MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

REBORN

Sometimes we need to die in order to know what it truly means to live. Sometimes we need to forget our lives before and just let ourselves live in the now. Sometimes we need to break down the walls of everything we were and create a new being. Sometimes we must experience the greatest happiness and have it torn from us and suffer, so that we can see the truth in the destruction and pain, and give ourselves a real chance to make our world right with a brand new beginning.

Dying does not always mean leaving everything you were behind. You will never be completely different, even as you are not the same person that entered the flames. Dying means burning away the weakness and developing the strength, finding new strength and sharpening the edges of the resolve that helped you survive so long. The difference will be in what the world sees, their eyes suddenly open as realization that you have always been what you said you were, but now you will not hide any part of it.

Dying is valuing yourself enough to take a stand, to admit you’re not invincible, not infallible, not a machine, and knowing when enough is enough and it’s time to start taking care of you, instead of just always pushing through and taking on so much you know there will eventually come a breaking point. Dying is reaching that breaking point and letting it go. It is letting yourself be broken, but not accepting such a state, putting yourself back together with wisdom alongside strength, so it does not happen again.

Dying means letting go of anything that might have held you back. It is finding complete acceptance in all that you are, all aspects of light and dark in your soul and now, instead of the darkness keeping you alive, choosing to let your light be the source of what keeps you going. It is embracing the woman who has long hidden inside the warrior’s armour, letting your heart be seen even as you still keep it locked up and only precious few inside, those rare true souls who truly cherish and understand it.

Dying is making one sacrifice for another. The sacrifice you make though you know will be worth it, for each evolution of you tears away the layers that were once a cold, emotionless machine who chose to be a rock island in the world, revealing the true heart that has been buried so deep for so long, breathing new life into it. Terminator to Warrior to Angel, saved by grace and reborn by fire, stronger and wiser and finding the beauty in the beast, walking forward without looking back.

© Rosie Chee

Lipo-Morph Week 1

Lipo-Morph

I started using Antaeus Labs' LipoMorph on Monday.

My meals are usually within eight hours re the 16-hour fast/8-hour eating window re Lean Gains and since September have been with a Carb Backloading approach.
 

Monday - 2 caps post-meal @ 0100 and 2 caps post-meal @ 2308 (note that the 0100 "Sunday's" dosage was re Sunday's post-work meal @ 0000-0100)
Tuesday - 2 caps post-meal @ 0000 (0000 was midnight, leading into Wednesday)
Wednesday - None
Thursday - 2 caps post-meal @ 1748
Friday - 2 caps post-meal @ 1342
Saturday - 2 caps post-meal @ 1452 and 2 caps post-meal @ 2045
Sunday - 2 caps post-meal @ 1055

The cooling in mouth after dosing each time - much like the cooling sensation one would experience on the skin after using Stop Pain Cold.

Body Statistics

Saturday: 10.2% bodyfat at 113.6 pounds.

To give an idea re change in girths, last Sunday to Saturday I lost 2 cm in each my shoulders and waist, with -1 cm in hips.

Training 

Monday - OFF
Tuesday - started but stopped after warm-up/stretching due to extreme chest pains and difficulty breathing
Wednesday - HIIT Run
Thursday - Full-Body
Friday - HIIT Run + Shoulders/Arms/Abs
Saturday - 20-min Run + Full-Body
Sunday - HIIT Run

Nutrition

Meals Monday and Tuesday were not what I would consider "ideal" or the "best" for me, but they were had post-work, with 1-2 hours spent each meal.
Wednesday, because of circumstances, ended up being a "fast", which, given the previous two days (and lack of training), was ok.
Thursday and Friday have been "good" for me.
Saturday I had two meals, my second my henceforth planned "once-a-week-cheat" meal.
Today I had "breakfast" and will eat again later as well, for two meals.
 

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

ALL SOUL

Your soul has traversed the darkest dimensions, slowly returning to the light, emerging to let itself glow again in the world, albeit like a shy bud warily opening to the winter sun, wondering if the frost will melt or try to kill it while it is vulnerable. It has suffered the deepest heartache possible, pain over and over, because it was naïve and wanted to believe that it could trust the “love” claimed, now left wondering if all words are anything but emptiness, promises only promising time waiting until they are broken.

The very first love of your soul returns, causing mixed emotions because of everything that has happened, the desire to embrace it again strong, but instinct whispering caution stronger, knowing that unless any words spoken can be backed up with action, nothing has changed, even as everything has changed, and there is no place in your life for any ambivalence. Only surety has a future in your future and anything that cannot prove its truth is not sure, requiring weeding with everything else toxic.

The darkness of your darkness has been banished, almost as if it knew you finally realized its pure motives, not the actions that almost perfectly matched the words and would have been believed had there not been unrest in your soul and you not known the truth behind the words leading to the actions. You strive to keep it from you, not wanting to give it any more power than it has been recently allowed in your life, seeking only to take from the experience instinct leading you in the same way as it is for your first love.

The life that you live now you want free of clutter, cobwebs that can become tangled mazes seeking to throw you off course, devils disguised as angels wanting only to wreak havoc on any peace, negative wanting to drown anything flourishing, winter wanting to take over summer light and create a world of endless darkness. You know what life you want and you are strong enough now to take control of its creation, finally realizing your true strength, not the illusion of it you had before.

You might be in one of the hardest parts of your life’s journey, but you are definitely coming “into your own”, despite thinking you had already, older and wiser than even when you endured the deepest heartbreak and most complete destruction of soul, a warrior recreated and transformed from the terminator, a phoenix reborn through the hottest of hell’s fires, now part machine and part human but all soul, with the power of that soul and its attitude softness carved into hard edges, a true heart still its essence.

© 2014 Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

ORDINARY TO EXTRAORDINARY

All of us are born a masterpiece and yet we are all “ordinary”. When we open our eyes for the first time, we might have an amazing destiny “planned” for us, but we have yet to step into that destiny, for it is determined based on the choices we make throughout our lifetime. Prince or pauper, when we come into this life we are the SAME. We are helpless and weak, reliant on others to “guide” us on our life’s journey.

As we get older this CHANGES. We can either choose to STAY as we are, or we can rise above what happens to us, for circumstances are not always easy and this world is cruel, determined to take each one of us and wear us down until we are nothing but dust. Those who REFUSE to let themselves be overcome by the “plague” of the world and fight back, digging in their heels and pushing back against the forces of “darkness” coming at them, taking a stand, are those who “transform” from “ordinary” into “EXTRAordinary”.

You become “extraordinary” by taking CONTROL of your fate, by determining your destiny YOURSELF, instead of letting the world “dictate” what and who you should be. The world is going to do all it can to “test” you, to put you in the most destructive circumstances, to see if it can break you and leave you bleeding on the cold, stone pavement for all to trample over as they pass. The “ordinary” who look inside themselves and find something GREATER than where they find themselves become something else altogether as they “transcend” their circumstances.

All of us are born “ordinary”, with the POTENTIAL to become “extraordinary”, a “masterpiece” on the walls of time, for others to look up to as an example of how life should be lived, how hardship can be conquered and that what happens to us does not determine our destiny. Hardships, the burdens the world tries to sink us beneath, are all there to see WHO will rise above it and become those “extraordinary” leaders that others emulate and follow.

So no matter where you find yourself, no matter what your past has been like, no matter what you have seen and done, know that you can CHOOSE to use it all to make you into a “higher” being, a better version of you as strength is sought and found, willpower is caught and caged, determination and passion are unleashed alongside each other in your “fight” against the world, in your “battle” for life.

All of us are ordinary masterpieces. Some of us stay as we are and some of us “evolve” into something else altogether. What do you WANT to be? What will you CHOOSE to be?

© Rosie Chee

Photo by: Tony Mitchell

 

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

CREATING YOURSELF

Many things in life help you “find yourself”, a process that can be difficult and one not looked forward to, especially since looking inside oneself can be one of the most painful things a soul can do. But “finding yourself” is not the important thing. Knowing who you are and what you stand for IS important -but only because it will give you the tools and means to help you shape and form the person you want to BE.

Finding yourself is a key step in being able to create yourself. We should be ever changing and evolving as we go through life, experiencing everything in a vortex of emotion and feeling, logic and reason, soul and heart and mind transforming with every experience, consciously and UNconsciously, whether from necessity or simply because EVERYthing causes SOME change in a soul.

God gives us a lifetime to become the person we are MEANT to be. That means a lifetime of CREATING yourself. Evolving. Stepping into “new” versions of you. Choosing what to keep and what to cast away. Deciding what journey to take to get to your dreams. How to maneuver through the obstacles of life. Each and every decision we make, every turn we take, every step trodden, CREATES us. It “makes” us.

Not everyone will like what you are, the changes you make, the soul you reveal. That doesn’t matter. When you are REAL you WILL have “haters”, the critics, those who think your life should be different and you with it. What they think does NOT matter, for in the end, it is YOUR life and you are the one who must live it.

Life is about creating the BEST you possible. Someone YOU can be proud of. A legacy that will be remembered for the DIFFERENCE it made and the SOUL that touched others. Life might be about “finding yourself” as you begin your journey of “evolution”, but in the end, it becomes about “creating yourself”, as you shape the world around you to form a reality of dreams you can live in.

© 2014 Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

HOW TO LIVE

Life is a process and we are one within it. Sometimes we can be unsure. Well, not just sometimes, but a lot. Sometimes we can mistrust ourselves so much that we either never take the step we know we should or we hesitate so long that the time for it passes and we are left with the remnant of “what could have been” and a dream stuck in our soul.

However, no matter how long it takes, I believe that we eventually reach a point when we know to LISTEN to that inner voice and trust what it says, because it is His whispers in our soul, the instinct given to GUIDE us “through” life. It may take a lifetime, but the day WILL come when you are in acceptance of your life and everything that has happened up until that point and you will TRUST YOURSELF to know what is “best” for you and “see” the path you are supposed to take.

As soon as you STOP second-guessing yourself you will find that life becomes a “joy”, peace settling over your heart and soul. Decisions become easier as all the “what ifs?” and “buts” fall away to reveal the truth in your soul, the longings and desires, sometimes hidden, sometimes as clear as the sun on a cloudless day, there. The clamour that abounded before becomes a single voice, sometimes still, but always heard, “telling” you “how” to live.

You have to give yourself PERMISSION to listen. You have to trust that your inner compass is directed towards “true north”, the ultimate destination you are headed in, the journey that will teach you the most in life, what you need as it gifts you with experiences beyond your wildest imaginings, even for those of us who have been accused of “living” in our minds and imagination.

So, rise up. Set aside the ashes that have covered you. Rise like a Terminator and step forth from the flames. Let the world see what the fire has forged. Look out the world with eyes that have known more than they should and set your course FORWARD. Like a “machine” following GPS, follow the “call of your heart”, heeding instinct, letting the machine “be human” so that you can have the “best of both worlds”, experiencing everything not through just the logical, but emotional and soul as well, LIVING.

© 2014 Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

IN YOU

When you’re feeling low or down on yourself, wondering what value your life holds and whether you truly matter to anyone, remember that you are important to GOD and that He has a PLAN for your life, a PURPOSE for your FUTURE. In you lies a destiny no one else can fulfill. In you is something that He needs that no one else can provide. You might not yet know yourself what you are capable of and what strengths you hold in your heart, but they are there, and they are there for a PURPOSE, for you were designed with a purpose when you were created.

So on the days when you feel like you could disappear off the face of the planet and it wouldn’t make a difference, know that it WOULD to SOMEone, whether you know it or not. When you wonder if your absence would leave a hollow in anyone’s life, if they would even NOTICE you were gone, think of all the people in YOUR life and imagine what it would be like without the key players, then see YOURSELF in such a role in THEIR lives and understand the TRUTH that you DO matter.

There are things inside your soul far GREATER than you know of. There are gifts and abilities in your being you are not even AWARE of. YOU MATTER. YOU ARE IMPORTANT. YOU HAVE A PURPOSE. When you want to shut your eyes and see nothing but black, remember that NO ONE ELSE CAN BE YOU. Only YOU can be you and do what you do and be who you will be. ONLY YOU.

© 2013 Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

AMAZING THINGS

Sometimes we move through life so fast we do not give ourselves room to think, let alone breathe and “smell the roses”. Sometimes all the hustle is to cover up the fact that we are aching, the bustle to keep ourselves occupied from thinking. Sometimes we simply do not realize what we are doing until we suddenly stop for a moment and realize.

When we move so fast we can miss the things that are there for us, sometimes waiting, sometimes knocking on the glass, sometimes chasing after us, sometimes simply looking for the right moment. We might miss an opportunity we passed by so quickly we never even knew it was there. We might miss the stranger who could have become someone important given half a chance. We might miss what deep down we are truly seeking in keeping busy.

When we stop and allow our mind a moment of stillness we can hear that knocking, the pursuit, that little whisper inside telling us truths we might have been “running from”. We allow not just our mind rest, but our body too, allowing it opportunity to refresh as our soul renews. We can see what we’re doing to it and determine the steps to “right the wrong”.

Pausing, if only for what seems like a moment can be enough. It gives life a chance to “catch up” with the amazing things that it has been desirous of for you, the blessings He wants you to have, the opportunities that call for you alone. When you stop and rest you allow all the amazing things meant for you to finally reach you and when that happens, you can see your life start to change in new and different ways. Perhaps some you might not have thought to want or have again.

© 2013 Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

SKY EARTH FIRE

The sky rests above me quietly, knowing that it is far from the “top” of my world, the vast endlessness of space stretching out towards INFINITY eons above it.

The earth softly hums beneath me, cradling my footsteps as I tread upon its surface, I knowing that there is far MORE below than on the surface, and life is just the same, what is seen not even close to the depth of reality.

The fire glowing inside, the simmering embers that still have the power to burn if touched, wait within this soul, seeking to let loose the potential that they hold, the raging fire that can become, spreading light to places far beyond my reach. The fire within harnesses the power of passion, the emotion of heart, the PURPOSE of life, wanting nothing more than to be free to flicker in the darkness of the night of the world.

The sky knows it is not the limit. The earth knows it is not the “bottom”. The fire knows that He who fans it is omnipresent and its “power” is ONLY because of Him and the strength He gives to it.

The Keeper of the Fire is and always was and always will be. He will never sleep or drift or die. He stills the fire when it is needed and fans the flame when He knows it is time. When the winds of the darkness of the world somehow find a way to creep inside this soul and blow the flames out, He keeps hope alive, if even in one tiny glowing spark, knowing that even the smallest and faintest of sparks can STILL alight the night again.

My limits are not placed on me in this physical realm. The sky, the earth – they are nothing compared to the fire of the human soul when it is set alight. When such soul has purpose and knows without doubt its reason for living, then it flares brighter than any dark of night, encouraging the souls around it to burn WITH it.

© 2013 Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

CHANGE

Change can be scary. Change can be painful. But change can also be BEAUTIFUL.

Change gives you a chance to GROW. With growth comes REALIZATION and opportunities that might not have been otherwise. It creates a vacuum for everything WONDERFUL to manifest in your life. Once the pain has passed and the fear has faded, you will be able to see and acknowledge the beauty in the chance to start ANEW.

A butterfly is not born a butterfly, although it is always destined to BECOME one. In the same way, people are not born as they are - and not everyone makes it through life to the point where they reach the crossroads of change that will ultimately determine their destiny - but everyone has it IN them to be something more, to transform into something amazing and beautiful.

Change requires a period of “hibernation”, even as during that time you are exposed to the “elements” of the world that will try to destroy you and prevent you from becoming what you have it in you to BE. It demands SACRIFICE and dying to the “old” you, so that you can step forth a new creature, even as you are the “same”.

When your soul is ready to come forth and step “out” into the world again - at peace with itself and its creator, letting the joy of Him seep through every cell, trepidatious but trusting and believing, determined to let nothing and no one hold it back from fulfilling its purpose - the world will NOTICE. They will KNOW that something has changed and they will see that it is beautiful.

Change is a process we all go through. No matter how it looks, embrace it and BECOME.

© 2013 Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

I AM WHAT I CHOOSE TO BECOME

We all have a past. For many of us that past is something we don’t like to look back on often, causing pain when we do. However, that past has played a role in who and where you are TODAY. It has given you experiences. It has given you happiness, love, heartache, loss, fear, strength, determination, dreams, passion. Even in the most terrible and tough of times, it has blessed you in coming OUT of it.

Some of us choose to “live” in the past, allowing it to “dictate” how we act and what we become. But you are NOT what happened to you. You are NOT your circumstances. You are NOT a victim. You are a SURVIVOR of experience. And you have a CHOICE in what you become!

YOU choose what you HOLD onto from your past. YOU choose what you allow to AFFECT you. YOU choose what aspects of yourself you will NOURISH and what you will let wither. YOU choose what kind of food to FEED your soul. YOU choose what creates the FOUNDATION of your values. YOU choose what to DO on a daily basis. YOU choose whether or not to be BRAVE and face your fears. YOU choose what DREAMS to pursue, how, and when. YOU choose the people you want to STAY in your life. YOU choose your HOME. YOU choose your THOUGHTS. YOU choose where to place your HEART. YOU choose whether you will look at something positively OR negatively. YOU choose whether or not you will GROW. YOU choose whether or not to become BETTER.

It’s all YOU. YOU CHOOSE WHAT YOU BECOME! So if you don’t like who you are or what you are becoming, CHANGE it. YOU choose what you will give POWER to. TAKE OWNERSHIP OF YOUR CHOICES TODAY!

© Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

SURRENDER

Sometimes we are better off NOT knowing. Sometimes we need to STOP seeking answers that serve no purpose but to destroy us a little more each day we wonder or discover the truth. Curious creatures that we are we want to know, but we do not always NEED to.

Sometimes closure is simply walking AWAY. It is letting GO and letting God, understanding that He does not do things withOUT reason and that even in pain the bigger picture means that whatever we are forced to leave behind will serve to prepare us for what is to COME. It will make us STRONGER in spirit, heart, and mind, reinforcing the areas of our soul that need to “carry” us through until that time when we will finally see the WHY in all of this.

Sometimes we must SURRENDER our thirst for knowledge and let the answers lie. We must become comfortable with the fact that we might NEVER know the reason for such senseless action and everything that does not make sense and conflicts with everything we know to be true (or thought we did).

Sometimes we must trust that He is taking us away from something that would have caused far more destruction had we REMAINED where we were and is leading us towards the future we were always meant to be walking. That trust can be hard to find when your world has fallen apart around you, but there is something in you far greater than any devastation you can stand in, and that faith will be the anchor that keeps you able TO stand, as many times as it takes.

Sometimes SURRENDER is the best option. It is not a choice we have to make, but in making it our soul might finally find some rest, as we release our desire to be in control of everything and just hand over the steering wheel to let ourselves be DRIVEN.

© 2013 Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

STRONGER THAN YOU THINK

What you’re going through now – God didn’t give it to you because He knew you couldn’t handle it; He gave it to you because He knew you COULD. He would NEVER have given you something He knew was NOT in your capability to handle, if the strength you needed was not already inside you just waiting to be found and used.

Sometimes we are given struggles so that we might FIND our strength and realize that we had it all along. Sometimes those struggles are given to DEVELOP the strength dormant in us, the strength we never might have thought we had; or maybe the strength we were not sure we wanted to see. Sometimes our struggles only make us realize just WHAT we have within us.

What faces you might seem daunting. You might not be able to share it with another soul, or only one other, and it is tearing you apart – such are the tests of life, the trials that “make us” when we REFUSE to break. Know that whatever the circumstances, He KNOWS you ARE strong enough – you might just have to get down on your knees and cry out for it, trusting that He will “give” it.

When life delivers such a blow, crippling your soul so that you feel like darkness is your only escape route, wanting to run and hide from the world for a time or maybe forever, understand and take some comfort, hard as it might seem amidst the pain, that though it is not a way YOU would have chosen, you are “given” the life you lead BECAUSE you are strong ENOUGH to live it.                       

© 2013 Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

LIGHT AND DARKNESS

The most brilliant lights shine in the deepest darkness. The greatest illumination occurs in the complete absence of light. The brightest stars would not be seen if not for the darkness they are surrounded by.

 

In the same manner, PEOPLE cannot shine without the darkness they experience. They cannot grow without the pain suffered. They cannot know true happiness without knowing the deepest despair. They cannot fully appreciate life in all its beauty and glory without having fallen so far that they know the ugliness and depravity that balances this world.

 

The greatest people that you know have been through the most in life. You might not always know it, but those with discernment will sense it in their soul. The most beautiful people have the kindest hearts, even if they seem untouchable and distant. The kindest hearts come from having experienced the deepest heartache and never wanting another to suffer through the same or similar experience. Those experiences create in one an understanding, instill empathy for the lost, and allow one to grow into more than they are.

 

The greatest people that you know have overcome the most adversity. They have faced unspoken tragedy. They have dealt with destruction on a level they would never wish you to know personally. They are great because they have known all that and are still here. They have been broken and yet remain intact. They have been destroyed so much that they have been brought to their knees and yet they stand before you. They stand before you, because in those times, they grew in strength and courage and passion and never failed to hold tight to faith and hope and belief, even if for a time they might have felt like there was nothing left to cling to.

 

The most brilliant lights shine in the deepest darkness. The brightest stars are only so bright BECAUSE of the darkness.

 

© 2013 Rosie Chee

 

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

NEW LEASE ON LIFE

When you’ve been through hell and back, not once, but MULTIPLE times, you learn to APPRECIATE life, learn from your experiences and the chance to grow stronger, thank God for the blessings He has bestowed upon you, and approach life with a “never say never” “risk everything” attitude. After all, you have only ONE life and only ONE chance to live it, so why not make it the BEST life you could possibly have?!

When a single experience changes you in ways you could never possibly imagine, you realize that life has so much MORE out there just waiting for you to discover it, breathe it, see it, LIVE it. It WANTS you to grasp every opportunity as a chance to do something GREAT with your life, an open door to leave as big an impression on as you can in passing through.

Every second, every minute, every hour of every day, is a chance. A chance to RISK, to put yourself out there and say “Bring it on!”, “Give me all you’ve got!”, to LIVE completely and without regret, knowing that you gave it EVERYthing you had and did the BEST you could with what you had and were given.

DON’T wait for “tomorrow” to come to start risking. DARE! Be Dangerous! Take the Plunge! LIVE LIFE AND LIVE IT NOW!

© Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

I CHOOSE TO BE GRATEFUL

I choose to start truly living life again TODAY. I choose to see the blessings and beauty in what I HAVE and WHO I am surrounded by. I choose to FORGIVE myself for being human. I choose to start over the way I want to END. I choose to take CONTROL of my life and get back to being me. I choose to allow myself to become everything I was MEANT to be and He has in mind for my future. I choose to make my life and the lives of those AROUND me better today than yesterday. I choose growth and FORWARD motion and will not accept anything less than the BEST I have to give. I choose to be in CHARGE of my life and let no one else determine how I think and feel and act but ME. I CHOOSE. It is all on ME. I DECIDE.

© 2013 Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

SOMETHING WONDERFUL

Life is full of miracles and wonders. Life is full of beauty and majesty. There is ALWAYS something that can – and will – amaze and surprise you, especially when you LEAST expect it, often when you have given up on anything of the like [for you].

Live life like it IS a miracle – because it IS. Live life like something WONDERFUL is going to happen to YOU – because it IS waiting to be. Live life APPRECIATING the beauty of the souls and hearts and of those who surround [and love] you. Live life knowing what majesty created this world and give THANKS for it.

Life loves to SURPRISE you, to create DELIGHT in your soul, by AMAZING you with WONDER. It loves to bring JOY to your soul in the most UNexpected of ways, through the most UNlikely of people. It loves to RENEW the HOPE in the hearts of the broken and weary, giving them something to look FORWARD to after the cold and dark night of tragedy. It loves to RESTORE the FAITH of those who have all but lost it, giving them glimpse of the future and what could be.

Life is full of everything you could ever imagine and MORE. It might try to beat you down and bring you to your knees, but it can also be truly wonderful, and sometimes you have to look past the pain and ugliness to see the beauty and wonder of it. You have to accept that there is a BALANCE and you cannot have one withOUT the other - they will always COexist, just as there exists light and dark within the human soul. The soul holds more power and strength than you might ever know, so always believe and never forget, that something wonderful is about to happen [just when you need it the most].

© Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

BROKEN DOWN TO REBUILD UP

NO ONE is immune to tragedy. No one is immune to DESTRUCTION. No one is immune to breaking DOWN. No one is immune to coming UNdone. No one is immune to falling APART.

EVERYthing happens for a reason. Those times in your life that you think you cannot handle, surviving only to feel like you have been through the fires of hell, left with nothing but yourself, everything torn away from you, you know that you CAN. You know you are STRONG.

Left in the devastation behind, stripped bare of all you held precious, there is nothing but ashes and soot, a grey area to live in instead of the black and white, and yet there is still HOPE. For from ashes grow NEW life. From tearing down everything that once stood around you can be built something NEW. Everything broken and shattered inside you can be replaced with something BETTER and stronger.

If you did not like yourself before, or the life you lived, the people you lived with, you have a chance to CHANGE it. The circumstances might be extreme, but sometimes it takes extreme measures to facilitate change. Sometimes it takes the most terrible loss to realize what you truly HAVE and want to hold onto.

Sometimes it takes falling apart, inside and out, to give yourself the FREEDOM to become what you know you are CAPABLE of being. Sometimes those circumstances OPEN your eyes to truth of yourself and your life, forcing you to make the decision of “settling” or forging forward to become what you WANT to be and do the things you want to do.

After all, the CHOICE to change is up to us. Sometimes the circumstances must be extreme until we can truly accept and allow ourselves to be weak in order to become the strength we ARE, to start from the ground up, building the foundation that will stand TRUE in all that we are, creating a being that we can be PROUD of. 

© Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

LIKE A DIAMOND

You are a TREASURE. SEE yourself as one. Take a step OUTSIDE your own mind to see yourself through someone else’s eyes. You’d be surprised by what you find there, the way another views you, the things you might never even see in yourself. ACCEPT that you are beautiful in your own unique way to another.

The way we see ourselves is coloured by our EXPERIENCE and what we are constantly told, the affirmations that may never even have been affirmations - only condemnation that we might have accepted as truth because we didn’t know any better, and when we did, so ingrained in our minds that it can take a lifetime to remove.

CHANGE the way you think. See yourself as a being of VALUE. Remember that you are PRECIOUS - if not to yourself, then to someone else, and even if everything in your life seems to be bleak, you are always shining bright in someone else’s eyes, a BEACON OF HOPE to them, so hold onto life and open your eyes to what is TRULY going on around you and the effect that you create.

YOU are a treasure. See YOURSELF as one. See yourself for the DIAMOND that you are and use the prisms of your soul to SPREAD AND ILLUMINATE light into the lives of all you meet and touch and connect with. SHINE bright in your sphere, so that the world cannot help but NOTICE you for the gem that you are.

© Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

BRAVER, STRONGER, SMARTER

All of us have a GREAT capacity for courage and strength and intelligence. We might not think it, but we DO.

When you are going through immense change and everything in your life is topsy-turvy, upside down and back-to-front, and you keep GOING, head down, surging FORWARD through it all that is COURAGE. When your life changes so dramatically that tragedy besets you at almost every turn and you don’t know when the flames of destruction and pain will end, but you hold your head high and continue walking THROUGH the fire that is STRENGTH. When you have no idea what direction your life is headed but, coupled with what you know and common-sense, trust your instinct to lead you true that is INTELLIGENCE.

There is MORE within us than we could ever have possibly imagined. Some of us have just not yet had the life experience that causes us to draw deep within us to what we might have thought we never had. Those of us that have, whilst know the pain and suffering and heartache of such times, understand the NEED for them, their NECESSITY for personal GROWTH, and in TRULY knowing the desires hidden deep inside our SOUL.

When you see and ACCEPT those desires, you are called upon yet again to use that courage to step out AFTER your dreams, your strength to withstand any OBSTACLES that might want to hold you back, and the intelligence to know what to do when, so that you can ACHIEVE your dreams and see them made REALITY. Life is a winding path and you never know which way it can turn, so we do the BEST with what we have as we strive to become the BEST that we can possibly BE.

© Rosie Chee