It's been raining for days, gotta appreciate a West coast winter. All this rain has allowed me to put pen to paper, getting back to my passion, writing, has brought on some new revelations.
My Pastor once said you should surround yourself with people that make you feel inferior. In essence, I believe he was saying that your association should be with those that make you question your position, challenge you to do better.
Those people whose walk line up with their talk.
I must confess that as a child I was taught you are only as good as your environment. Family members used to tell me that if they couldn't do "it" then neither could I. Such toxic suggestions. As a child I thrived to be the exact opposite of those that spoke death into my life.
I tried to do any and everything to remove myself from the dysfunction I thought surrounded me. I wanted to choice my family , choice my influences, where were the ones that would challenge me to do better?
How come they didn't live in my household?
Now, I recognize that instead of running from the dislikes of my upbringing, I should be determined to take every experience and learn from them. Every "dysfunction" in my family can and has built and continues to build character in me.
Every trial, tragedy, and triumph is what makes me better because I say so. I choose to embrace every part of my family tree no matter how twisted the roots might appear to be.
True success starts @ home, loving your relatives unconditionally allows love to spill over in every area of your life.
My sister and I have committed to a fitness boot camp. An intense 60 minute full body workout. A contract that guarantees results after following the rules of commitment.
Commitment, now there's a word that for me, would never have been associated with exercise.
Exercise had , until now, only been an after thought. After, I have the baby, After, I find a gym, After, I find a workout buddy, After, I get more income, Always an after thought.
This fitness experience is more than just me getting in shape, in fact that's the end result, It will not only train my muscles but magnify my ability and willingness to commit, strengthen my level of discipline and teach the skill of determination despite the pain. ( and whoo I'm in pain)
Learn, grow, change, evolve, transform, these are my accounts.
Everyone talks about change, as a matter of fact, it was the theme to our presidential election
Merriam Websters dictionary defines the word change....
Change: to make different in some particular : b : to make radically different : c : to give a different position, course, or direction to.....
Change has different levels. You can change your address, your occupation, your hair, your style of clothes, change your name, yet do any of these things really change you?
At some point "change" should evolve into transformation. (Transform= to change in composition or structure b : to change the outward form or appearance of c : to change in character or condition : convert
As 2010 comes to a close I have a conscious decision to "quote", change somethings "unquote".
If you have opened this link then you have been invited to travel with me on this journey to learn what effective change consists of.
In the past two years I have relocated from the Midwest to the Southeast and now currently rest on the West....talk about an adjustment. So many changes, each account of this blog is my exploration from change to transformation.
