MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY


The older I get, the less I want to regret. I want to live now: Fully, completely, wildly, without reservation, knowing I lived each day as best I could. That's living. And life is meant to be lived. 100%.


© 2015 Rosie Chee

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MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

OTHER SIDE OF FEAR

There is a “glass wall” in our lives: One side is “safe”, our “comfort zone”; the other side beckons of the “unknown” and often that which we “fear”. So sad that so most will never move from the former side of that invisible wall. But those that say “screw it” and take that step of faith to move past it will be the ones that live a life worth telling, a story with lessons learnt through experience, and a testimony that will help enhance the lives of those who hear and see it.

As a child we have no “fear”. Yet somewhere along the way so many become “conditioned” to the world’s way of thinking or have no faith, and fear enters their life. Fear of anything and everything, nothing more trivial than another. Those few who truly have “no fear” are few indeed, and if they were honest with themselves, they will know that deep down there are fears that even they cannot acknowledge to themselves. Yet, there might truly be no fear, coming from a deep seated faith in something bigger and greater than anyone can or will ever understand. And that faith is what “allows” them to move from the “comfort zone” to the “other side of fear” and let them truly live.

There is FREEDOM in “fearing” but getting out there and doing it anyway. There is an exhilaration in taking risks, a thrill that cannot be experienced by being “safe”, a real joy in letting your spirit “fly” and embracing the “moments” that come, giving “over” to the childlike innocence and curiosity to explore life and all it has to offer.

Sometimes those living on the other side of fear look at those “inside” the “safety” of the “glasshouse” and wonder how they can live thus, desiring to see them step “through” the portal into the “real” world they exist in so that they too can truly know what it is like to LIVE. There is life on one side of the glass wall, but those on the other side of that wall are ALIVE with the life that only freedom can give.

You have a choice: Stay inside your comfort zone or get OUT of it. If you’ve been on both sides, then you know the only “logical” choice. Do you want to merely survive, or do you want to experience life in all the wonder and magnificence that it SHOULD be lived in? Think about it. “Evolution” and “becoming” is all about moving from strength to strength, one height to another, touching one star and then another and another, falling and rising, loving and losing and rediscovering new life, and none of that can be found INSIDE a “comfort zone”. Life is meant to be lived OUTSIDE the boundary of “should”, so why not let yourself smash that glass wall and “understand”!

© 2014 Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

BE GOOD TO YOURSELF

Sometimes we spend so much time looking after and out for others that we forget to take care of OURSELVES. We work ourselves into the ground trying to do everything for everyone else, being strong for everyone else, making life work for everyone else, that we neglect to take care of ourselves. We allow our energy to be drained in our service to others, our strength to be used to nurture others, our minds to be consumed by thoughts of how to make things better for everyone else, but ourselves. And when that happens, you have NOTHING left for yourself. You drain yourself dry. You don’t nourish yourself, or replace what is being used, giving back to yourself so that you do not lose of yourself.

It’s fine to give, but it’s NOT fine to give and give and give until that’s all you’re doing, not taking care of yourself, not looking out for YOUR best interests, not accepting help from others because you have to be the one doing everything, until eventually you find yourself collapsing, shattered and broken, with nothing left to help yourself, empty and alone.

You have to be GOOD to YOURSELF. You have to nourish and feed yourself – whether it be taking time out every day just for YOU and no one else, meditating, filling yourself with the Spirit and refreshing your soul, speaking positive words of encouragement and empowerment over yourself and your life. You have to relax and recuperate – whether it is having a day off doing everything for everyone and focusing solely on you, so that your body and your mind stays strong and doesn’t run out of energy or spirit. You have to learn to be selfish and say “no” sometimes, because you cannot do and be everything to everyone all of the time, and you need to learn what you CAN do, what you cannot, and accept that, instead of piling all the world’s burdens on your own shoulders.

You have to be GOOD to YOURSELF. When you are good to yourself, then you can be good to OTHERS. You are better equipped to deal with others and their demands, and you will not bleed yourself dry in trying to manage those demands.

You have to be GOOD to YOURSELF to be of any use to ANYONE ELSE! So, if you are not and know you must be, start today! BE GOOD TO YOURSELF!

© Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

IMPERFECTLY BEAUTIFUL

Life is never going to be “perfect”. There are always going to be perfect MOMENTS in a world that is in destruction. There is always going to be BEAUTY in the deep dark ugliness of a world that is becoming more dangerous by the day. There is always going to be LOVE amidst the hate that seems to surround some. And it is that love that we should HOLD onto. It is the love we should focus ON. It is the love that we should see as beautiful in an imperfect world, making it “perfect” for the moments frozen in time in your mind as memories that cannot and will not ever fade away, no matter how long passes.

The world is never going to be “perfect”. No one IN it is ever going to be perfect. But there CAN be someone who is “perfect” for YOU. There IS someone who fits the other half of your soul like they were the piece of a puzzle you were in; the piece you never even knew was missing until they came along. There is someone who UNDERSTANDS your soul and loves you for who you ARE, not what you can do or give or be, or any potential to come (even though they will always PUSH you to your potential, because they only want to see you become all that you CAN be), but for who you are, deep down in the most inner sanctum of your soul that no one but they ever get to see. That IS beauty in a world that will always sit beauty alongside the beast.

Life, the world, people, AND you, will always be IMperfect. But that does not mean that it cannot be “perfect” in pieces, that there cannot be beauty in the imperfection, that it cannot be a place where HAPPINESS resides inside your soul. Perfect moments will always exist in an imperfect world. Looking for the moment creates spontaneity. Freezing the moment captures the memory. Getting lost in the moment is LIVING it. And life is meant to be lived, and lived to the FULL, as best we can, as we LOVE.

© Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

BEGIN OWNING YOUR LIFE

Your life is YOURS. So start taking OWNERSHIP of it. Start taking ACCOUNTABILITY for the “reactions” that occur. Start MAKING things happen.

Stop sitting back and “letting” the world happen to you – get out there and “happen” to the world! Show the world what you are made of. Let your dreams out to soar in the highest spaces. Let your soul out to run wild and rampant. Let your heart out and accept that it might get hurt if you allow it to be seen. Let your mind out of any cages you have kept it in.

Decide that YOU and you alone are responsible for YOUR life. YOU choose what you do. You choose what you ALLOW to happen to you. You choose WHAT you will accept and what you will not. You choose what PATH you will walk. You choose WHO you will let walk with you and who you will walk alongside. YOU choose and so you must hold YOU accountable.

Stop making “excuses” for why you might not be where you want to be – take CONTROL and set yourself in “motion” towards where you want to be. The life you want is NOT out of reach. The life you want if you want it enough is a reality waiting to happen. The life you want might be something you have to work hard towards and sacrifice for, but if you REALLY want it you will do what you have to, what you know you must. YOU must “create” the life you want because no one else will.

The day you decide that your life and what happens in it is ultimately determined by YOU – your emotions and reactions and thoughts to what happens or might happen – is the day you begin to OWN it!

© 2014 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

CHASE YOUR DREAMS

YOU HAVE DREAMS. You’ve always had dreams, some since forever and have never ever changed. Some you never had before, but were awakened within by the touch of another soul against your own, realized with a start, but then acknowledged and accepted and now held most precious of all.

The dreams you always had – these are what you have spent a lifetime working towards, so hold onto them, for they were not placed on your soul without purpose. CHASE THEM. Do one thing every day that will take you ONE STEP CLOSER to their achievement.

The dreams that were startled from slumber – these are the dreams that have sustained you in recent times, when you discovered that smile in your soul again. CHASE THEM. FIGHT FOR THEM with everything you have and DO NOT EVER give up on them.

You want your life to “close” without regrets. You don’t want to wonder “what if?” So chase your dreams - ALL of them. There is ALWAYS hope and if you still believe in your dreams, KEEP THEM ALIVE. LIVE your life TOWARDS your dreams until your life IS your dream.

© 2013 Rosie Chee

2013 | Day 87: NOURISH YOUR SOUL

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

NOURISH YOUR SOUL

Your SOUL is the most PRECIOUS part of you. It is the CORE of you. It is your HEART, your DREAMS, your LOVE, your LIFE. It is the ESSENCE of what makes you YOU.

Too often we allow our soul to become dusty or dirty. We bear with a situation or get burdened down with weight that creates such heaviness in our soul that sometimes we feel like we just want to close our eyes and sleep forever. Sometimes the pen we write our life with drips black ink that falls on our soul and creates a dark stain where once light shone through.

A life is NOT a life when our soul becomes too damaged. It is only HALF a life when our soul becomes so tired that it wilts instead of grows. It has a negative effect on not only us but those AROUND us, and that is NOT what we want to ensure.

If your soul does not get NOURISHED, like a flower that needs the sun, it wilts and eventually dies. You canNOT let that happen. So even if it hurts like hell, renders your soul in pieces for a time, sometimes we must REMOVE any aspects from our lives that would cover the light of our soul and prevent it from reaching for the sun.

Life is too SHORT to allow yourself to live it merely SURVIVING. It’s time to take a stand and “spring clean” your soul, everything that resides there, hidden or not, and determine whether its presence in your life has a positive or negative cause and effect. If it is NOT positive, allow yourself to let it GO. Allow yourself to begin to LIVE again.

© 2013 Rosie Chee