MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

BUILDING THE NEW

Change happens to all of us at some time or another. No one is immune from it. No one can outrun it. It affects each of us, in many different ways. One person’s change may not be like your own. That doesn’t matter. What matters is that there IS change.

So many of us spend our energies on the OLD, what we are leaving behind, “living in the past”. What is not realized is that when we do that we give what is past the POWER and “weaken” ourselves for the future. If you spend so long looking back, you do not give yourself to live in the NOW.

The best way to “deal” with change is to look FORWARD. Let the past go and step INTO the future. Focus all your time and effort on building the dream that is now before you, the future you hold in your mind, the one that might have seemed like a dream until now.

Focus on the NEW. That is the only real way you are going to have any “control”, the only true way for you to be able to lead the life you are meant to. The new is your POTENTIAL. REALIZE it and “throw away” any misconceptions you might have had about starting over.

Now is the time. Now is YOUR time. It might seem like there is “nothing” there, but there is EVERYTHING. You just have to OPEN your eyes to see it. See it and take a hold of it. Dream. Plan. Act. There is no time like the PRESENT to set in motion the events that will determine where you go from here.

© 2014 Rosie Chee

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I, NOT EVENTS

Some say that being happy is a state of mind, and to some extent, I believe that it is true. However, sometimes we cannot help the feelings running rampant in us because of an event or person, and we can find ourselves experiencing emotions for seemingly no reason at all. In those times though, we DO have the power, once we RECOGNIZE what has transpired, to CHANGE our mindset.

We live in the PRESENT. Sometimes it is NOT what we want it to be, but it CAN be what we WILL it. The mind is a POWERFUL tool, the most powerful WEAPON we have at our disposal when it comes to eliminating the NEGATIVE from our lives. If something affects you so dramatically that you lose all hope and will to live, think of something ELSE – what brings your heart a SMILE, relights the lamp of FAITH in your soul, and REMEMBER that life is GOOD, if only you OPEN your being to see the blessings you have.

I, not the events going on or around me, have the power to determine my state of mind and the HAPPINESS my soul delights in, the beauty that can be CREATED. The power to be happy lies withIN us – in your mind and heart and soul. We DECIDE what we will be – in our attitude when we wake, in our thoughts when something unexpected happens, in our feelings when we are taken unawares by circumstances not planned for.

The past is GONE – use it only to LEARN from. The future has not YET arrived – look FORWARD to it with ANTICIPATION. The present is what we have NOW – make the MOST of every moment to create the most amazing fairy tale imaginable, because dreams DO come true and miracles are EVERY day, and YOU are one of them, a BLESSING born on earth with the POTENTIAL for heaven.

© Rosie Chee

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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

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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

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ONE STEP FORWARD

Each day is a NEW day. A new day to take another CHANCE. A new day to take ANOTHER step. Another step FORWARD in the direction of your dreams. Another step forward, no matter how small. For even the smallest of steps is PROGRESS towards the fulfilment of the ultimate achievement. The ultimate achievement of the ULTIMATE dream. Whatever that may be. For it is different to each and every individual. But no matter what, I canNOT be stopped. I cannot be stopped from TAKING that step. I cannot be stopped from reaching that one bit FURTHER. I cannot be stopped from STRIVING for “just one more”. I cannot be stopped from doing my BEST, even if my “best” on any given day is not as good as it has been in the past or will be in the future. I will have given my best, my all on that day, and that is what MATTERS. What matters is moving FORWARD. What matters is keeping the dream ALIVE. Keeping the dream alive in my HEART and the hearts of those I touch. For when I touch others, I make a DIFFERENCE. And when you make a difference, especially in a dream, you can CHANGE the world. ONE step at a time.

© Rosie Chee

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THE ULTIMATE

Whatever is happening right now is going to happen with or without your permission. The hardest part is being “awake and aware” as it happens, especially when you would love nothing more than to fall asleep and never wake up. As you walk through the hours your mind wants to disappear from the world, float away with the clouds to another part of the world or rise to the stars in the endless blackness of space, to be “free” from the reality of moving footprints being kicked through the sands of time by a hurricane wind determined to rush them to the sea of undoing.

Staying calm in the midst of the hurricane, shrouding your eyes so no one sees the real emotion in the depths, looking to seek solace from the one who should know you the best but remains naïve no matter how loud your soul screams, is one way to keep going. One way to try and make sense of the “breaking”, to forgive yourself for being human and having moments of weakness. One way to stay another day in this world when the closing your eyes and walking down the middle of the highway is an impulse that calls to your bruised mind, easier to envision when you have spent time before sitting there for solitude.

Somehow you must let go of whatever is causing distress in your soul and unease in your mind, no matter how hard; remind yourself that it is not worth “taking” from your life any more than it has, if your heart not precious enough to be cherished, to kill yourself slowly over the one you find crept inside. Close your eyes and refind your “centre”; gather “the world” around you as you seek within and without the whispers of dreams, murmurings of wonders that the future can hold if you let go of the rock pulling you down to the depths of the ocean you find yourself drowning in.

Listen to the words that say “do what’s best for you”, the loudest voice of them all that of the one who walks beside you but cannot hear you; give yourself permission to do as you’re “told” and let it happen without feeling regret or remorse for deciding to look after you and not those who seek only to use you, even as their lips speak beautiful words that are nothing more than mere words, for words twisted to fit actions and not the reverse as professed. You need to let your mind come to terms with the actions, peace with the story unfolding, and let yourself “be”.

© 2014 Rosie Chee

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LOOKING BACK

Why look back and regret what has been? For without it you would not be where you are NOW. You would not have grown the way you have to become the person you are today. You would not have been moulded in such a fashion that you would be placed as you are with the desires that you have and the emotions that you feel if NOT for what you have experienced.

Instead of regret, look at it with eyes of AWAKENING. See the journey for what it has been; every experience for its role in making you who you ARE. Every individual who has crossed your path has been for a reason, no matter how small, and some have been SIGNIFICANT players in our personal growth.

Life is a journey of LESSONS, and as we move through it we constantly EVOLVE, shifting with the changes, whether desired or not, creating the person that we will BECOME. Who we become is ultimately up to US and our power of CHOICE, for we choose what we TAKE from our past, what we hold onto and what we let go, what memories we cherish and those we bury deep down inside, the emotions we  carry into tomorrow.

Choose to see the past in POSITIVE light, for what it has TAUGHT you, the OPPORTUNITIES it has given you, the people it has BLESSED you with, even if that past is one of pain and suffering and loss, for in the midst of that endless heartache there is a light, a HOPE that kept you going, a faith that stayed you to this world. Something inside you is GREATER than your circumstances or what happens to you and in the end YOU are responsible for what you DO.

You DECIDE your future. YOU CREATE your destiny. It’s all on YOU. OPEN your eyes, mind, heart, and soul, to see the BIGGER picture and move FORWARD into the future.

© Rosie Chee

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7 RULES OF LIFE

Your past is your PAST. Living in the past does no one any good. Lest of all YOU. You have to ACCEPT that what happened happened and LEARN from it. Let it GO. There is a reason it is now in the past and is no longer your life. There is a reason you are not where you WERE. Let it go and make PEACE with it so that you can move FORWARD.

Others will think many things about you. Some right, but most wrong. What others think is based on their impressions and what they THINK they know, for few will know the true soul of you, only those rare precious allowed inside to see the unpolished diamond that you are. What the world thinks does NOT matter. It is what YOU know you are that does.

Not everyone heals the same. No experience is the same and no one deals with similar experiences in the same manner. We are all human, but although we are “the same” we are NOTHING alike. The only thing “the same” is TIME, and even that takes on different meaning for hurting or grieving souls. Sometimes all we can do is allow time what it needs to try and heal the wounds in our soul.

Your life is YOUR life. It is YOUR journey. You have no right to compare your life to anyone else and vice versa. You have no right to judge anyone else and vice versa. You may experience similar things to others, but your experience is NOT their experience. Learn to look PAST what something LOOKS like to what it really IS and then you will begin to understand others and their worlds a little more.

Thinking can be a curse. OVERthinking can cause a mind to become stressed and create such a frenzy that becomes sleepless nights and time lost worrying over something that might not even be. We all have questions. Sometimes we need to learn to let those questions GO, for the answers we do not “need”, and should we know them, cause far more damage than not knowing them.

So many expect that someone else or something is what is needed to make them happy. They do not realize that happiness is not something that can be gained from an EXTERNAL source. Happiness must begin WITHIN you, deep down in the recesses of your soul and be allowed to spring forth, spreading light. Happiness comes from a soul at peace with the world and itself.

No matter what happens or how things appear, whether your day starts rough or not and you have to struggle or can flit easily through, sometimes a SMILE can change everything. Sometimes it is YOUR smile. And sometimes it is the smile of another that sparks your own. It might take effort, feel like you might crack if you try, but in the end, a GENUINE smile is beautiful and can change your entire day.

Smile. Live. Laugh. Love. TODAY.

© 2014 Rosie Chee

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HERE NOW WITH THE POWER

You are NOT the person you were yesterday. You are not YET the person you will be tomorrow. You are here NOW, today, part of the old, to become the new, and have the power to CHOOSE what you will take with you from the past into your future.

You are HUMAN. You’ve made mistakes. You’ve got regrets. Welcome to life. The beauty of it is that you are not defined by your mistakes or regrets. You can move past those and embrace the promises and opportunities waiting for you to step INTO.

TODAY is up to you. Tomorrow today will become part of your past. It will be one step closer or one step further from where you want to be and the person you were meant to be. The choices you make, the memories you hold onto in your heart, the lessons you bring with you from the past, the experiences you allow to “shape” you, WILL mould you for tomorrow. Therefore, be wise in what you will and won’t allow, the battles you choose to fight and leave alone, the people you surround your heart and mind with, for it will all play part in the future.

You are what you ALLOW into your soul. You develop BECAUSE of your mistakes and regrets, the consequences that follow, the struggles that you battle. You want the darkness to ILLUMINATE the light, so that you come out BETTER than ever.

Your soul is the most PRECIOUS “thing” you have. It is your own and no one can make it into something YOU do not give permission for. Determine today WHO you want to be and filter in or out anything that has no role or purpose in that vision.

© Rosie Chee

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PAST PRESENT FUTURE

The past has GONE. LEARN from it. Do NOT dwell on it. Look back on it only to TAKE from it lessons that have moulded you into who you are TODAY.

The present is HERE. It is a GIFT. It is a chance to live IN the moment. It is your “second chance”, a time to get it RIGHT. It is your opportunity to create the life you WANT to live.

The future is COMING. It has YET to be determined. It will become what you start NOW. It is your MOTIVATION to “becoming”. It is your VISION of reality, the one you see in your soul.

You canNOT go back and CHANGE the past. You cannot change the moments ALREADY gone in the present. But…you CAN change what will BE. You can turn your heart to those dreams and desires and set your mind and actions on the path that will LEAD you to their manifestation.

You CAN change the way your life is going. You CAN change the future you are determining NOW. You CAN become and be all that you want, all that you have the gift and potential for. You CAN.

It’s YOUR choice WHAT lessons you keep in your soul. It is YOUR choice what blessings you SEIZE and hold onto and never want to let go of. It is YOUR choice what DIRECTION you walk in.

Know that in the end everything comes TOGETHER to create what you have been BUILDING. Your past taught what you do and do NOT want, gave you the tools you need to get through whatever life throws in your path on your way to reach the stars. Your present is STILL giving you gifts, the people to walk beside you, the love that burns brighter with you, the drive to continue on, even as your past falls away. The future you are reaching out FOR, reminding yourself why you do what you’re doing, justifying the actions that lift you towards the stars you seek.

Know your SOUL. Know your DREAMS. Now CREATE them!

© Rosie Chee

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PAST PRESENT FUTURE

The past has GONE. LEARN from it. Do NOT dwell on it. Look back on it only to TAKE from it lessons that have moulded you into who you are TODAY.

The present is HERE. It is a GIFT. It is a chance to live IN the moment. It is your “second chance”, a time to get it RIGHT. It is your opportunity to create the life you WANT to live.

The future is COMING. It has YET to be determined. It will become what you start NOW. It is your MOTIVATION to “becoming”. It is your VISION of reality, the one you see in your soul.

You canNOT go back and CHANGE the past. You cannot change the moments ALREADY gone in the present. But…you CAN change what will BE. You can turn your heart to those dreams and desires and set your mind and actions on the path that will LEAD you to their manifestation.

You CAN change the way your life is going. You CAN change the future you are determining NOW. You CAN become and be all that you want, all that you have the gift and potential for. You CAN.

It’s YOUR choice WHAT lessons you keep in your soul. It is YOUR choice what blessings you SEIZE and hold onto and never want to let go of. It is YOUR choice what DIRECTION you walk in.

Know that in the end everything comes TOGETHER to create what you have been BUILDING. Your past taught what you do and do NOT want, gave you the tools you need to get through whatever life throws in your path on your way to reach the stars. Your present is STILL giving you gifts, the people to walk beside you, the love that burns brighter with you, the drive to continue on, even as your past falls away. The future you are reaching out FOR, reminding yourself why you do what you’re doing, justifying the actions that lift you towards the stars you seek.

Know your SOUL. Know your DREAMS. Now CREATE them!

© Rosie Chee

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PATH TO "BECOMING"

Everything that I have been through up to this point is my PAST. The past is GONE and yes, we are supposed to let it GO. BUT…That does NOT mean that we ever forget it, for it has played an ESSENTIAL role in creating the person we are TODAY. Every experience, every tear, every smile, every heartache, every joy, every person who has entered and left, every sunset and dawn, everything has contributed to our personal and spiritual growth and development. Everything has advanced our MATURITY as an individual and in LIFE. EVERYTHING. There is NOTHING that is insignificant, even though some events stand out as milestones on the path we have traversed.

My past has taught me. It has given and it has taken from me. It has forced me to bend and break and yield. It has caused me to rise and fight and determined strength. It has been a path through plains of drought and fields of plenty, up mountains of struggle and down waterfalls of ease, and through it all, I have been moulded.

My past may have helped “create” me, but it does not DEFINE me. I am NOT my past. I am who I CHOOSE to be. I am what I have chosen to TAKE from my past, what I have ALLOWED to creep inside my soul and reside there, pulling my heart and guiding my mind in its formation of life and purpose.

I can look back on my past and see the steps, the journey, the experiences that have been the biggest “turning points” in my life. I can recognize the PEOPLE who have had the most impact on my soul and created the most development in my being. I can understand that from my SOUL stems my feelings about life, starting unconsciously, until it manifests either in heart or mind, through emotion or vision. I can ACCEPT that EVERYTHING has been a part of my path to AWARENESS, my journey of growth and development.

Everything current and future will eventually too become part of my past, part of my journey, my STORY. Everything that has happened, is happening, or will happen, is IMPORTANT. But not as important as SEEING it as it happens and understanding that not all things in life will shape us in the way we desire, but instead in the way that we NEED, in order for us to become ALL we CAN be.

© Rosie Chee

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HERE NOW WITH THE POWER

You are NOT the person you were yesterday. You are not YET the person you will be tomorrow. You are here NOW, today, part of the old, to become the new, and have the power to CHOOSE what you will take with you from the past into your future.

You are HUMAN. You’ve made mistakes. You’ve got regrets. Welcome to life. The beauty of it is that you are not defined by your mistakes or regrets. You can move past those and embrace the promises and opportunities waiting for you to step INTO.

TODAY is up to you. Tomorrow today will become part of your past. It will be one step closer or one step further from where you want to be and the person you were meant to be. The choices you make, the memories you hold onto in your heart, the lessons you bring with you from the past, the experiences you allow to “shape” you, WILL mould you for tomorrow. Therefore, be wise in what you will and won’t allow, the battles you choose to fight and leave alone, the people you surround your heart and mind with, for it will all play part in the future.

You are what you ALLOW into your soul. You develop BECAUSE of your mistakes and regrets, the consequences that follow, the struggles that you battle. You want the darkness to ILLUMINATE the light, so that you come out BETTER than ever.

Your soul is the most PRECIOUS “thing” you have. It is your own and no one can make it into something YOU do not give permission for. Determine today WHO you want to be and filter in or out anything that has no role or purpose in that vision.

© Rosie Chee

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BE A VOICE

There are many voices in the world, but for very voice there is an echo. There are followers, people who simply repeat the words of someone else because they have nothing original of their own to say. DON’T be one of those people. Be one of the VOICES. Stand up for what you believe in. Stand alone if you have to against the crowd of the “norm”. Stand by your word and do not let the naysayers and disbelievers sway you from your conviction.

Being a voice can often be a lonely path. You are the one CREATING the path. You are the one braving the first steps into the unknown. You are the one risking your life going over the edge of the cliff first. You are the one who is assaulted first. ACCEPT it. EMBRACE it. Even though it might be daunting, there is SATISFACTION in walking in a different direction than the crowd. CHANGE is created when an individual breaks away from what is known and sets off in another pursuit.

The greatest pioneers of this world were once voices that spoke out against what was. They were voices that talked of dreams and visions and the “impossible”. They dared believe in something other than what they were told to believe in. They traversed UNexplored paths and discovered amazing destinations. They “recreated” the world and changed lives in ways that could not be imagined in their time, but that we could not imagine being withOUT in the now.

Do not be afraid to let the world hear YOUR voice. Do not be afraid to dance to your OWN song. Do not be afraid to walk AWAY from the crowd and find your own path. Do not be afraid to be an INDIVIDUAL. You never know the DIFFERENCE you might make, the ripples of effect of change that your words and actions could bring. LISTEN to the inner voice in your soul and let it OUT into the world, so that it hears too. BE the voice that shouts in the mountains, not the echo reverberating back at you. BE the change!

© Rosie Chee

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THE HARDEST THING

The things that are going to make the MOST change in your life are the things that are going to be the HARDEST to do. They’re also going to require the most RISK and cause the most HEARTACHE. They will fill your heart with happiness, whilst at the same time dripping tears down your soul. It might be hard to LET GO, but it is HARDER to hold onto something that is not meant to be. Life is meant for LIVING, so even if it means saying GOOD-BYE to something you love more than life itself, to HEAL your soul sometimes you MUST.

If you have to, cry yourself to sleep at night and put on a SMILE for everyone in the morning, so that they don’t know any different, and go about your life in a way that MAKES a DIFFERENCE in others’ lives. It hurts when the one you love the most loves you back, but is too afraid to take the risk you would give your life for in a heartbeat, and sometimes the only way to hide that pain is to do your best to help ease the pain of OTHERS.

It may not make any SENSE, but in the end the pieces will all come together for you to see the BIGGER picture, and everything will be CLEARER than ever. You might NOT want to do it, but you might HAVE to, in order to prevent regret from letting the pain of it all stop you from living as you were MEANT to, depriving your LIGHT and INFLUENCE from the world. Do not let your hurts prevent you from helping heal the hurts of others.

Do not let your pain cloud your heart and shut all POSSIBILITY out. Do not think that it is over, because there is so much MORE out there for you, so much BEAUTY, so many BLESSINGS, so much more than you could ever have IMAGINED, all just WAITING for you to open your arms and EMBRACE it, ACCEPT it, and just let it HAPPEN.

© Rosie Chee

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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

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PATH TO "BECOMING"

Everything that I have been through up to this point is my PAST. The past is GONE and yes, we are supposed to let it GO. BUT…That does NOT mean that we ever forget it, for it has played an ESSENTIAL role in creating the person we are TODAY. Every experience, every tear, every smile, every heartache, every joy, every person who has entered and left, every sunset and dawn, everything has contributed to our personal and spiritual growth and development. Everything has advanced our MATURITY as an individual and in LIFE. EVERYTHING. There is NOTHING that is insignificant, even though some events stand out as milestones on the path we have traversed.

My past has taught me. It has given and it has taken from me. It has forced me to bend and break and yield. It has caused me to rise and fight and determined strength. It has been a path through plains of drought and fields of plenty, up mountains of struggle and down waterfalls of ease, and through it all, I have been moulded.

My past may have helped “create” me, but it does not DEFINE me. I am NOT my past. I am who I CHOOSE to be. I am what I have chosen to TAKE from my past, what I have ALLOWED to creep inside my soul and reside there, pulling my heart and guiding my mind in its formation of life and purpose.

I can look back on my past and see the steps, the journey, the experiences that have been the biggest “turning points” in my life. I can recognize the PEOPLE who have had the most impact on my soul and created the most development in my being. I can understand that from my SOUL stems my feelings about life, starting unconsciously, until it manifests either in heart or mind, through emotion or vision. I can ACCEPT that EVERYTHING has been a part of my path to AWARENESS, my journey of growth and development.

Everything current and future will eventually too become part of my past, part of my journey, my STORY. Everything that has happened, is happening, or will happen, is IMPORTANT. But not as important as SEEING it as it happens and understanding that not all things in life will shape us in the way we desire, but instead in the way that we NEED, in order for us to become ALL we CAN be.

© Rosie Chee

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THE REST OF YOUR LIFE

TODAY marks the FIRST day of the REST of your life. What are you going to DO with it?

What happened yesterday has PASSED. Today is a world of OPPORTUNITIES waiting to be stepped INTO.

Yesterday might have hurt. It might have caused pain beyond belief, but that pain does NOT have to linger. It does not need to dwell on your heart and CONTINUE into today. Choose to let GO of that pain. Give it up to God and allow Him to HEAL the wounds in your soul. Let Him fix the broken parts of you, so that you can look at the world with eyes of WISDOM and know that even though there is pain in life, it is BEAUTIFUL.

No matter what state we are when we come before Him, He CAN fix it. He can make us WHOLE. He can COMPLETE what was missing, what was damaged, what we thought impossible to repair in a lifetime. He works MIRACLES in our favour, because He wants us to LIVE.

To live we must be able to see the beauty in the dawn, the hope in the light of the sunbeams streaming across the vast expanse of sky that crosses this world, and know that the dawn is another CHANCE. Another chance to RISK, to love and let those we love KNOW how much they mean to us, to start OVER and begin anew if we have to. We might have been broken in the past, but we do not have to carry that into the FUTURE. We do not have to live it TODAY.

Today is a NEW day. It is the FIRST day of the REST of your LIFE. Make the MOST of it.

© Rosie Chee

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TODAY

Last year I wrote on dreams – the ones in our heart and soul that give us something to “live for” and then the ones that we LIVED. It has been a long year and I have watched my dreams [sometimes] be almost the only threads holding me here, some given only to be cruelly snatched away, some change with time, and some stay unwavering, as others that had started to peek out returned to slumber.

Dreams can be so much, yes, but they can also take away as well, and we have to be careful what dreams we allow to dwell in our hearts and rest on our souls, for in the end those dreams are the ones that “become” us, as we merge everything we are into them. Dreams can destroy us or they can create us, forge a demon or angel.

Life itself is indeed a “dream”, but in a dream we can only act in the moment. Today that moment is now – it is called “today”. Yesterday is an opportunity gone and if not taken, might be lost forever, and tomorrow is an opportunity not yet come and might not come to pass, so you have to make the most of TODAY and the opportunity presented TODAY.

You can seek solace in memories or you can build castles on future aspirations. Better yet, you can give yourself into the action of creating and living a dream - YOUR dream, NOW, TODAY, in the present moment, allowing your soul to be open to the possibilities waiting, your heart [cautiously] open to those knocking, your mind open to something that might have been considered unentertainable in the past.

Time changes our souls, and when our souls change, so do our hearts and minds. A year is such a short period and this last one has gone by so fast that I still remember this day last year like it was yesterday, even as it has also been a lifetime that has aged my soul far more than the simple span of a year, to the point of where I wonder if I will recognize myself in another year.

But, whatever comes, whatever happens, who and what I have to face to fight for my right and worth in this world, I know that the decisions I make TODAY will play their part in determining tomorrow, and that tomorrow is uncertain, so while what might be might be, I will be grateful for the blessings I have TODAY, acknowledging and accepting the love and life, as I keep my faith and believe for my future.

© 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