MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

OBSTACLES

The world is full of things and people who want to bring you DOWN. It loves to throw chaos in our path and watch us stumble and fall. It takes delight in seeing what destruction it can cause.

Therefore, do not allow YOURSELF to become one of those things. There are too many other issues to deal with without making you a reason for falling. Instead, you should be STRENGTHENING yourself, trusting your soul, believing your instinct, seeing your heart, and questioning your mind, so that you become something that STANDS against everything else.

You have it within you to CONQUER. You have been through a lot and you will go through a lot more before your life ceases breath. Use your experiences and what you have learnt to “guide” yourself through the next obstacle and the next. Let them become a POSITIVE tool, an asset that, while you did not appreciate it back then, you are glad for now.

Life is difficult. NO one gets off lightly. But we can all determine HOW we come up against the difficulties thrown at us. We can either work our way through them, tears and sweat and blood, or we can become a PART of them and make it that much harder. Do NOT become a part of the tests life hurls at you. Be part of the SOLUTION. Know that you ARE stronger than you think if you just search that deep.

You CAN overcome. You WILL overcome. You just have to BELIEVE and see. You have to KEEP faith that even through difficulties life holds much BEAUTY to find a smile in.

© Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

TRAINING FOR YOU

Your training should be for YOU. It HAS to be. Otherwise it will not last, because you need to WANT it, the same way you have to want everything else that has a lasting presence in your life. It has to be about YOU, no one else. You sweating, crying, bleeding, because YOU want something to CHANGE in your life, READY to make the sacrifices, hurdle through the obstacles, do what it is you must, to MAKE that change, and have it PERMANENT. A permanent POSITIVE that will help you become BETTER, EVERY day for the rest of your life.

Once you start and you start for YOURSELF, no one else has the power to stop you unless you ALLOW them to, consciously or unconsciously making that decision that might take you away from the oath you have set yourself upon. Once you have made the decision that what you are doing is for YOU, if you stop, it is NOT because of someone else, but because of YOU, and you alone are responsible. So be ACCOUNTABLE to yourself, know how much you want it, always remember WHY you started and what it MEANS to you to CONTINUE, and if you stop, realize that it is YOU who has stopped.

ALWAYS have a goal to focus on, motivation to keep you focused, inspiration to increase your motivation, and those who will be honest with you along the journey. After all, not everything can be self-driven, although when you train it NEEDS to be, but others can help push you when you will not push yourself, because let’s face it, sometimes we all have those days when we wonder what we are doing and forget that WE decided to do this, only needing that small reminder that it’s all WORTH it to fight through the pain and FINISH what we started.

© Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

CHANGING YOUR THINKING

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

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

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

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

© Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

ACT OF KINDNESS

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

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

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

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

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

© 2013 Rosie Chee

2012 | Day 333: DARE TO BE REMARKABLE

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

DARE TO BE REMARKABLE

Dare to live your life in a way that people cannot help BUT NOTICE you. Dare to BE YOURSELF in a world that seeks to make clone soldiers of its people. Dare to live DANGEROUSLY OUTSIDE the comfort zone of the square box everyone thinks you should live in. Dare to give EVERYTHING ONE chance if only just to experience it. Dare to ADD VALUE to your life by doing the things you might never have dared to do before. Dare to create an OPEN HEART for what God wants to give and bring into your life. Dare to ALWAYS DREAM and never let anyone stop you from desiring what your heart wants. Dare to listen to your soul and ACT SPONTANEOUSLY when the moment arises for happiness. Dare to LIVE LIFE in such a manner that you create positive ripples of effect in the lives of all whom you meet and connect with. Dare to CHALLENGE AUTHORITY and what is if it does not rest easy with your soul. Dare to INSTIGATE CHANGE where change is opposed and what is different is feared. Dare to ENCOURAGE OTHERS to live the life they have always wanted. Dare to BE REMARKABLE!

© 2012 Rosie Chee

2012 | Day 289: WHO YOU ARE

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

WHO YOU ARE

You are YOU. Wonderful. Individual. Unique. Precious. Irreplaceable. REALIZE that.

You have life in a way like no other. You have experienced the same things as others, but come out of everything differently than anyone else. You have seen the world in a fresh perspective from the rest of it.

Your past has created you. Your present CONTINUES to build you up into who you will eventually become. Your future is not yet determined though, and you can always CHANGE the path you are on. It’s never too late to change.

You are not defined by your past. You are defined by who you ARE and who you are is YOUR decision. You can choose to let what has happened to you overwhelm you or you can choose to OVERCOME it. Use your past experiences to mould you, but do not let them determine the future.

You have overcome a lot in your life. You are blessed to still be here. Use your life as an EXAMPLE to others, the change you want to see in this world. Use what has changed you to create the POSITIVE change that only YOU can make.

You are who you are. EMBRACE it. CELEBRATE it. USE it to make this world BETTER.

© 2012 Rosie Chee