase all that will fill you and renew you. Chase away all that hinders you.

Life is short. Live. Love someone. Start with you.

chasing with you,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I love you. Nuff said.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

They don’t know you!

Fear.

Doubt.

Hard.

They don’t know you, beloveds!

They don’t know your:

Fight.

Try.

Resilience.

Heart.

Integrity.

Truth.

Love.

Joy.

Yea, beloveds, this world does NOT know you!

Look at you, with your bad self!?

Look at you being about being about it no matter what happens?!

You go!

Strut your stuff!

Yea, let ALL see you sweat as you pound your way up Hard Mountain. Hard ain’t nothin’ but a thang for you now!

I see you.

The Universe sees you.

God sees you.

Keep on being you and watch your dreams come true.

In the meantime, help someone else make their dreams come true. Encourage someone. Love someone. Starting with you.

being about it with you,

Cassandra

Note: Okay, so, geeeeeeez, you are supposed to be about being about it and loving folks. Get going now.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

We ain’t done.

Tell hard…

We ain’t done.

Tell fear…

We ain’t done.

Tell disappointment.

We ain’t done.

Tell discouragement…

We ain’t done.

Tell hate…

We ain’t done.

Tell apathy…

We ain’t done.

Tell tired…

We ain’t done.

Then get up and try again!

Ha!

doing thangs,

Cassandra

Note: We ain’t done, beloveds.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!