Words mean nothing to her. Not when time and again they have proven to be nothing but air. She might want to trust you. But when your actions show her nothing different to any others, it is hard for her to stay open to you. She waits only because she senses your soul. She felt your Real and the spirit in her that "felt" you at the start wants to believe that it was not mistaken. She doesn't want to walk away. But she will if she feels she has to. She has been through too much to go through another hell disguised as a possible heaven. She is wiser now and easily weeds out the demons who seek only to use and abuse her, and rape her of the soul she has left.

Words: © 2019 Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY


BE THE MESSAGE


You know what it feels like. You’ve been there. You might be there NOW. You know the pain that resides deep down in the souls of the lost and brokenhearted. It’s not enough to JUST know. It’s not enough to care. You have to SHOW that you care, that you UNDERSTAND. You have to be real enough that you ARE the example others can look towards, the strength that they could hold onto, a glimmer of hope that everything will work itself out and be all right. Even if everything is NOT ok for you, you can do this for them because you still have HOPE and faith in something far bigger and greater than yourself and your circumstances.


No one might know what is going on with you. All they see is a smile and positivity, the words of encouragement to others, the empathy radiating from your soul when you are confided in with others’ fears and secrets. Even if they knew what you were going through, you cannot stand there and simply tell them what to do or to have faith that it’ll be ok. You have to TRULY believe it too yourself, not just for them, but for YOU.


You have to be MORE than a message. You have to be a living, breathing EXAMPLE. You have to show through your own ACTIONS that no matter what, giving up is NEVER an option, that what is happening now can only make you STRONGER. You have to show that even if it breaks you for a time, destroys you so completely you feel like there is nothing left to recognize in the aftermath, the world CONTINUES. YOU continue.


Life goes on. And you have to BE there, pushing forward and striving higher than ever before. You have to show that your circumstances do NOT define you, even if they help SHAPE you and the path your future might follow. You have to show them that pain is just a TOOL used to see what you are MADE of, to make you truly realize what is IMPORTANT to you, that which is precious and IRREPLACEABLE, and give you the burning courage to fight FOR it with everything you have. If you want to make a DIFFERENCE, YOU have to be the MESSAGE.


© Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

BE STRONGER

There is strength and then there is STRENGTH. One is seen and one is DONE. True strength is not always seen but exists despite anonymity, persevering because the one who bears it KNOWS and that is all that truly matters.

There are days when you wake and wonder what and why. There are moments and events and circumstances where understanding eludes you. Regardless, “strength” keeps going, keeps moving forward, no matter the pace, because it trusts in something bigger than can be seen.

Every day holds potential for GROWTH. Everything is “designed” to make us stronger and better equipped to “deal” with whatever may come. Accept that, embrace it, and just keep on doing “you” the way it is “right” in your soul.

True strength needs no recognition, even as it empowers and inspires, albeit not always even knowing it. Regardless of anything external, know yourself and be at peace with it, letting your life be your “example” and your actions be your “words”.

© 2015 Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

COMMITTED

EVERYthing you do counts for SOMEthing: A step forward or a step back; a smile or a frown; laughter or tears; progress or regression. EVERYthing you do should be to make you BETTER; constant desire to IMPROVE as an individual and in every facet of your life. For when YOU improve you unwittingly help OTHERS do the same.

What do you DREAM of? What do you THINK of? What ACTIONS are you making?

When you know what DRIVES you the DECISIONS you make become easy. For when you know what you want and you are COMMITTED to it 120% you do everything you can to make sure it HAPPENS. You operate at 212 degrees with EVERYthing you do.

ARE YOU COMMITTED?!

© 2015 Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

ACTS OF KINDNESS

It doesn’t take much – a smile, a hug, a few words of encouragement – to make a difference. You never know just what they might do, how significant such a small gesture might be to a soul in pain or struggling. Sometimes one small act of kindness, conscious or not, can change the course of another’s life – change their perspective, the words going over in their mind that they tell themselves, and in turn, their beliefs about themselves that from their actions stem.

We are not alone in this world. We are surrounded by billions of other souls, none any less significant or less precious than our own. We might never know the majority of them, never come into contact with multitudes, but we can also never UNDERestimate the effect we can make, even on those we will never physically meet – the words they read online or in print, the images they see that imprint into their psyche, the way everything comes together to form their reality of themselves.

No matter WHO you are - your “status” in life through power and position, the experiences that shaped you and created the person you are today – you can make a difference in someone ELSE’S life. All of us can. Just by opening our eyes to our hearts and understanding that even if one smiles does not mean there is not pain in their soul, because one laughs does not mean that the sound of tears does not echo louder inside them, when one extends a helping hand does not mean that they know how to deal with what is going on in their own life.

By realizing this, we can start to see how one small act of kindness every day can help not only others, but also OURSELVES. When you are in pain and give a smile you do not feel because you cannot bear to see another in pain can slowly warm your heart. Laughing with another even when you want to cry can slowly ease the burden of your tears. Extending a hand to help another in need can slowly give a glow that spreads through your soul, knowing that everything in time and for a purpose.

By changing something we might not even think we changed, we CAN make a difference. Making a difference in the life of another can ripple effect into the lives of those we do not even know, spread further than we could ever fathom, and start a chain reaction that changes more than we might possibly imagine. ONE small act of kindness might not change the world, but it is a START, for it starts with US, and when we change OURSELVES, we have the power to change ANYthing.

© Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

I CHOOSE...

I choose to live my life the way I want to. Not the way anyone else wants me to live it, but the way I want it to be. I choose to make CONSCIOUS choices that will take me in the direction of my dreams and only bring me one step closer to fulfilling my life’s purpose. I choose NOT to let my life be dictated by random events and circumstances, and even if such events occur, I choose to make them WORK for me, by seeing the OPPORTUNITY for learning and growth in them.

I choose to CHANGE whatever is going on in my life that does not rest easy with my soul, aware that I am responsible for my own happiness, taking accountability for my own actions and decisions. I choose NOT to make excuses for my shortcomings or perceived failures, knowing that anything I do not get right or succeed in the first time is only teaching me how to become BETTER.

I choose to give freely of myself, time, and resources, in the pursuit of my vision in helping motivate and inspire others, and aid in the betterment of the lives of those not myself. I choose NOT to let myself be abused anymore by those that would seek to drain me of everything I have, standing up for myself and knowing when to say “no” and “enough is enough”.

I choose to be PROUD of who I am and what I stand for, strong in my beliefs and convictions, uncompromising in the foundation of my principles. I choose NOT to see myself as a victim or feeling self pity if those who do not share my values hate on me and try to tear me down, scrutinizing my every word or action in order to bring me down to their level, but stand firm in what I am about.

I choose to rely on my INSTINCT, knowing that it will always lead me true, unconsciously having in mind my best interests at heart, no matter what my mind may think about the matter. I choose NOT to care for what others think I should do and be, because it is not THEIR life that I live but my own, and no one is responsible for it but ME. In the end, I will be the one who looks back on my life and will either regret it or not. Thus I CHOOSE TO LIVE MY LIFE THE WAY I WANT TO. So there are NO regrets.

© Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

A SINGLE DREAM

It’s not always the big things that matter. It’s not always “success”. Most times it’s the LITTLE things.
 
It’s the SINGLE dream in your soul – the one that matters more than anything else ever has or will. It’s that single dream that “carries” you through and makes each day worth waking up for. It’s that single dream that “sets” your footsteps for that day. It’s that single dream that you spend your life striving “for”.
 
Dreams are what keep us ALIVE. They give our SOUL something to cling to in the storm. They give us HOPE for tomorrow. They fuel the FAITH that everything will be “ok” in the end. Dreams are far more POWERFUL than any reality we might find ourselves in because they let us “wander”.
 
A SINGLE dream can spark a multitude of thoughts. A multitude of thoughts can create unlimited actions. Unlimited actions can make an infinite difference in not JUST your life. An infinite difference can have an effect beyond even the WILDEST imagining. The wildest imagining BEGINS with a single dream.
 
Dream a single dream but do not STOP there. Dream until you have NO more breath. Watch your dreams spark dreams and life into OTHER souls. Make a DIFFERENCE. BE the difference.
 
© Rosie Chee

 

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

EVOLUTION

Those whom I have let know and walk beside me can see how I have changed, the evolution that has occurred, and know that it is not yet over. Those who do not know me can also see in the time that they have known of me that something has changed and can only watch as that change continues to unfold.

I remember the person I was. I know that person. I understand her. I have seen how far she has come, how she has changed and the difference the changes have made. I also know how she is the same, the aspects that have grown stronger, darker, harder and more resilient, even as they are nothing as they were yet are.

I know where the woman I am is now. I know how conflicted is her heart and how close to complete breaking was her soul. I know the chaos that flees through her mind, the darkness that sometimes overshadows the light. I also know that it is a place she cannot stay.

I see where the evolution of my being can take me. I know that nothing is always as it seems and that a huge part of my future lies in the decisions and actions I choose upon in the now. I know that there is more growth to come, but that it can only make me better than who I am today.

Far from where I once was, but still far from where I will ultimately be, I can only make the choice to walk forward with courage and positivity, knowing that I am not alone, my strength drawn from Him, my refuge in Him, and that there is nothing that will come at me I cannot face without fear.

© 2014 Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

CHANGE IS A PROCESS

Change does not happen overnight. It does not happen in an instant. It does not happen just because we want it to. Change happens when we decide to make a stand and ACT on that decision. It happens when we determine that we are no longer going to live our life the way we are. It happens when our hearts and minds are in agreement with each other. It happens when we are prepared to work HARD to MAKE it happen.

Change starts in the HEART. It has to start in the heart to become a conscious thought. When it becomes a conscious thought we are AWARE of the reasons behind our actions and can GUIDE them in the direction we WANT to go. When we ensure our actions are in line with the change we seek we start to make progress. We start to see change. We start to BECOME what we want to be.

Change is a PROCESS. The desire and the decision to change may take but a moment, but the actual change itself is gradual, like the budding of a flower, slowly opening up to reveal the beauty hidden inside, embracing the world and adding one more wonder to it.

Once the events are set in MOTION they cannot be stopped and that flower can and will continue to bloom even in the harshest conditions if it is nurtured in life and purpose, or it will bloom for a brief while and die. The same can be said of us, in that we will continue to grow as long as we have purpose and passion, as long as we strive to constantly evolve and become better, our hearts and our minds determining the change that will occur, but if not, we will wilt and lose our delight, our sparkle, our shine, and we do NOT want to let that happen.

CONSTANT CHANGE FOR THE BETTER! CONSTANT MOVEMENT OF HEARTS AND MINDS AND ACTIONS! CONSTANT WORK GOING ON INSIDE US TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD!

© Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

ACT OF KINDNESS

It doesn’t take much – a smile, a hug, a few words of encouragement – to make a difference. You never know just what they might do, how significant such a small gesture might be to a soul in pain or struggling. Sometimes one small act of kindness, conscious or not, can change the course of another’s life – change their perspective, the words going over in their mind that they tell themselves, and in turn, their beliefs about themselves that from their actions stem.

We are not alone in this world. We are surrounded by billions of other souls, none any less significant or less precious than our own. We might never know the majority of them, never come into contact with multitudes, but we can also never UNDERestimate the effect we can make, even on those we will never physically meet – the words they read online or in print, the images they see that imprint into their psyche, the way everything comes together to form their reality of themselves.

No matter WHO you are - your “status” in life through power and position, the experiences that shaped you and created the person you are today – you can make a difference in someone ELSE’S life. All of us can. Just by opening our eyes to our hearts and understanding that even if one smiles does not mean there is not pain in their soul, because one laughs does not mean that the sound of tears does not echo louder inside them, when one extends a helping hand does not mean that they know how to deal with what is going on in their own life.

By realizing this, we can start to see how one small act of kindness every day can help not only others, but also OURSELVES. When you are in pain and give a smile you do not feel because you cannot bear to see another in pain can slowly warm your heart. Laughing with another even when you want to cry can slowly ease the burden of your tears. Extending a hand to help another in need can slowly give a glow that spreads through your soul, knowing that everything in time and for a purpose.

By changing something we might not even think we changed, we CAN make a difference. Making a difference in the life of another can ripple effect into the lives of those we do not even know, spread further than we could ever fathom, and start a chain reaction that changes more than we might possibly imagine. ONE small act of kindness might not change the world, but it is a START, for it starts with US, and when we change OURSELVES, we have the power to change ANYthing.

© 2013 Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

A GREAT ATTITUDE

The way you START your day determines how the day will go. The way your day starts begins in your MIND. Your mind is controlled unconsciously by your HEART and your heart is merely the puppet on the strings of your SOUL.

If your soul is at peace with yourself and the world around you, your heart will be at ease and your mind will be calm, you welcome to the day before you, your soul opening its arms to embrace the new day of OPPORTUNITY and chance. Your soul’s smile will shine through your eyes, as bright as the sun that streams across the world in a wash of renewing light. Your mind will refresh itself of strength, preparing for the day to come, for that day shall become the start of the rest of the days of your LIFE.

A great ATTITUDE is the reflection of the state of your mind and can only exist when your soul is accepting of yourself and your circumstances, understanding your place in the world and knowing what you must do to create IMPACT. A great attitude can propel your FORWARD into destiny, through obstacles that try to deter you, because greatness brings forth life from passion and passion is UNWAVERING in the midst of negativity.

Start your day by peering into your SOUL. SEE what resides there. Give it permission to become your VOICE. Let the world HEAR that voice in the attitude you carry with you, the actions that stem from that attitude, that comes from your thoughts, that are consequences of your heart, that is your soul speaking.

© 2013 Rosie Chee

2013 | Day 18: RIDICULOUSLY AMAZING

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

RIDICULOUSLY AMAZING

Today is a NEW day. The sun will rise on a FRESH world. The stage opens on a DIFFERENT you.

Yesterday is GONE – look back only to LEARN from it and move FORWARD into your FUTURE. Tomorrow is not YET here – what you do TODAY will determine your tomorrow and you will not see the true effects of any IMPACT you make until then. Today is HERE – it is time to do something REMARKABLE and make it AMAZING enough to want to REMEMBER for a long time.

You have a chance to create new OPPORTUNITY. You have an opportunity to EVOLVE into a higher being. Your evolution has the POTENTIAL to inspire many others and CHANGE their lives.

USE today to make a DIFFERENCE. Let your smile LIGHT up the world around you. Make it ridiculously AMAZING!

© 2013 Rosie Chee

2013 | Day 6: SMALL CHANGES. BIG DIFFERENCE.

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

SMALL CHANGES. BIG DIFFERENCE.

The SMALLEST change can make ALL the difference in the world. Changing only ONE thing in your life can change EVERYTHING. One tiny ADJUSTMENT to your ATTITUDE or THINKING can turn around the way you FEEL and ACT. ONE little thing can be the BIGGEST thing there is.

You think from your HEART. You act off what you THINK. Your life is determined by your ACTIONS.

If you want to see a CHANGE in your life, change ONE thing. If you change anything, change your HEART. What goes in must come OUT. What you ABSORB is ultimately REFLECTED back out into the universe for OTHERS to absorb. What you send out can be the cause of or create a change for or in someone ELSE.

YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. But first you must make a difference in your OWN life. You must take CONTROL of your OWN heart. You must determine who you want to BE and what you want to GIVE life. When you know and are on your personal path of evolution THEN you can be good FOR others.

© 2013 Rosie Chee

2013 | Day 1: ARCHITECTS OF DESTINY

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

ARCHITECTS OF DESTINY

Your thoughts are the BEGINNING of the process that creates your ACTIONS, and your actions determine your DESTINY. A dream manifested does not happen by chance, but by a carefully ORCHESTRATED series of events happening in a predetermined and perfect order. That order starts in your MIND, before your heart is even aware of it, and creeps into your soul, so that it INFUSES into your being and you cannot help BUT do everything in your power to bring about its emergence in reality.

Thoughts are POWERFUL, and everything born of man’s creation started as a single thought in the mind of either a madman or a genius. There is genius in madness and madness in genius, and both are beautiful in their own right, albeit through different means and realities.

Reality is in the perspective of mind that PERCEIVES it. Reality that has yet to take on physical form can be seen in another dimension, that of the SOUL, of dreams, of design and CREATION. Reality can come from something as SMALL and SIMPLE as a passing whisper of a thought floating through the empty spaces of one’s mind, the butterfly touch of a lover’s caress across your vulnerable soul, the quiver of a tear in the depths you never knew you had.

Your tomorrow is determined by your living of TODAY. You set in motion events that roll into each other with EVERY action, every word, every thought, and every expression. You CREATE your own reality with your progression towards your dreams. Your DREAMS determine your destiny.

Your dreams are created in the tiny flickers of thought through your mind, in the howling tempests that surge through your heart, the waves of change that wash through your soul echoing with the possibility of what could be. Your dreams create a desire in you to see them become something MORE than a dream, a life you can smile in, bask in with joy. Your thoughts are the ARCHITECTS of your destiny, for they form the shape of your dreams, and your dreams determine the path you CHOOSE to walk.

© 2013 Rosie Chee

2012 | Day 252: I SAY POSSIBLE

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

I SAY POSSIBLE

You say “impossible”; I say POSSIBLE. You say “can’t”; I say TRY. You say “but”; I say DARE. You give excuses; I just ACT.

Life can be lived through INaction or ACTION. Everything has a consequence, whether acted on or not, the final outcome determined by the deed of the doer, whether they ignore what others said “could” be done and just go for it anyway, or stay immobile and eventually become stagnant in their journey because they refuse to venture out of their comfort zone and what they know.

Everything can SEEM “impossible” to those who have no vision, whose hearts and minds are not open to possibility, never willing to take the risk, but “impossible” is just a word, MEANINGLESS because ANYthing IS possible when you put your essence into a dream.

You stand by and watch; I get out there and DO. You’re afraid to make mistakes; I see any made along the way as LESSONS. You don’t want to get your hands dirty; I’m not afraid to be roughed up in the pursuit of my DREAMS.

At the end of the day will you look back and say “I tried”, knowing you gave it everything you had, or will you always wonder what “could have been”? That choice is entirely up to YOU. Your decisions and actions today determine where the journey of life will take you tomorrow, whether further or CLOSER to your dreams, only ever wishing for them or making your fantasy a REALITY.

© 2012 Rosie Chee

2012 | Day 251: CHANGING YOUR THINKING

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

CHANGING YOUR THINKING

It’s a lot harder than it sounds, to change your thinking, for your thoughts are a culmination of years of processes, mountains of turmoil, lifetimes of pain and experience all moulding your mind, setting your beliefs and foundations for how you live your life and are, consciously and unconsciously, every little thing having an effect on our psyche. But you cannot change a BEHAVIOUR without FIRST changing the THOUGHT behind it, the motivating force pushing for that change, because no matter how much you WANT to change and be different, someone else, a new creature forged from fire and ice, you will never be completely anew unless you let GO of your old ways of thinking and embrace the NEW.

A negative person does not instantly become positive. An unhappy individual is not transformed by happiness overnight. Those who hate are not filled with love as if it were something they could merely purchase for the asking. It takes a lot of CONCENTRATED time AND effort to CHANGE oneself, especially if the changes sought are so drastic.

It takes a lifetime to UNlearn another lifetime of learning, lessons well taught, so deep that they are a part of yourself and to seek them out for destruction or replacement is difficult, for the mind may not want to let go of them, comfortable in its knowledge of those patterns, unwilling to harbour something different and unknown. But GROWTH comes with a price, and that price is the RELEASE of the old, sometimes things that have kept us going and allowed us to survive for so long, and if you are not prepared to make that sacrifice, even if it is going to make you BETTER, then only YOU will miss out on the blessings that await your new life.

It might take time, and sometimes that time is an eternity, but be PATIENT and PERSEVERE, for in the end you know the end result WILL be WORTH it, the effort and pain of change, the call to arms of encouragement and support in that change, and the journey that continues to mould you for the greater good. Change to make a DIFFERENCE, not just because you feel the “need” to, but when you NEED to.

© 2012 Rosie Chee

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My "Training for a Marathon" column article this month is on Provision of Energy and Causes of Fatigue during the Marathon