MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

JUST BE BETTER

It’s not about being better than anyone ELSE. It’s about being a better YOU. It’s about being better than you were the DAY before, the HOUR before, the MINUTE before. It’s about striving for CONSTANT IMPROVEMENT IN YOURSELF.

Everything done should have a PURPOSE. That purpose should provide a step not only towards your goals and dreams, but in making you into the person you were MEANT to be. And the person you are meant to be is an ULTIMATE version of you; a constant journey of BECOMING BETTER.

It doesn’t matter what anyone else is doing. It doesn’t matter what anyone else looks like. It doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks YOU should do and be. What matters is that YOU are following YOUR heart and working towards YOUR dreams, and your dreams are making you BETTER.

Use the time you have NOW. Not in the future, nor living in the past. Live in the NOW and create the BEST opportunities for you to evolve into a HIGHER being, throwing all limitations ASIDE and ignoring any negativity from those who seek not to support or encourage your personal and spiritual GROWTH.

Life is a journey. No, it’s not JUST about you, but if you do not focus on you and becoming the BEST you that YOU can be, you cannot possibly give of your best and help anyone else become the best that THEY can be. Your life is an EXAMPLE to inspire and motivate OTHERS into becoming BETTER.

© Rosie Chee

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STRONGER THAN YOU THINK

What you’re going through now – God didn’t give it to you because He knew you couldn’t handle it; He gave it to you because He knew you COULD. He would NEVER have given you something He knew was NOT in your capability to handle, if the strength you needed was not already inside you just waiting to be found and used.

Sometimes we are given struggles so that we might FIND our strength and realize that we had it all along. Sometimes those struggles are given to DEVELOP the strength dormant in us, the strength we never might have thought we had; or maybe the strength we were not sure we wanted to see. Sometimes our struggles only make us realize just WHAT we have within us.

What faces you might seem daunting. You might not be able to share it with another soul, or only one other, and it is tearing you apart – such are the tests of life, the trials that “make us” when we REFUSE to break. Know that whatever the circumstances, He KNOWS you ARE strong enough – you might just have to get down on your knees and cry out for it, trusting that He will “give” it.

When life delivers such a blow, crippling your soul so that you feel like darkness is your only escape route, wanting to run and hide from the world for a time or maybe forever, understand and take some comfort, hard as it might seem amidst the pain, that though it is not a way YOU would have chosen, you are “given” the life you lead BECAUSE you are strong ENOUGH to live it.                       

© Rosie Chee

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GUARD YOUR HEART

Next to your soul, your heart is your most precious “possession”. For everything in your soul makes its way to your heart and eventually that in your heart becomes what you act upon.

I have always guarded my heart so carefully, barricaded it with stone walls upon stone walls and then more and more. But I let my heart open, those walls break a little, and when they did, I let the stone lie where it fell. Still though, I am careful what I let inside, even though sometimes something creeps in that I don’t see and affects me more than I realize until it shows.

Be ever so careful what you let into your heart, for sometimes it can destroy you and deter you from the path you are meant to be walking. That we let touch our heart becomes a small part of our soul, and if we’re not careful, can lose pieces of our soul to that which comes to “steal” our hearts.

When some of us love, we love with all we are and give everything of us. Sometimes a blessing, but also a curse, for when we love without restraint, if that love should break us it can take with it parts of us that are forever lost, and leave us “incomplete”. When you “lose” yourself and fall to shatter into immeasurable pieces, there is only one who can find all those pieces and make them resemble anything “whole” again.

Yet we cannot help sometimes that we love. Like I did not realize the ones who crept into my heart until they were there and so deep a part of me that at the time to rip them from me would be to rip away parts of myself, so deep “under the skin” were they, embedded into my soul itself. Even as “time heals all wounds”, to “remove” them from myself still caused irreparable damage, and so instils the “lesson” to watch ever more closely that which you even let NEAR, for like the wolf in sheep’s clothing some come close to only want to “steal your soul”.

Instead, every morning, seek His “face”, His wisdom, His words, His protection, asking that He guard your heart, to ensure that which is allowed inside is that which would only “cultivate” the seeds He has placed within you, give life to the dreams and desires being “birthed” anew, and nourish the precious soul that has been tested through the depths of hell to find “rest” nestled there. Make sure the souls that surround you, as you do those you “embrace”, want nothing more than to see yours fly, your heart to soar, to reach your ultimate potential in this world and see your “light” spread as far as the ripples on the ocean of life can take it.

Your heart is precious and should be treated as such. Not just by those in your life, but by YOU as well. You can let it be seen, but ask for His discernment before you allow anyone or anything in.

© 2014 Rosie Chee

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SECOND CHANCE

Your life is changing in ways you never thought it would. You are in a place you never thought you would ever be. You have found a faith that you never thought you would need or care for. YOU are changing more than you ever thought possible.

Do NOT be afraid of the change. Everything you have been through was for a REASON. Every heartache and tear wrenched from your soul, every moment of pain and frustration and confusion, every feeling of hopelessness and despair, was all for a reason. Out of the greatest pain [often] comes the greatest GROWTH. Out of the greatest pain [often] rises the GREATEST and most BEAUTIFUL of souls.

You have been through that pain. You know what went wrong, what lessons you had to learn, even if the way you had to learn them was so drastic that you felt like your soul would be torn asunder for all time. Know that from the pain will come STRENGTH greater than you ever thought you could have, regardless of you knowing that your soul already has strength of its own.

Hold ONTO the faith that you have found. It will pull you through even the darkest of times. Never be ashamed to cry out to Him, to plea from the depths of your soul for help, on your knees in the most desperate of times, for He ALWAYS listens and He always ANSWERS, even if the answer is not the one that you seek. Know that the answer He gives is what you NEED, because He knows even before you do what your SOUL needs to survive, what your heart needs to be ALIVE, what your mind needs to be ENCOURAGED.

A door in your life may have closed, but there HAS been opened a window. It might be small, seem impossible for you to see yourself fitting through it at the moment, but know and accept that NOTHING is IMpossible with God on your side. NOTHING your heart dreams or aspires is out of your reach if you desire it with EVERYthing that you are, and with such consuming passion and commitment to making it happen, you CAN.

Have FAITH and BELIEF in YOURSELF, that you are stronger than you think and have far MORE within you than you might ever have known! YOU have the POWER to CHANGE your life! You have been given a SECOND chance! Make the MOST of it and become EVERYTHING He always intended you to be!

© Rosie Chee

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WHO YOU WERE MEANT TO BE

“Success” is a word that gets flung around a lot, but do the people that use it always know what they are referring to? “Success” means something different to every individual, and just because one defines it as “x” does not mean that another will share their opinion. Sure, “success” can be what the world sees - accomplishments and awards and trophies. But that is barely a single aspect - certainly not the most important one at that - of “success”, and even if you have none of those accolades does not mean that you have not obtained “success”.

“Success” is far more than what the world SEES. It is a process - very much like the ongoing journey of life - that occurs INSIDE of a person. It is the personal battles and struggles that they fight and overcome. It is the fierceness of their desire in following their dreams, the adamant courage and determination that consumes their hearts, the unrelenting force of willpower that enables them to stand apart from the rest of the world as they strive to become the person they were meant to be. It is learning from the past and using every experience to move forwards, even if they’re not entirely sure where it is that they are heading, as long as they know that the direction is only taking them further and higher than they gave ever gone before, the journey moulding them into something better by the day.

It takes courage to walk alone - if that’s what one must do. It takes strength to face the unknown - any place you have never gone before can cause trepidation. It takes more than simply wanting it - it will take EVERYthing you have to become everything you were meant to be.

Some people will never obtain “success” and become all that they were meant to be, whether by lack of will or strength of character, or allowing others to simply hold them back and keep them stagnating. It is sad, yes, but it is also truth.

Those brave souls who dare to be themselves, do what others think impossible, unwilling to compromise who they are and the desires of their heart, will be the ones who achieve true “success”.

© Rosie Chee

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TRUE STRENGTH

Strength is not something you SEE. It is something you FEEL. Something you DISCOVER. Something that overpowers you with its presence that you can’t help BUT notice it.

Strength is what you find when you think you have NOTHING left. When you run out of options and REFUSE to give in, knowing that there is something MORE out there. Something to live FOR. Something to keep you going, because it is NOT yet the end for you.

Strength is the PASSION deep inside you. It is the WILLPOWER that drives you. It is the DETERMINATION to never ever give up no matter what. It is the TEARS that you hide, the smile that shows when you feel like you are shattering inside into a million pieces that will never be able to be put back together. It is the LOVE you give when you feel like you are empty of all emotion and have nothing left.

Strength is so much MORE than can ever be described. It is a trait of those who LIVE on, who have survived horrors and circumstances that would break the human soul. It is the foundation built with FAITH that there is more to life than what is currently happening. It is knowing that there is something BETTER coming, to be made, to be created, to be SOUGHT and FOUGHT for. It is NOT making or accepting excuses on failure to rise to the challenge and be ALL that you can be.

© Rosie Chee

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THE SPIRITUAL JOURNEY

[Him aside] only YOU know what is truly best for you. Others can tell you what you “should” feel or be and that it’ll be “ok” in the end. All very well and good, but there is NO “should” and sometimes the “end” is an endless journey that stretches on with heartache after heartache and darkness after darkness and epiphany after epiphany, constantly changing and moving, living as much as you.

What was “best” for someone else in a similar situation or having experienced such emotion is NOT always going to be best for YOU. Highly likely that it won’t even be CLOSE to what is “best” for you. Others can SHARE their experiences and offer advice, but ultimately it is simply a source of “support” and guidance, because nothing and no one can truly tell you “how” it “should” be.

Your soul might seem like a contradiction in the feelings buried deep within it and the emotion visible [to those with discernment] on the surface, but it has its own way of processing everything and it must be allowed to without “forcing” from anything or anyone. In its time, which no one can set, it will “sort” through the chaos to “find” the centre again.

There is no “right” or “wrong” way when it comes to soul evolution. Soul awakening is a painful realization and the journey does not end at the start, but merely begins, and there is only ONE way for YOUR soul and that is its OWN. Follow the whispers from INSIDE and “find” your own truth in the chambers that illuminate your essence.

© 2014 Rosie Chee

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THOSE IN YOUR LIFE

The PEOPLE in your life can be very important. If you surround yourself with negative and toxic people, you will eventually find yourself dragged down to their depths, and that is not where you want to be. If you are surrounded by people who seek only to limit your potential and are jealous to see you spread your wings and fly, you will eventually either become resentful that you are “stopped” at every turn or you will begin to become negative and toxic. If you surround yourself with people who have been through destruction and pain and can still smile and see the beauty and good in life, then you will find yourself encouraging each other and lending strength when it is needed. If you surround yourself with positive and motivating people who believe in you and support your dreams, you will find yourself enjoying an abundant life full of blessings as you reach further and strive higher with those also moving forward in life.

Who you choose to ALLOW yourself to be surrounded by can make a huge difference in your life. Are those closest to you truly the ones who know and see and accept you for who you are and will only seek to encourage you, yet not be afraid to confront you because they care if they see yourself in a place of destruction and tell you the truth even if you do not want to see it? Or are they those who claim to know who you are, even as they do not understand your truth and purpose and only seek your attention when they want it or have no one else to turn to? Are those you let close holding you accountable and challenging you so that you grow, as you are them, and do they have your best interests at heart, as you do theirs? Or are you simply a passing whim to them, a moment of pleasure or a “novelty” they think delightful until it no longer serves them?

WHO are the people in your life? Who are you SURROUNDING yourself with? Who are you allowing into your INNER circle? Are they true souls or soulless facades? Do they truly listen to you and support you, or do they only criticize and condemn and seek to tear you down? Do they know what makes you truly happy and can they tell the difference, or do they just call you “happy” when you smile?

The negative, the toxic, the limiters, the energy demons, the “stagnant”, the fake – they will all ultimately hold you BACK from tapping your true potential and seeing your dreams realized. But the positive, the supporters, the warriors, the pioneers, the real who see and know your heart – they will walk WITH you into the fulfilment of all you are meant to be and more.

As you ask yourself who you surround yourself with, ask yourself what type of person YOU are and what YOU give to others’ lives. You know who you DON’T want in YOUR life, so if you are not already, choose to be one you WOULD have and seek to make an inspiring and positive difference in the lives of all those you touch.

© 2014 Rosie Chee

 

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YOU MATTER

Everything you do, everything you say, everything you ARE – it MATTERS! YOU matter.

No one else is, has been, can be, or ever will be YOU - only YOU can be you! You MATTER.

The hand you reach out or pull away, the words of encouragement and the words you never even utter, the smile you give even if your eyes do not share it – it all makes a DIFFERENCE to someone, whether you are aware of it or not. Every action, every thought, every dream, every prayer laughed or cried – ALL of it matters. YOU matter.

A single drop of water in the ocean might seem insignificant, but that drop creates a ripple as it touches the surface – a ripple that SPREADS. That single drop may never know how far its ripple of EFFECT reaches, nor to what effect it has, but it HAS an effect – it matters. A single drop in the ocean matters – in the same you are a single drop in the ocean of life and YOU matter.

NEVER think nothing of what you do and who you are. Never UNDERestimate your value and worth. Never hold yourself to the expectations of others, because you know yours are much HIGHER. Never give in to the overwhelming of your struggles, because you know they will just create more STRENGTH. Never STOP being you, no matter what. YOU MATTER.

NEVER FORGET IT!

© 2013 Rosie Chee

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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

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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.

© 2013 Rosie Chee
 

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SECOND CHANCE

Your life is changing in ways you never thought it would. You are in a place you never thought you would ever be. You have found a faith that you never thought you would need or care for. YOU are changing more than you ever thought possible.
 
Do NOT be afraid of the change. Everything you have been through was for a REASON. Every heartache and tear wrenched from your soul, every moment of pain and frustration and confusion, every feeling of hopelessness and despair, was all for a reason. Out of the greatest pain [often] comes the greatest GROWTH. Out of the greatest pain [often] rises the GREATEST and most BEAUTIFUL of souls.
 
You have been through that pain. You know what went wrong, what lessons you had to learn, even if the way you had to learn them was so drastic that you felt like your soul would be torn asunder for all time. Know that from the pain will come STRENGTH greater than you ever thought you could have, regardless of you knowing that your soul already has strength of its own.
 
Hold ONTO the faith that you have found. It will pull you through even the darkest of times. Never be ashamed to cry out to Him, to plea from the depths of your soul for help, on your knees in the most desperate of times, for He ALWAYS listens and He always ANSWERS, even if the answer is not the one that you seek. Know that the answer He gives is what you NEED, because He knows even before you do what your SOUL needs to survive, what your heart needs to be ALIVE, what your mind needs to be ENCOURAGED.
 
A door in your life may have closed, but there HAS been opened a window. It might be small, seem impossible for you to see yourself fitting through it at the moment, but know and accept that NOTHING is IMpossible with God on your side. NOTHING your heart dreams or aspires is out of your reach if you desire it with EVERYthing that you are, and with such consuming passion and commitment to making it happen, you CAN.
 
Have FAITH and BELIEF in YOURSELF, that you are stronger than you think and have far MORE within you than you might ever have known! YOU have the POWER to CHANGE your life! You have been given a SECOND chance! Make the MOST of it and become EVERYTHING He always intended you to be!

© Rosie Chee

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BE YOURSELF

It can be hard to realize that to be truly HAPPY you must be YOU. You – as you ARE, in your ENTIRETY. No hiding aspects of yourself away, but letting the world know by seeing how BRILLIANTLY you can glow – the way you have let others see you glow and the way you unconsciously glowed before from the touching of another soul against your own.

In that time you were happy – completely and unadulteratedly HAPPY. You were FREE to be you, with those who only longed to see more of the soul you had started to let peek out at the world. Somehow, between then and now, it ran away and hid again, and now you have to STOP that and let it back OUT – you need to OPEN up your trembling heart to the winter frost to find the sun and its warmth.

NO more hiding. No more shying AWAY. You have so MUCH potential inside you. You have so many DREAMS, so many HOPES and plans for the future. Let them OUT. Give them VOICE and see that there IS support – there are those who want to see your soul bloom like it did once before, and grow beyond that to FLOURISH.

Just be YOU. Not what the world wants you to be. Not what others want you to be. Not what you think you should be. Just be what you ARE and be UNashamed of it – do not forget your beauty, your wings, your UNIQUENESS and everything about you that stands you apart from anyone and everything else. Let your soul back out and simply let yourself BE.

When you can do that, KEEP on doing it. LIVE your dreams. Let the joy of refinding the passion that had slipped away infuse back into everything you do. Let the smile in your soul sparkle from the depths and light the smile of another. Give yourself permission to FLY again and GROW ever more into the person He intended you to be. Let the HAPPINESS become a way of life again.

© 2013 Rosie Chee

 

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LIFE

Life is a gift given to all. Not everyone might “deserve” it, but everyone is given the chance to take that blessing and turn it into something great. Life is a miracle and every moment you have breath in your body is a moment to be thankful for.

Gifts are opportunities. They may present as difficulties and obstacles, but the harder the challenge, the greater the opportunity to grow and develop, to “prove” that such a gift was not wasted and the one who received it has a diamond hidden inside the rough.

Life and the gifts it bestows are not always what we want or expect. Not being given what is desired can be the “best” thing one can receive, because what they ARE given can reveal far greater meaning; and sometimes being given the unexpected leads to far more than could ever be imagined and asked for.

Gifts are not given to be set aside. They are intended to be used and He who gives them gives accordingly, knowing what it will take to bring forth the potential hidden inside each one of us. You are unique and your gifts are unique, so treasure them and see the value that He sees.

Life is a miracle. YOU are a miracle. No matter where you have been or what you have been through, it has brought you to the place you now stand. It has given you what you need to become the blessing you are meant to be, so smile as you step into another day and another chance to live “greatness”.

© 2013 Rosie Chee

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CHANGE IS

Change can be a scary thing. It can also be an exhirilating feeling. It can open up your life to amazing opportunities never offered it before. It can take you into the UNknown.

The unknown can cause a sense of FEAR. Fear of what is to come and what it will mean; of failing expectation placed on you by yourself and others; of falling too far down that you might not be able to pick yourself back up. Fear is a natural response to change, but you do not have to let it control you or the decisions you face and make.

Change is a big thing. It can mean many things to different people, but more often than not, it means walking down ANOTHER path than the one you were traveling on. It means trusting in your instinct, in your soul and heart and dreams, having faith in something greater than yourself that this new path is one that will only enrich your life in ways you cannot yet imagine.

Change means GROWTH. Without opening yourself up to it you do not give your soul a chance to grow and “evolve”, and if you always stay where you are, your life will become stagnant and stale, and then you are no longer living but merely existing, which is no life at all. Change brings new life into your own; new people who spark something in you that might never have been sparked by anyone else; new dreams to embrace and build upon; second chances to live the way you always wanted to and be the person you were always meant to be.

Change, whilst initially “scary”, is nothing but wonderful, especially when you reflect and see the path you have trodden, what has brought you to this place and the life that awaits; beautiful because He has gifted you with such opportunity to grow into the butterfly you have potential within yourself to be, and soar to heights of GREATNESS.

© 2013 Rosie Chee

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LET GO OF FEAR

For one to change, one must GROW. And for one to grow, one must let GO of that which might hold them back. And that which might hold one back is most often FEAR.

Fear of what is to come. Fear of the unknown. Fear of letting go of a “comfort zone”. Fear of being vulnerable. Fear of being hurt. Fear of pain.

Growth IS painful. Growth is often made in the most INTENSE of situations, many times not ones we might have CHOSEN, but that we NEED. Growth HAS to happen in order for our lives to move FORWARD.

And we ALWAYS want to be moving forward. Life is not living if we are at a standstill, stagnant and immobilized. Life is simply “existing” then, and life is NOT for merely existing.

Life is for LIVING. Living with passion and exuberance. Living without limits ad boundaries on our dreams and aspirations. Living as high as we can for as long as we can. Living and GROWING.

Growing into the person we were always INTENDED to be. And for that to happen, we MUST allow CHANGE. We MUST WELCOME growth. We must LET GO of any fear we have and LIVE.

© 2013 Rosie Chee

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THE ONES YOU LOVE

When you love someone, you don’t keep them in a cage. When you love someone, you give them FREEDOM. You let them OPEN their wings and give them the space they need to FLY. If they want you to soar with them, then JOIN them. But if they have to do some things alone, LET them.

For some, this is a fearful thought. They fear that the one they love will fly away and not return. If they love you, they WILL return. But you also have to create something for them to come BACK to. Together, you have to set down ROOTS in the life that you are BUILDING together. You have to give them something to WANT to come back to.

After having flown above the world, there must be something that will hold them to the “home” you have together. They must have a reason to STAY with a single being in a stationary place when they have had the freedom to be around multitudes and ever moving. You must be able to “keep up” with them and GROW with them, your love constantly EVOLVING as you both evolve, flying as you both fly, and never be something from which they might desire to flee.

© 2013 Rosie Chee

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TAKING BACK ME

It’s time. I’ve done the soul searching, the heavy meditation, the endless heartache and nights of tears. It’s time to start taking BACK who I am and who I was and who I will be. It’s time to start letting the JOY seep back into my life and the little things I do. It’s time to STOP worrying about things I may not be able to control and all that’s left unsaid. It’s time to SAY the things that have been pent up for so long and get them out before they destroy anything more. It’s time to start being ME again, the way I always was, but a BETTER version of that, in the me I was always meant to be. It’s time to let the beauty OUT and let the world see a GENUINE smile from a heart of gratitude and love. It’s time to OWN my life and be responsible for every emotion that I allow to creep into my soul. It’s time to let the “other” side of me, the one I’ve been told “lights up the room” and is a “pleasure” to be around, loose to be FREE. It’s time to start being ME again.

© 2013 Rosie Chee

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BE STRONG

The night seems longer than ever, darker than ever, your tears limitless in their source, the emotions tearing and ripping you apart seeming determined to see how little they can leave you with. Yet you know better - that you are stronger than this, have endured much more than this, too many times before, and that you found a way before, so you will find a way NOW. You will be STRONG and no one will ever know, your face a smile, your body acting as it should, living life through the “motions”.

You HAVE to be strong. You cannot let it show. You will not let them see your struggle. Your pain is yours alone, because the one that should have cared cares not. You have others relying on you and you must be strong for them. Never mind what YOU are going through. You continue to be the rock that they “need”, even when you have no rock of your own.

You stay strong on all outward appearance and you see the irony in the strength others get from YOU. You understand that even when your own world is dark you can STILL be a light in that of others. You can still provide some comfort to others and help them through THEIR tough times. You can continue to be everything that they think you are because they need you to be that, even though you may feel powerless and unsure of how to proceed in your own situation.

Your strength, your guidance, your simply “being” – you may never know how it helps another or inspires them. You do it because it’s what you do. In turn, though you may not find the peace that YOU seek, you can at least know that you are able to make a difference. You can continue being an example – you ARE an example, your entire life, though it might not always be the best one. You continue on, because if you did not, the other option is NOT an option.

© 2013 Rosie Chee

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CHALLENGES AND GROWTH

Life is a MOVING challenge. WithIN it are even MORE challenges. Some not so hard; others that test us to our limits. The HARDER the challenge and more desperate the struggle, when we are fighting for life itself and the stakes are the highest they can possibly go, pushing us to the edge of sanity, THAT is when there is the greatest potential for GROWTH. THAT is when we are forced to become BETTER, when we have no choice BUT to make a decision, that decision determining our future forthwith.

EVERY day we are challenged. Every day we are faced with decisions that will either cause us to lose momentum or propel us FORWARD. The harder the decision, the faster the fall if we turn backwards, but also the greater the success waiting for us if we are brave enough to CONTINUE on and through. The harder the challenge and more life-changing the decision we are forced to make, the greater the opportunity we have for taking charge of our destiny and FULFILLING our purpose.

Running from challenges will NOT serve you well, nor remove you from the eventual decision you WILL have to make. Running only shows a lack of courage and conviction, a stagnant soul who cannot even face its own shadow. That is NOT you! YOU MUST TURN AND FIGHT! You must ACCEPT the challenges as they come, for without them, you cannot become better, and your mission is to be ALL that you have potential to be. Always remember, the harder the challenge, the greater the STRENGTH you develop to face life. CHOOSE GROWTH.

© 2013 Rosie Chee