Okay, beloveds, I have an assignment for you. And, yes, I am asking you to DO this:
Click on the YouTube video above, grab an appropriate microphone of your choosing or making, and sing a love song to YOU. For YOU. For YOUR heart.
This may sound or seem completely ridiculous but I promise it won’t hurt. It will fill you with some love and joy. I promise.
You don’t have to use this song. Grab your favorite.
If you have been too hurt by loving or being loved by someone who has hurt you, be encouraged. Your heart CAN and WILL mend as you tend to your beautiful heart.
Then, EVERY day, beloveds, start filling your heart with POSITIVE, UPLIFTING words, songs and images. We need to replace the negative garbage we have all been guilty of filling our hearts with, over the years.
Give yourself the luxury of your best self. Whatever that looks like to YOU.
asking for A Friend, Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: Your heart needs you. Love yourself. I know I do. I know He does.
I love this song. It gets me fired up. It keeps me fired up..
Belief is a powerful tool. You will never make things happen unless you believe in yourself, and in your dreams.
Believe that you can do it. Know that you can do something magnificent with your life.
Believe in yourself. There are things that only you can do. There are things. only you were meant to put on this earth. We need what you have. You need to produce what you have.
What do you believe in? Do you believe in you? Why not? Why not you? Why not now?
I dare you to find out, beloveds.
asking for A Friend,
Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: Believe for it. Just because it’s hard does not mean it is unattainable. Be relentless in pursuing your dreams. Let’s get on with it. Let’s do this. Together.
“I’m tired, God. Let my actions be my prayer today.”
My actual prayer, this morning.
I woke super tired. I was super tired from yesterday’s try. I think I over tried.
I wanted to see results. I saw no results.
I NEEDED to hear from God. God was silent. He was there. Silent. Waiting for ME to do MY part. To give MY effort.
I gave my effort. I waited. Tired.
This morning, even day felt sorry for me. Day, in consultation with lazy and later, gave me permission to rest today.
I told day that today and I had thangs to do. So, I got up, five hours past my normal time. Still, I rose.
I told God I was tired of living on this razor’s edge of not knowing what this financial day will bring.
Truth be told, beloveds, finances, or lack thereof, does NOT determine how are day shall be.
I had grown absolutely miserable before I had to give up my job. And, it wasn’t the job that had me miserable. I was miserable because I wasn’t 100% investing in making my dreams come true.
Yea, I was taking wobbly steps. But, I had been walking in hidden skepticism and self doubt. I didn’t know that I had the chops to face the constant criticism that comes with putting oneself 100% out there.
I put myself out there 100% in this blog. I took the leap and put myself, my dreams, my hopes, my heart 100% out there in all of my life.
The results have been underwhelming for everyone but my fam and my couple legit friends.
All else dismiss me. They don’t know me or my heart. ALL I can do is to keep presenting my heart EVERY day. Results be damned.
It takes courage to do so. I cried, like a baby, the other day as my efforts, my heart, appeared to be dismissed.
I am THANKFUL for those tears. I am GRATEFUL for the rain that watered my dreams that day.
After my THREE cries, I examined my “failure”. I turned it this way. I shook it. Hard. I peered at it that way. I pondered. I considered.
Ah.
Aha!
Suddenly, Wisdom showed with The Lord and began to point out where I had succeeded. They laughed with me and showed me where I could have added a bit more.
They joked with me and let me know it will NEVER be about the actual event. The IMPORTANT thing is the TRY.
Yes. Then be okay with the results, They said. I will.
The necessary thing is the KNOWLEDGE gained from the try.
Did I learn? I did. Then celebrate wisdom gained. I shall.
The crucial thing is our PERSPECTIVE we take from what we think has been dismissal of our efforts.
Did folk not like you or did they simply not respond in the manner you hoped?
Even if folk did not/do not care for me, for my try, I can take comfort in the fact that I DID try. I will try again.
I just stopped by to encourage someone. Starting with me.
Be encouraged. Try. Put yourself out there. Our say will come. Our day will come. In the meantime, go make someone else’s day!
asking for A Friend, Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: You CAN. You WILL. I’ll keep saying these things EVERY day. Until you believe me. Until you believe in you. Then, I will say it again…
Rather, to me, my voice sounds tired. A real problem when I use my voice for a living.
Since last year’s tornado, I have felt soul tired. Only someone who has been soul tired will know what I mean.
A tired, from a blow soooooooooooooo devastating, it takes one’s breath away!
I have experienced many a blow in my 56 years. The tornado was the last straw. Theeeeeeee last of many straws. Ah, God…
I’m working THROUGH the tired. I don’t know where it ends. I don’t know if there will ever be an end to it.
What if THIS voice is the ONLY voice I will have moving forward?!😳🌪
I hope not. In the meantime, I must use the voice I have NOW. Muted though she may now be. She is STILL me.
A wounded me?
Perhaps.
A resilient me?
You damn betcha!
Today, I speak. Shakily. Tiredly. Unapologetically.
I have been through some thangs. Perhaps, beloveds, you shall find your strength 💪 listening to my tired voice. Oh, I hope.
asking for A Friend, Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: Keep on working through the tired. It won’t always feel hard. Okay, it may but do it anyway. Keep working your way through your goals. I am having too much fun to worry about how hard things are today. I may think of that tomorrow. In the meantime, I am enjoying my day. All of it.
I choose to be my own hero. I will rescue myself. I will stand up for myself. I will fight for myself.
I will put in the work. I will not sit around waiting for someone else to do things for me. I will do the things that I can do for myself.
I will work until I succeed. I will pursue until I have conquered. I am the champion of my life.
putting in champion’s work, Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: Put in the work as the champion that you are. Champions win. They also fail. Yet, champions understand this is simply a part of life. Push through the hard. Get to the other side. This was meant to be easy. Let’s go!
Beloveds, ask me WHY my dreams keep waking me up at 4:00 o’clock in the morning?!
All week. Every day. 4:00 o’clock in the morning. I don’t know if the universe is testing me or poking fun at me. either way, good Egads!
And every morning I have been forced to make a choice. I can go back to bed. Or I can work on my dreams. I choose to work on my dreams.
I have spent too much of my life choosing a former when it came to my dreams. Of course I would get up and rush to work and help pursue the dreams of others without question.
I am flipping the script. I am writing a new chapter. I am going to finish this book of mine. this dream of mine. I will. if I am the only one to read it this damn book is going to be written!
Get up. it’s time. You have things to do. You have dreams to fulfill. You have lives to impact. You have your own life to impact. Get up and go. Don’t wait.
asking for A Friend, Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: We are so much more than we have been given ourselves credit for. We have tried many, many, many, many things. Let’s try making our dreams come true, shall we? Take one step. Just one. Then take another.
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