MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

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Life never ceases to amaze. The longer you live, the more surprised you can become. It’s nice. Feeling happy and smiling for simply no reason at all. Or because of the unexpected blessings that you suddenly find right there where you once never saw them. It’s a wonderful feeling living each day as a brand new ADVENTURE, open to what may come, willing to give everything a chance, because you never know when something might become one of the BEST things in your life.

Open your eyes. See what IS there. See the POSSIBILITIES. Imagine the POTENTIAL. Not everything will become something or be an experience you might want to repeat or relive, but everything will TEACH you about life and yourself and that is worth it. It is worth it because the more you learn, the more you GROW, and the more you grow, the more AWARE you are, in tune with yourself and your place in the world, which can ultimately be anything you want it to be.

You can DO anything you want to. It’s about believing you can and being willing to take the risk and stepping out there and challenging yourself. Opening yourself up to potential failure, yes, but also a higher possibility of success, because success WILL eventuate if you stay with your dream and give it your best. The world is a playground for the dreamers, for they are the pioneers of this life, the movers, the shakers, the ones who refuse to believe that anything can be “impossible”.

Open your heart. Accept the people that come into your life, whether they are reason, season, or lifetime. You do not have to determine what they are in this instant, but know that there is ALWAYS a purpose for someone [or something] when it happens, even if we never realize it until eons later. There is something in every interaction we have, always an impact, whether we are aware of it or not, and the more intuitive souls will recognize “moments” when they are.

Life is a wondrous thing. There is ALWAYS something that can surprise even the most hardened of souls. There is always something that can soften one, make a heart smile, cause a mind to open, and dreams to begin again. Not black or white and sometimes not even shades of grey, but brilliant streaks of colour, like a kaleidoscope of intense and infinite proportions it can be once you are OPEN to what is and can be, welcoming each new day like the amazing blessing that it is.

© 2014 Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

THE SCARY CHOICES

Sometimes we find a dream in our heart that we didn’t realize was there, discovered during a period of darkness, or when someone or something completely UNexpected comes into our life and we are knocked out for the count. Sometimes those dreams can SCARE us beyond all imagining, something we never wanted or ever thought we could or would want, held in trepidation as we debate the decision whether or not to FOLLOW our heart in this matter.

Will we or won’t we? Will we step out and risk everything we know and have ever known for something OUTSIDE the scope of our experience and knowledge, so unknown that we feel helpless and lost in navigating our way through it? Will we choose to look BEYOND everything that could possibly go wrong on the journey, seeing instead the wonderful OPPORTUNITY that life is blessing us with, the dream we have denied our heart for so long?

Whether your mind acknowledges it or not, once you are AWARE of this dream, you can NEVER become UNaware, that dream becoming a PART of you, living and breathing with you, held capture in your heart, no matter how far down you may try to push it or try to deny its existence out of fear of what might happen IF you follow it. You’ll never know if you don’t give it a chance, if you don’t take the risk and put yourself out there, if you don’t DO.

But when you’re afraid and you just DO it anyway, that’s when you grow and open yourself up to new POSSIBILITIES, when your heart SINGS in the exhilarating feeling of not knowing but knowing and having FAITH that something WONDERFUL is going to happen. It’s not just persevering and desiring it with a force more powerful than you ever realized, but it’s making the choices that scare us the MOST, stepping into the decisions that you want so desperately but have never allowed yourself to consider a plausible reality, that CHANGE us the most and can be the BEST things we ever do, WORTH everything in the end.

Will YOU hear and HEED the call of you HEART and take the RISK, no matter how fearful you are, no matter how hard the path ahead might seem, to SEE where it takes you, to take the chance that it could be something that ENRICHES your life BEYOND anything else you have ever known? Will you be BRAVE and EMBRACE it, knowing that God would never have offered such an unexpected gift it He did not WANT it for you? WILL YOU?

© Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

STARTING A NEW CHAPTER...

To start a new chapter of our lives we need to have turned the page on the last one, left it BEHIND and moved ON. Whilst the events of chapters past have helped shaped us into what and where we are now - and may even have some role in what we will become and where we might go - they ARE done and should be LEFT in the past where they belong.

You canNOT move forward if you are holding ON to the past, if your mind is living in the past instead of the present, not focused on the future and where you are heading. DON’T let what happened in previous chapters of your life dictate what you do in and with your life NOW.

Sometimes it can be difficult, but don’t treat the people in your present as if they were the people from your past, because they are not. Yes, be cautious and learn from past mistakes and errors in judgement, but do not let what happened then close you off from the potential blessings that could be yours and cloud your mind and heart to what is or might be happening now, for not all circumstances are the same, and not everything plays out the way it did before.

Keep your mind and heart OPEN to what the next chapter of your life might bring. Stay close to HOPE and know what you want to see, but also keep a grasp of truth and accept that not all things are destined for us, knowing that they each have their time if they ARE meant to be.

Do NOT let the past hold you back and stop you from becoming EVERYTHING you are MEANT to be and possessing everything you are meant to have! Accept it, learn from it, and move FORWARD! Turn the page to a NEW chapter of your life and EMBRACE what is to come!

© Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

HEART ADVENTURES

Sometimes things happen that you are UNprepared for. Sometimes they hit you, like a train crashing into you and you wonder how you could have been so blind all this time. Sometimes they are more subtle, like the lighting of a butterfly upon your finger. Either way, some of the most wonderful things in life and greatest adventures you embark on in life come from places you never would have expected, but that your HEART knows is RIGHT. They begin as tiny whispers in your soul, reaching out skeletal fingers towards your heart, slowly but surely creeping their way in like the mists of time, until you do not know when you cannot remember such longings and desires NOT being there, when your entire being did not shiver with delight at the way your life is unfolding and the miracles happening almost daily before you. And when you realize how PRECIOUS the dreams captured in the confines of such a small space are, you hold ONTO them as tightly as you can, hoping and wishing for their reality and to never end, because you cannot imagine your life without them in it, so dear do you cherish them.

Your life has taken a turn in a direction you might never have thought possible, twisted down a path you might never have considered to wander, floated over an ocean you might never have crossed, all because such an “adventure” began in your heart, filtered into by your soul, where your instinct and essence dreams and breathes. EMBRACE the life coming at you, the unknown, the wild, the scary, the passionate, the love. Embrace it and LIVE, knowing that there smiles in your soul satisfaction of being exactly where you are supposed to be, grateful for having listened to your instinct and steered from danger that might cause horrific devastation upon destruction already wrought. Now your soul is giving you a chance to HEAL, and it is healing you through a life of adventure, of love that is real, of companionship before only thought to have existed in fairy-tales and dreams. Embrace it, deep down in your core, in your heart where part of you lies hiding, and open yourself up, knowing that vulnerability is NOT a weakness, but in the end will only make you STRONGER and more APPRECIATIVE of life and all He has given you.

© 2013 Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

IT WILL BE OK

A reason, a season, or a lifetime – that’s what they say people are in our lives. Sometimes a reason becomes a lifetime and what you thought was a lifetime is only a season with a reason. Even lifetimes are not TRUE lifetimes; although a “lifetime” is “as long as it lasts”. We live and die many times over throughout our life, stepping from one life into another,  leaving one behind or creating something else altogether. NO lifetime lasts forever.

Nor does ANYthing in this world truly last forever. When one thing passes it gives opportunity for something ELSE to enter your life, to become and be, for a new life to be created. If your mind is not yet ready to let go of that which your soul already knows is gone, you need to allow yourself to understand that nothing lasts forever and sometimes people MUST move in and out of our lives in order for us to move on and FORWARD with ours.

Sometimes it IS a special individual’s presence IN our life that enables us to “find” the parts of ourselves that might have been “missing”, and in discovering those aspects, be the “trigger” for our life moving to the NEXT level. Loves, though it conquers all and lasts lifetimes, is not always meant to exist as it does, and sometimes it is simply the wrong time and place, even if it “right”, for though it has been REALIZED and creeps through our soul, its lifetime has not yet come to truly “be”.

Love can last “forever”, a lifetime through lifetimes, even if it does not start when we do, because it can live BEYOND our years. Sometimes love enters our life, only to leave and return when the time is “right” and we are READY to embrace it in its complete nature. The first time it enters is the first time it changes us, the reason or season that eventually becomes a lifetime, and it changes us so that our hearts soften towards it, to make us UNDERSTAND what it “means”.

So weep not when what you thought was a lifetime creates an absence in your life for a time, for if it is TRUE, it WILL return, and when it does you will be able to enjoy EVERY aspect of it. If the lifetime you thought would always be leaves and remains only a lifetime in your HEART, allow yourself to grieve and let go, but once the mourning is over, CELEBRATE the time you had and the change it wrought, appreciating that without it you would not be who and where you are today.

© 2013 Rosie Chee

2012 | Day 330: BELIEVE

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

BELIEVE

Believe in your soul that He only wants the BEST for you. Believe in your heart that dreams DO come true. Believe in your mind that you have only just BEGUN your journey to happiness. Believe with your eyes what a GIFT has been given you.

Believe and never stop believing that GOOD things DO happen. Miracles ARE real and they are EVERY day. He only wants to BLESS you with what you deserve. To TRANSFORM your soul so that you are ready to become the person you were intended to be. The person who will change the world where you are, little by little, piece by piece, touching the lives of those around you, to make what different you CAN.

Believe in your soul that you are destined for GREATNESS. Believe in your heart that you CAN achieve anything you want. Believe in your mind that such joy as you desire is NOT out of reach. Believe with your eyes that the one standing before you is REAL.

Believe in the DREAM you find yourself walking in. Life CAN be a fairy tale is you open yourself up to the possibility. ANYthing is possible for the one who believes with everything they are, giving all they have, willing to step out one more time on the glass ledge and risk that they hold most precious. For NOT to risk is to potentially miss out on the greatest blessing that He ever intended for you to have.

Believe. ONE simple word. So much FAITH. BELIEVE and NEVER stop!              

© 2012 Rosie Chee

2012 | Day 321: STARTING A NEW CHAPTER...

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

STARTING A NEW CHAPTER...

To start a new chapter of our lives we need to have turned the page on the last one, left it BEHIND and moved ON. Whilst the events of chapters past have helped shaped us into what and where we are now - and may even have some role in what we will become and where we might go - they ARE done and should be LEFT in the past where they belong.

You canNOT move forward if you are holding ON to the past, if your mind is living in the past instead of the present, not focused on the future and where you are heading. DON’T let what happened in previous chapters of your life dictate what you do in and with your life NOW.

Sometimes it can be difficult, but don’t treat the people in your present as if they were the people from your past, because they are not. Yes, be cautious and learn from past mistakes and errors in judgement, but do not let what happened then close you off from the potential blessings that could be yours and cloud your mind and heart to what is or might be happening now, for not all circumstances are the same, and not everything plays out the way it did before.

Keep your mind and heart OPEN to what the next chapter of your life might bring. Stay close to HOPE and know what you want to see, but also keep a grasp of truth and accept that not all things are destined for us, knowing that they each have their time if they ARE meant to be.

Do NOT let the past hold you back and stop you from becoming EVERYTHING you are MEANT to be and possessing everything you are meant to have! Accept it, learn from it, and move FORWARD! Turn the page to a NEW chapter of your life and EMBRACE what is to come!

© 2012 Rosie Chee

2012 | Day 310: DREAMS EMPOWER THE SOUL

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

DREAMS EMPOWER THE SOUL

DREAMS EMPOWER THE SOUL, giving us the STRENGTH to SURVIVE even the harshest of circumstances, the most horrific of tragedies and the deepest despair, giving us HOPE for the FUTURE. Dreams empower the soul, because sometimes they are ALL we have, reminding us of what we DESIRE so DESPERATELY, giving us something to AIM for, even if conditions seem so very beyond the possible of the achievement of them at the time. Dreams empower the soul, for they make us BELIEVE, the faith in the hope in our hearts when we think of them a flame that BURNS FIERCELY in the recesses of even the darkest soul, because NO soul is without a dream, without something so precious that they cannot let go of it and would give anything to see it manifest. Dreams empower the soul, allowing us to see what we TRULY ARE in the spaces of echoes inside us, in the realms we might rarely dare to tread and search, seeking to PROTECT our HEART from that which could creep in and find them, bringing them to our consciousness, creating vulnerability we cannot bear to let anyone see or know of. Dreams empower the soul, providing us the COURAGE to be VULNERABLE to another, to be able to OPEN our HEART once it has been shattered and left scattered through time and space, to be WILLING to let someone else HELP us try to find the pieces and put us back together, to CREATE something NEW and BEAUTIFUL in its own way. Dreams empower the soul, so that we can FACE LIFE and live it WITHOUT FEAR of what may happen, EMBRACING what may come, knowing that things WILL happen and being ready for them, faith that they will only make us STRONGER and VALUE even more that we cherish, HOLDING TIGHT to those dreams, knowing that although they might only be a fantasy now, THEY ARE A FANTASY THAT WE CAN MAKE OUR REALITY.

© 2012 Rosie Chee

2012 | Day 308: LIFE UNFOLDS...

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

LIFE UNFOLDS...

Sometimes you have to stop trying to CONTROL everything and just let it HAPPEN. Let go of the fear, the hesitation, the “what if”, everything holding you back from enjoying the moment and the blessings God is giving you. Your heart appreciates the newfound freedom you have found, the joy discovered in the most unlikely of places, the surprising smile glowing in your soul, so stop questioning it and just move WITH it.

There is no rhyme or reason to many things in our lives, yet there is always a purpose to the chaos, a method to the madness, a trigger to the happiness, and if we just ACCEPT that it is happening, eventually we will understand, even if it takes a lifetime to realize. Life OPENS up when YOU do, when you allow your soul to open up to the possibilities waiting out there for you, the dreams you never dared to dream.

Everything in its time, in HIS time, always perfect, just what you need when you need it, even if you don’t KNOW that you need it. Stop running and just LET it happen, allowing yourself room to learn and grow, UNFOLDING your heart and soul the way a bud slowly opens when it wakes to the world, cautiously at first, but then fully, embracing the seasons and what may come.

© 2012 Rosie Chee



TRAINING

Monday

HIIT Run:
a. 4 min jogging
b. 32 x 20 sec sprint/10 sec easy
c. 4 min jogging

Shoulders/Hamstrings (30 sec recovery between supersets):
SuperSet A -
1. Single-Arm DB Lateral Raises 4 x 10 per side
2. Skip 4 x 100 revolutions
SuperSet B -
3. DB Hammer Raises 4 x 10
4. Skip 4 x 100 revolutions
SuperSet C -
5. TRX XY 4 x 10
6. Skip 4 x 100 revolutions
SuperSet D -
7. TRX Leg Curls 4 x 10
8. Skip 4 x 100 revolutions

Stretch 20 min

Tuesday

Arms/Abs (30 sec recovery between trisets):
TriSet A -
1. Weighted DB Crunches (on bench, knees at 90 degrees) 4 x 15
2. Pikes (on bench) 4 x 15
3. Skip 4 x 100 revolutions
TriSet B -
4. EZ-Bar Bicep Curls 4 x 10
5. Dips 4 x 5
6. Skip 4 x 100 revolutions
TriSet C -
7. Alternate Incline DB Hammer Curls 4 x 10 per side
8. Rope Tricep Push-Downs 4 x 5
9. Skip 4 x 100 revolutions
TriSet D -
10. DB Zottoman Curls 4 x 12
11. Overhead Rope Tricep Extensions 4 x 12
12. Skip 4 x 100 revolutions

Stretch 20 min

Wednesday

HIIT Run:
a. 4 min jogging
b. 32 x 20 sec sprint/10 sec easy
c. 4 min jogging

Stretch 20 min

Thursday

Session 1

Skip x 1,000 revolutions

Full-Body (30 sec recovery between quadsets):
QuadSet A -
1. Swissball Wall Crunches (feet on wall, knees at 90 degrees) 2 x 25
2. Swissball Crunches (270 degrees to 180 degrees) 2 x 15
3. Swissball Double-Leg Raises 2 x 15
4. Skip 2 x 300 revolutions
QuadSet B -
5. EZ-Bar Bicep Curls 2 x 21s
6. Rope Tricep Push-Downs 2 x 10
7. Alternate DB Hammer Bicep Curls 2 x 30
8. Skip 2 x 300 revolutions
QuadSet C -
9. Plate Lateral Raises 2 x 25
10. Plate Hammer Raises 2 x 10
11. Rear Flyes 2 x 15
12. Skip 2 x 300 revolutions
QuadSet D -
13. TRX Rows 2 x 10
14. TRX Push-Ups 2 x 10
15. TRX Leg Curls 2 x 25
16. Skip 2 x 300 revolutions

Stretch 20 min

Session 2 (courtesy of Richard Walsh)

HVT (45 sec on/15 sec rest):
4 rounds of -
a. Side Burpees
b. Heavy Rope Star Jumps (hands/rope touch at top)
c. TRX Leg Climbers
d. Pole Lifting
e. Tire Flips
f. Flutterkicks

Friday

Session 1

HIIT Run:
a. 4 min jogging
b. 8 x 40 sec sprint/20 sec easy
c. 4 min jogging
d. 6 x 40 sec sprint/20 sec easy
e. 4 min jogging

Shoulders/Arms/Abs (30 sec recovery between quadsets):
QuadSet A -
1. Rear Flyes 3 x 10
2. DB Arnold Press 3 x 10
3. Alternate DB Lateral Raises 3 x 10 per side
4. Skip 3 x 100 revolutions
QuadSet B -
5. DB Bicep Curls 3 x 10
6. DB Hammer Curls 3 x 10
7. Alternate DB Hammer Bicep Curls 3 x 10 per side
8. Skip 3 x 150 revolutions
QuadSet C -
9. Rope Crunches 3 x 15
10. Hanging Straight-Leg Raises (toes to touch bar) 3 x 10
11. Bicycle 3 x 15 per side
12. Skip 3 x 150 revolutions

Stretch 20 min

Session 2 (took someone through and did with) HIT (30 sec rest between exercises):
a. Squat Jumps 30 sec
b. Burpees (with push-up) 30 sec
c. Plank 30 sec
d. Split Squats 30 sec
e. Plank (right arm and left foot off ground) 30 sec
f. Hand walk-in and out (starting position - plank) 30 sec
g. Mountain Climbers 30 sec
h. Plank (left arm and right foot off ground) 30 sec
i. Push-Up (with side twist) 30 sec
j. Plank 30 sec

Stretch 10 min

Saturday

Mountain Run 10 km

Stretch 20 min

Sunday

Day OFF

OTHER NOTES

Sleep: Very late nights this week, sleeping for only 2-3 hours before my body wakes.

Mood: A highly emotional week, with a lot of rollercoasters, but finishing with a genuine smile.

Energy: A lot of light-headedness and dizziness at random times throughout the week, standing and seated, morning and night - not sure what is going on; could be from stress or something.

Stress: Very high, but nothing I am not USED to.

Concentration: A little less of this this week, although a reasonable amount has been accomplished despite the "distraction".

Body Composition: 8% bodyfat - maintained from last week, which was a small surprise, but VERY WELCOME. Keep it like this!

Quality of Training: Shoulders have both been quite painful, especially with the second sessions Thursday and Friday - both of which were NOT planned and very impromptu. Shoulders did NOT hurt during my mountain run this morning though - the first time they have not caused pain during a run in a very long time! HIIT has been good - feeling knees a little, but the cold doing me better. Resistance training has been consistent, more smiles than grimaces even with the pain. LEGS feeling it from the second [spur-of-the-moment] sessions on Thursday and Friday, but will be good for them LOL

Joints: Shoulders still painful.

Nutrition: Wednesday was not a great day - LOTS of chocolate and sweets that day, along with pizza and potatoes, but all very well and good (since it IS my "allowed" cheat DAY). Thursday and today had a moment, but the rest of the week good for the most part.


Supplements: Finished Erase on Tuesday.

Overall Sense of Feeling: First snowfall today - very light, but still a surprise, and a nice one, bringing a small smile of delight. Good after the rest of the week, which has taken a toll - much of the stress lifted today as I abused my body running a distance I have not done since earlier this year and spent time in company that gives my heart a smile. Life is falling apart as it falls together and there ARE nothing BUT BETTER times ahead, with so MUCH to look FORWARD to!

2012 | Day 307: THE THREADS IN YOUR LIFE

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

THE THREADS IN YOUR SOUL

Just when you finally muster the courage and WILLINGNESS to open your soul to another, the one who started as a reason but grew to become a lifetime and who you thought gone forever reappears and turns your world upside down, bringing joy and hope, but also immeasurable pain and confusion, because even though you made your peace with it and let go, how you felt never changed even as EVERYthing changed. It is NOT fair on you, nor on the one you have started to open your heart to, but no one ever said life was fair and we must play the hand we are dealt as the cards appear.

Life is a tangled web and we must simply try to live it as BEST we can, untangling the threads twining through, in and over and under our own. Every thread ADDS something to your life, whether through love or loss, colour or black and white, each giving you an experience you will never forget, even the smallest of impressions changing something in your soul. Sometimes that change is MORE than you ever realize until you are suddenly aware of it, and when you are, can become a change so noticeable to the world that its effect ripples through your thread in others’ lives.

You have a choice: The love that made your soul so happy for the first time in forever and changed you in ways you could never imagine, but then destroyed you so completely you wanted to die and never be able to feel again, almost fading from existence without hope. Or the sweet promise of the new bud blooming in your soul, offering the appreciation and care that your life has been missing since forever, making you feel and want to be alive again; the glimpse of true happiness seen once before no longer an illusion but something tangible, tugging at your heart right there in front of you.

Life is a test we are all given, choices we all have to make, and you have only just been able to make your peace with letting that first soul-soaring, heart-wrenching love go. It has taken time, but you have dared to risk opening your heart again, not wanting to let go of the dream that was hidden for so long now brought to light, even if you know that it is a seed that may never break through the surface of life. You have come so far, TOO far to go back, and you do NOT want to go back from the darkness you escaped from; only to move FORWARD with your life, stepping into the new.

Time has a way of deceiving us, thinking we have it when we do not, so we canNOT waste the time we are given when we have it. We cannot go back and expect it to be as it was because it never will be, for everything has changed, especially this soul that has been through so much, broken and battered, but stronger for it, knowing what it must do, the path it must take, the decision that will change everything from here on out. It has taken all that time, all that experience, love and loss, ecstasy and pain, but your soul HAS been OPENED and it must STAY that way, each thread a brilliant gleam or soft glow tangled with your own.

© 2012 Rosie Chee

2012 | Day 294: WHAT YOU SEEK

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

WHAT YOU SEEK

You may not be aware that you are seeking something, but you ARE - your heart is, your soul, your mind, for something MORE than the life you are living and who you are living it with. What you do not realize is that what you unconsciously seek is ALREADY out there, waiting for you to find it, seeking YOU in turn, to bring that completion to your life, fill the emptiness in your heart that you might never even have known you had until it IS filled.

What you seek you may not yet have admitted to yourself, not wanting it to be a part of you, having never felt that desire before and it scares you to know it exists in some crevice of your soul. You HAVE to acknowledge it SOMEtime, for it will never go away, digging itself in a little deeper, until one day you will NOT be able to ignore it and have to face it, coming to terms with the fact that you are only human, not the “rock island” as you have always been.

When you finally admit that you seek that other piece of your soul, you OPEN up opportunities for it to be found, for it cannot be discovered, even if it is right there in FRONT of you, if your heart is not open to its possibility. When you know what it is you are missing, what your soul seeks, you become something more, because you open your heart. When your HEART’S eyes are opened, what you see becomes different, something else altogether, and you realize that you have been living only HALF a life.

Half a life is NO life at all, even if you are “content” with it. Life is for LIVING, not for being “satisfied” or played “safe”, because you are scared of what might happen if you allow someone in or something to happen. Life is a MIRACLE, a beautiful blessing, and you deserve to be blessed, to be HAPPY. Happiness will come when you open your heart to what He has waiting for you, the gifts you might never have wanted, the unexpected surprises that suddenly become everything as you find your heart SMILING.

© 2012 Rosie Chee

2012 | Day 274: SOMETHING GOOD

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SOMETHING GOOD

The world wakes slowly, one eye at a time, minute by minute, inching into life, and then diving, taking that running leap, throwing itself off the edge of sanity and time, wanting to enjoy life and live in the moment, taking what pleasure it can, the good with the bad, understanding that both exist in the balance, but that it has the final decision that ultimately determines which effect it shall be and have on it.

Your day may not have started great. It may not be going well. You may feel like death warmed up, but there’s always something GOOD to be found if you open your eyes to SEE. There is always someone who can bring a SMILE, that smile lighting up the room to change the atmosphere. Heaven is just a THOUGHT away, hell only a feeling, and you can disappear from one into the other as easily as closing your eyes and DREAMING.

The world is a WONDROUS place, full of beauty and hope, so that even if you see and feel the ugly side of its nature, you will always know that behind it there is something to look forward to, positive energy to be found and had, faith to be grasped and held, something to make it all WORTH it.

See not the circumstances of your NOW as what will always be and know that you HAVE the power to CHANGE them into something ELSE. Something from nothing, good to bad, sadness to a smile, something or someone to make a DIFFERENCE in your life, as you can to another.

If you feel like there’s something MISSING, look first WITHIN and see the STRENGTH in YOUR soul, the PASSION you bring to life, the energy YOU exude, and realize that understanding AND accepting yourself, who you are and how you feel, what you want and are willing to do for it, the beauty and light you shine into the world, all of it can and will change WITH you as you GROW, that growth allowing you into closer community with yourself and your Creator, finding in the stillness that all you ever needed was right there all along, just waiting for you to see it and give it room to take root in your life.

OPEN your heart, FIND the GOOD in EVERY day, discover the JOY that can BECOME, and live life FULLY.

© 2012 Rosie Chee