Have you ever been walking to a destination and it felt like it was taking forever to get there? Some of you are thinking no, because you have a car. I’ am talking about before you had a car. LOL. I was doing my morning walk the other day and it seemed as though I was never going to get to my destination and finally I was there. The next day I wanted to challenge myself to walk further than what I would usually walk. Now keep in mind the whole walk there is incline and it’s a few miles. I was use to the normal walk but now I wanted challenge myself to get the full benefits of the workout. The pain and fatigue was getting to me but I knew that in order to get the body that I wanted I had to walk through the pain and think about a drink of water later. I distanced that cold drink of water far from my mind and kept my mind on the ultimate goal and that was to climb that hill. With persistence and perseverance I MADE IT! For some of you that may not know I am an author that wrote a book entitled Identifying & Breaking the Cycle and just started private practice as a Marriage & Family Therapist Intern, working towards my license. Two weeks ago I was really frustrated that I was not getting the exposure for my book that I wanted, and on top of that cliental was slow at my private practice. Even though I have done multiple radio interviews I was still feeling that I should have been on Oprah by now or something. As I began to vent to my dear friend Lainey Leno, she asked me when did you publish your book? In my mind I’m thinking what does that have to do with anything we are talking about, but I went ahead and answered her question. I responded, “In May”. She then went on “It hasn’t even been a year yet”. I paused for a minute and thought about her rebuttal. My friend stopped me right in my tracks of venting. She was right it hadn’t been a year and I had been on this journey only for a short time. I had to silently laugh at myself because I sounded outright ridiculous. Just like I distanced that cold water from my conscious I had distanced sitting with Oprah from my brain and keep my mind on the ultimate goal and that is to uplift, motivate, and empower people. Our lives are an uphill journey sometimes with little or no water. However, the question is do you have the perseverance and persistence to keep going even when it doesn’t look like things or working in your favor or when you cannot see the finish line? Will you keep going when people lie on you and drag your name through the dirt? Will you keep going when you are doing everything you can and it still seems like the situation is not getting any better? Will you keep going? Let me tell you I kept going and I am continuing to go and everything is lining up in my favor. I haven’t got my sit down with Oprah yet but I know it is coming. I ask you to challenge yourself today and keep going even if you have stopped, don’t stay there GET BACK UP, you will get there just keep your mind on the ultimate goal, whatever your goal may be. Remember, you can DO ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST WHO GIVES YOU STRENGTH!!!!!!!!!!!!! KEEP GOING #BREAKINGTHECYCLE
Posted on: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 17:12:26 +0000
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