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Don’t worry about the negative things people say.

Don’t worry about the negative things people say.

Stay positive. Folk are going to be negative.

Don’t waste your life waiting for folk to say positive things about you.

Stay positive. Folk are positively going to hate on you

Don’t wonder about who is saying what about you.

Stay positive. Folk are going to say anything and everything about you. True or not.

God says this about you: You are fearfully and wonderfully made. NOTHING shall separate you from My Love.

The Universe says this about you: There is only ONE you. How priceless you are!

Life says this about you: What a precious gift you are!

I say this about you: I  love you, beloveds. I pray for you EVERY day. I 😂 laugh at the enemy for being so stupid as to try you. For, I KNOW, these trials SHALL have you come out as gold.

Make sure YOU say this about you: I am loved. I am NOT alone. I CAN. I WILL!

Now, beloveds, get out there and LIVE. Let today be the LAST day you go begging for crumbs of love.

Love. Just love. Love will be sure you receive your share as you share your love with others.

It has taken these last years, of terrible strain and hardship, for me to learn to just love folk. I no longer base my love, or lack thereof, on how much or if I was loved back.

I love. I keep it moving. I love it when I am loved back. Yes, it hurts when love appears unreturned. Yet, I understand folk are hurting so that most have NO clue how to receive love. Let alone understand HOW to return love.

In these days and times, the word love is tossed about soooooooooooooo casually. Too casually.

Folk have forgotten the sheer wonder of love. Folk have replaced love with lust. Sadly, they mistakenly believe lust will fulfill or tie others to them. It does not. It never will.

Life is short, beloveds. 🛑 Stop paying rent to the 🌎 world. This means, stop trying to buy love, affection, and safety by presenting yourself as something/someone you are not.

Be you. Don’t worry about the negative things people say.

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Step out. Be audaciously YOU. Without apology. The 🌎 world needs your particular brand of you.

I had wanted to start a blog for many, many years. I didn’t because I was afraid no one would care. I was afraid of what folk would think about what I thought. I thought my thoughts were stupid. I thought some of the dumbest things.

One day, I decided to deal with my fear and try. I tried. I felt like an idiot at first. There are days when I STILL feel like an idiot.

I feel like an idiot now. So what? I’m still trying. That is enough for me. All I can do is try, right?

Try. Just try. YOU may be the very person I have needed to propel my dream forward. I may be the answer to YOUR prayer/ hope/wish. How shall we ever know unless we try? Let’s go!

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!

You are history in the making.

Beloveds,  you are making history.

In fact, you are:

History in the making.

A legacy being fulfilled.

A promise kept by The Universe.

Your life has done so much more than you will ever comprehend.

You see where you have not yet gotten. The Universe sees where you are headed.

Be encouraged. Your best days are in front of you!

What kind of history are you making? Make it a positive one. make it a game changing one. Make it one where people are in awe of your integrity, your faith and your joy.

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I can’t wait to see what ye shall create. I root for you everyday. I pray for you every single day. Be encouraged. Your dream shall come true. Enjoy your today. It’s the only one you’ll get. I love you.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

It’s okay.

It’s okay.

To be afraid.

Everything WILL be alright.

It’s okay.

To have doubts.

Everything will work itself out in the wash.

It’s okay to feel.

Everyone has doubts and fears. That’s okay.

STOP beating yourself up for being human, beloveds. We ALL experience times where we doubt ourselves. It really IS okay.

I am sooooooooo thankful a job has not fallen from the job tree yet. I have needed this time off to heal and to grow. I have been working most of my life without a real break.

Before the jobs, I helped raise siblings and nieces and nephews.

Growing up, all we knew was hard. My life, up t now, has been viewed through the lens of hard.

Yet, God has been teaching me to see the beauty I EVERYTHING. Hard has not been a punishment. That’s what I used to think. I now know hard is just…hard.

Life can be hard. Life can be harsh. So what? We can still do our thangs, beloveds.

56 is growing up me. This morning, she sat me down and showed me a treasure trove of experience she has gathered through the years.

56 also showed me all my tears. She showed me how many times I have tried. She showed me ALL of my failures and commended me for still trying. There was a LOT of failure.

Finally, beloveds, she showed me every footstep that I had ever taken had brought me to THIS day.

The Bible says THIS is the day that the Lord has made. We are to REJOICE AND BE GLAD IN IT.

I am learning, in this hard, how to rejoice in EVERY day.

Be encouraged. It really is okay. Plus, it’s perfectly okay to not be okay until we become okay again.

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Everything will be alright. in the meantime, continue being good to yourself. Be encouraged. Those two words uplift my spirit every time I see them or say them.

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!

You are not responsible.

You are not responsible.

For my happiness.

Then again, I am not responsible for yours.

You are not responsible.

For my choices.

Then again, I am not responsible for yours.

You are not responsible.

To right my wrong(s).

Then again, I am not responsible for yours.

You are not responsible.

For my feelings.

Then again, I am not responsible for yours!

taking ownership of me,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: You are not responsible for others, beloveds. We love, yes. Yet, we must allow others to do and to be themselves.

We can’t control love. All we can do is to give love. We ought not handle care carelessly. All we can do is care. We can not control what others do. All we can do is respond with thoughtfulness, care, and love.

Even if we have to walk away from those who choose to treat our love and care in a reckless manner.

Life is short. Cut the strings for/from those you love. If you feel as though you must tie someone down, to “earn/have” their love, let them go. Your strings are your answer and their prison. You want partners, not hostages, eh?

Have an amazing weekend.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

You have been set apart. You have NOT been set aside.

Good morning, beloveds. And, it IS a GOOD morning!

I just stopped ’round to speak life to those who have been feeling like they have been dismissed and/or not counted. This is not so.

You have been set apart. You have NOT been set aside. There is a difference.

I used to feel like an outsider. I used to feel like I was on the outside of life looking in at others enjoying their lives.

I felt like a kid with their face pressed against a glass. which was separating them from some wonderful goodies..

I no longer feel that way. now I’m just waiting my turn. I may be asked to take the stage. In the meantime, I’m going to have a good time being a stagehand and helping out where I can. I will help someone else. I will be in the audience for someone else. I will give them a standing ovation for their try.

And if I never get called to the stage, I will still be grateful. I will be thankful I was part of the show in any capacity. I don’t have to be the spotlight. I don’t have to be in the spotlight. I will happily hold the life for someone else.

I love writing. I love encouraging people. I love praying for people. I no longer worry about if others are receiving my words and my care. I send them anyway. My joy is in the writing My joy is in trying to connect. My joy is in the try. The rest is merely icing on the cake.

Life has not discarded you. You have been set aside for this time. This is your time. Take the stage. Build a stage. Clean the stage. Just do something. Just be available. Life will come calling. How shall you answer?

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: If you are feeling discarded about now, get ready. Life is fixing to open up to you. You have not been forgotten. You are just bring prepared. Enjoy the respite. Enjoy your day.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!