MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

LIFE'S FLAMES

Life loves to test us. Sometimes it waits a lifetime to see what we are made of, desiring to surprise us suddenly to observe how we handle its disruption. Other times it seems intent on seeing how well we fare with what seems like setback after setback, to see if we’re truly what we say we are and to see what we can grow INTO.

Life can simmer or it can boil. It can allow your life to rest upon a single ember or it can immerse you in flames so hot you feel like you might burn up from the inside out. Either way, whether we survive the fire and how we come out reveals us to the world and sometimes to OURSELVES.

Life can create a monster or it can create a beast. The difference is that a monster knows no bounds to its fury and the havoc it wreaks based on the “injustice” it feels has been done to it, whereas a beast is a monster who realizes that every trial is a “lesson” and an experience with opportunity for great GROWTH.

Life can transform a monster into a beast. Once it quiets enough to understand and accept the challenges and struggles that face it. A monster of destruction can become a beast of growth, a far more powerful weapon because the difference it makes in the world creates an impact for the BETTER.

Life loves to bring chaos into being. Sometimes simply because it can, sitting back to watch what unfolds. Other times because there is a purpose, change to elicit the activation of the potential lying inside or the resurrection of the passion that might have almost died, so that we might become our BEST.

© Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

STAY STRONG

Wherever you are in your life, difficulty WILL happen. It is inevitable and how you RESPOND to it will determine how it affects you not just now, but in the long term. FACE your struggles and accept them for what they are, even if you do not fully understand and see them only as “tests” or “lessons” for what you are not quite sure you are yet supposed to be learning.

Life is a battlefield and we ALL come across a mine in our time. You might have stepped ON it, see it and cannot stop the movement that will result in your contact with it, or it might already be too late and you did not realize what happened until it blew up and left you destroyed. Your decisions from this point forward will determine your destiny, the path that you’re walking on, who you’re walking it with, whether you stay or go, run or hide, fight or flee. Your choices in this MOMENT will start the process that “creates” who you will become.

Stay STRONG and analyze the situation in the time that you have. See the solutions, no matter how “undoable” they may seem and EMBRACE the “challenge” that now opposes you. Use it to test your mettle, your INSTINCT, your desire to SURVIVE. From the depths of your soul will rise a will to LIVE, for it cannot accept defeat, that this is all life has for you, knowing that there is MORE out there and you were intended for GREATER purpose than this. You just have to get THROUGH now to get there.

Breathe DEEP and try to stay calm. Attempt to allow your soul to RELAX, because you need your logic and reality to act on the blink of an eye, knowing that sometimes even the ILLOGICAL and most improbable solution is the “answer” you need to “pass”. Instinct and FAITH, “letting go” of what it “appears” to be and “seeing” what it really is, TRUSTING that this challenge will only bring you out stronger AND better than before, preparing you for that to come.

STAY strong. This is but a MOMENT in a LIFETIME of “moments”. This is but ONE of many “mines” you will stumble across. This is but one decision you will have to make that could either break or create the future you are heading towards. Hold TIGHT the vision of your future, the dream, in your mind, and know that He and your soul will lead you TRUE towards it if you ALLOW it and BELIEVE it.

© Rosie Chee

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BEAUTIFUL MADNESS

No one is perfect. In fact, it is our IMPERFECTIONS that make us WHO we are, that make us BEAUTIFUL, that make us stand OUT. Besides, who wants to be perfect? If you’re perfect you never change, you never grow, and you never become better. And life is all about change, growth, and building on what is already there, layer upon layer, creating the complex and beautiful being that we are and were intended to be. Beauty is not in perfection; it is in IMperfection.

We all see the world differently. Therefore we each define the world and the way we experience it differently to everyone else. The world cannot be put into a small, square box, like some would will it, neat and clean and tidy and specifically labelled as something. Our DIFFERENCES make us unique. What some call “madness” others call “genius” and just because others have a certain perspective of you does not mean it is truth. All genius is discovered and created from what is always seen as “madness”.

Life is meant for LIVING. Dancing and laughing in the rain just because you can. Loving when all seems impossible, because the greatest happiness comes from dreaming and following our hearts. Taking the odds because you’d rather risk than play it safe. Standing OUTside the circle of others, because carving your own path is better than blending in and losing yourself.

Life is for making an IMPRESSION. On ALL whose paths you cross. And there is no greater impression left than that of one who KNOWS who they are, completely confident in it, striding through life with passion and purpose, imperfectly beautiful, the sparkle of mad genius like a halo around them, so wonderfully and unexpectedly different from the rest of the world that they are never forgotten, leaving a small part of themselves in the soul of all their lives touch.

© Rosie Chee

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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

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YOUR OWN HERO

A hero can be defined by many things. The world has many heroes - they are not always the people in the limelight, those winning the accolades for great deeds, nor the famous and notorious; but more often than not they are the ones you never see or hear of, the unsung greats who do it for nothing more than simply because they can and want to help another in their time of need or trouble.

As Christo Parkeeves said, “A hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.” The Flowers of War trailer states that, “In extraordinary times ordinary people become heroes.”

Sometimes life leaves us with no other option but to step up to the plate and be the hero that is needed, to stand up for ourselves, to right the wrongs, to see that our justice is done, to be our OWN hero.

Are you waiting for someone ELSE to “save” you? Or are you prepared to dig deep within you for the strength, the determination, the perseverance, and passion to rise up and do what you know is RIGHT? Are YOU willing to step up to the challenge, into the shoes that you’ve perhaps thought yourself unworthy of wearing?

Because let me tell you right now, you ARE worthy. If you have something in the recesses of your soul that cries every time you see an injustice, when you are on your knees and have nothing left, when you are backed into a corner and see no way out, and that something comes strongly to the fore, then you ARE worthy. You have something inside you that will not close its eyes to what is going on and you HAVE to ACT to make it better. THAT is the heart of a hero.

Look WITHIN. Don’t rely on others - rely on YOURSELF to do what needs to be done, to pull yourself out of the black hole you might find yourself in, inch by bleeding inch, step by painful step. Allow the journey to teach you, mould you into something BETTER than what you are. Find strength you never knew you had, courage you have never used, and fight back with everything you’ve got, because this is YOUR life, YOUR war, YOUR battle, YOUR fight.

© Rosie Chee

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POWERUL BEYOND BELIEF

Everyone feels the keen pain of loss, especially when it is one so very close to your heart, and whilst grief can overcome you to the point of breaking and wanting to disappear from the world, your spirit has a TREMENDOUS ABILITY to “come back” from tragedy.

Your spirit has an OVERWHELMING CAPACITY to love and forgive, so even if the one you love hurts you beyond imagining, the deep emotion you have for that person allow you to treasure the time that you had, instead of building fires of resentment and anger. The strength of your emotions for that individual could turn into something ugly, but your spirit is POWERFUL BEYOND BELIEF, and you have the WILLPOWER TO MAINTAIN the beauty that was brought into your life, the gifts that were unexpectedly received in the joy of knowing them, even if they are gone from you in time and distance and perhaps life.

Never forget the POWER hidden deep inside you, the STRENGTH that rises to the surface when needed, the safeguards of your soul, to protect and keep you, but not from the experiences in life that will mould you into a better being, a “higher” you, an ultimate version of the best you possible. Without powerful emotions, having loved and lost, we would miss out on a painful experience yes, but also on the opportunity to OPEN up our life and our heart to another, even for the briefest of times, and know the WONDER OF EVERYTHING encompassed in the HOPE that such happiness can bring to a soul.

You are what you ALLOW yourself to become, with your emotions so very powerful in shaping your thoughts and controlling your actions, so be careful what you hold onto, and if loss is something you are dealing with, remember that the pain eventually seeps away, even if it takes a lifetime, but the BLESSINGS of that love NEVER disappear from you.

Be THANKFUL for everyone in your life who has TOUCHED your soul and left a little piece of themselves embedded in your heart, for they are the gems that make your life so very SPECIAL AND IRREPLACEABLE, for no one else ever did, can, or will have YOUR spirit and the ability that YOU have to make that DIFFERENCE to OTHERS.

© Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

ONE STEP AT A TIME

It’s not always going to be easy. Especially the times when you think you are past something and have let it go, but then are suddenly thrown backwards and off kilter, realizing that you are not as “over it” as you thought. Life loves to throw us curveballs. It is cruel and unrelenting in trying to break us down, to make us crawl on our knees. Only it doesn’t want us to get back up; it wants to watch us break so much that we don’t want to get back up and fight. And it’s up to US to ensure that it sees no such satisfaction.

One day at a time. One STEP at a time. We seek strength. We push forward. We fight. We survive. Some days are easier than others. Some we wonder how we managed to get to this point. When we look back we see the path we have carved up the mountain of life, our footprints stretching behind us in and out of the waves on the endless beach of eternity. We have come so far, but we still have so far to go.

Whatever happens remember that YOU are stronger than your circumstances, You are stronger than the punches that land on you. You are stronger than those who try to bring you down. You are stronger than the storms that rage around you. You are stronger than you THINK.

Keep your head UP. Give your soul the room it needs to breathe and HEAL and grow. Surround yourself with only sources of NOURISHMENT for your soul.

You have got this. You will get through this. You can only get BETTER!

© 2013 Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

BEAUTIFUL

Beauty is not something PHYSICAL, even though it is and can be. Beauty is something in a SOUL, the smile of a heart, the whimsical wonderings of a curious consciousness. Beauty is something your HEART has to see to truly know and understand. It is something that has to be EXPERIENCED and it starts with YOU.

YOU have to recognize that you are beautiful. Not just realize it, but ACCEPT it. Your beautiful might not be anyone else’s kind of beautiful, but it is YOUR beautiful. You have to see the beauty that OTHERS see. You have to acknowledge that parts of you hold MORE than you think.

You ARE beautiful. SEE it. It might take time to accept it, but you NEED to. You cannot truly be everything that you are meant to and COULD be if you do not. For when you do, you OPEN your soul up to boundless opportunities you might never have had the courage to notice and go after before.

You have to know and understand and accept your special kind of beauty to know and understand and accept yourself. It’s not vanity to know this. It simply means looking at yourself through another’s eyes and making those eyes your OWN, seeing yourself with another heart’s perspective.

Everyone is beautiful in their own way. You see beauty in OTHERS. Start seeing it in YOURSELF.

© 2013 Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

LOSING EVERYTHING

Sometimes the thing that “wakes” us up is losing the very thing that was the most precious to us, when we find ourselves falling, with nothing left but ourselves, everything ripped from us in a cruel twist of fate.

When you lose something so very precious to you, you learn to value the gifts bestowed on you along the journey of your life. You learn not to waste a single moment in regret or what “might have been”. You learn to never let an opportunity go by when either you or someone else could be blessed abundantly. You learn to see happiness for what it truly is and how to be at peace with your own heart.

Suffering tempers even the hardest of souls. It can change the coldest people into those most capable of loving.

Those who have lost everything are those with the most compassion, the gentlest touch, the most beautiful of smiles, and the greatest strength. They are who they are because they had the courage to get up and pick up the pieces of themselves and their lives and continue living, start over, step out and risk again, and open their hearts to see the “magic” that lies in everything.

© Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

DIFFICULTY CREATES OPPORTUINTY

Sometimes all you can see is what is going on NOW. You can so OVERWHELMED by your circumstances that you do not see the “good” in the bad, the “wonder” in the “heartache, the “opportunity” in the difficulty.

Roads to the best things in life are not always CLEAR. Sometimes they are fraught with devastation and destruction. Sometimes they are hidden behind obstacles and “road works”. Sometimes they are “over the hill” and out of sight. Sometimes they are disguised as “tests” that determine our true POTENTIAL.

Any time you find yourself in a difficult situation, no matter how small or large the situation, there is an OPPORTUINTY. That opportunity is for GROWTH. It can be mental, physical, psychological, or spiritual, but all intended for one purpose: To make you BETTER.

Every difficulty IS an opportunity to see what you are made OF, to perceive if you have what it TAKES to succeed at what you want in life, to determine the STRENGTH of your desire for the dreams you harbour in your soul, to know if you are on the “right” path to BECOMING.

“Becoming” is a CONSTANT journey, a perpetual purpose that you can spend lifetimes trying to fulfill. And lifetimes it WILL take, as many as is required to create a soul worthy of the potential bestowed upon it. Opportunity knocks on the door of that potential in EVERY difficulty, to see if it will answer, or be discovered and USED.

Sometimes it takes those overwhelming circumstances to see the path ahead, your next step, and to UNDERSTAND just how blessed you truly are. USE your difficulty to make you STRONGER and BETTER than ever.

© 2013 Rosie Chee