ReThink[ing] MYSELF

Good Morning Dudes and Dolls,

So I have been a huge hiatus. Kind of an Eat, Pray, Love type of stent. And guess what. I ate WAY too much. I have found the love of my life and I am digging deeper in my relationship with Christ to be able to live the greater life that God wants me to live. So as I was gearing up to "spring into action" and begin to write again I said hmmm. How can I charge people and ask people to rethink their lifestyles, when I just completed my own ReThinking Process. So this post just serves to show you my recommitment to you all to help you not only Rethink yourself but also Rethink different issues to weigh in on different topics and possibly help us all to Rethink everyday issues, topics and concerns. So I am beginning to REshape Rethink[ing] and I hope that you all will be along for the journey as we add to our little family. Thank you for your commitment thus far.

Our theme for this year will be "Decide that you want it more, than you are afraid of it" -Bill Cosby

Lets Go!!!

xoxo

.Session

Timing Is Everything

This Emotional Life, here we go again with the revamping of me, with the revamping of this blog. You know I planned to blog at least twice weekly. Said to myself that I would be committed that I would be disciplined that I would focus in. I just knew that I was on the right track. That my PLANS were perfect. That I had finally found my niche.  Well....

If I may be transparent. Let's say that God laughed at my plans. And so I got stuck. I battled the Lord and said hey I got this. You gave me the goods now let me handle the rest. Well needless to say. I know that I need to HIT rockbottom in order to hear God. So he shook my world up a little bit. Startled mr. Removed people and things from my Life that I began to worship and put before him.

So I had go RETHINK my plan. I had to RETHINK my purpose and I had to RETHINK would I placed as sovereign.

So now here we go again. I believe that I have bumped my head enough to realize what I need to do <--- that was more me telling God. But here I go once again. But I am sure that you will enjoy this journey with me. I challenge you to answer the questions that I ask my self. Respond send your praises and your regrets.

Join me on this Journey to Right. Be blessed.

Proverbs 16:1-4

Don't you dare let the magnitude of your fears send you back to dry land. Keep moving out deeper, Keep reaching up. 

What are you RUNNING from?

Recently I woke up with what felt like the weight of the world on my shoulders and my heart. It's was like the faith that I had along the way had suddenly become non existent. It was as if for a matter of 45 minutes, I had forgot all about this God that I have been professing to love unconditionally and trusting with all of my heart. Then I read some notes from a recent service at my church. I prayed and realized that all of my circumstances were because I had chosen to go against Gods will. And ultimately I needed to stop running from those things. I don't always like to confront things head on so I avoid them at all cost. But now it's time to get it together. 

I have made up my mind to stop running to confront my fears and fear of failures and move forward head on. 

So I ask you to ask yourself what are you running from? Finances, broken relationships, purity? Whatever your silent battle is decide to turn it around today. The recovery will not be as easy as the adventure was. But the end reward will be worthwhile. Who doesn't want peace of mind? Who doesn't want to start a new. So you go forward and you move forward in the spirit.  Pray about everything. Worry about nothing. 

Stop running. 

The DRIVE ----->

What motivates you? What drives you? What makes you just want to scream from the mountain tops with exhilaration? Have you found that thing yet? That drive? That Passion? Often times I think that we limit ourselves. Well let me speak for myself? I sometimes limit myself to what I am capable of. I stifle my own progression and excellence. But why? Sometimes is the decisions that I make and then it is the discipline. I have to learn discipline to get the results that I want. More often than not I am not seeking greatness or excellence. I am often not focused on the present space and just focused on the prior moments and moments passed. I value the opinion of those that I care about tremendously. Probably more than I should and I often doubt myself and my abilities. This here today is the RAW me telling you to listen and telling myself to wake up!!! Don’t ever let anyone tell you what you can and can’t do. This is life right? This is your one shot!!! Yea its hard but the reward is breathtaking.  People will spit in your face. People will break your heart. People will laugh at your pain. Some days will hurt you to your very core to the pits of your being. It will happen, but don’t ever FLIPPING give up. Just don’t. You can’t. Because even though there are all these people telling you “no” and “you can’t,” there is at least one person looking up to you and hoping to follow in your footsteps.

That person that I look up to is my sister!! Now she isn't my blood but this girl is DRIVEN!!!! Kellie Brown Founder/CEO/President/Artisan of Karma Kollections!! Her discipline her determination and her ability to move people with a jewelry collection with purpose is like none other. I watch her move diligently. I watch her work Purposefully. There is a glimmer in her eyes when she works, when she interacts with customers and i appreciate that! I appreciate her.

So let's move!! FLIP a resolution but how can I expect results if I am unwilling to put forth effort. I am motivated!! I am ready!!! I want you to focus on whats holding you back. Why are you not giving your all. And what is that extra push that you need to push fully and completely forward. Focus and focus some more. Its nobodies fault but your own that you are not where you want/need to be. Here goes nothing on this Journey 2 Right!!!

What Really Matters?

"No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new."  -Steve Jobs



Steve Jobs said this during a commencement speech at Stanford University. Personally I think that he had come to terms with death, as early as 2006 when this speech was given. He went on to  state: "Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart." 


With that being said i think that we all have to start living with our hearts. Live like nothing else matters and live completely without regrets. Here is a man who was facing death and he was able to live from his heart first and foremost. He said it best we all must avoid the trap of thinking we have something to lose. When you live a life in retrospect you miss out on tremendous opportunities and learning experiences. Living your life continuously saying "what if I had.." or "what if we..." , is pointless. You should be living intentionally and if you do not like something that results from what you decided to do, take it as a lesson, learn from it and continue to live from your heart. Free yourself from the binds that we oh so often put on ourselves.  
Live each day as if it is your last, not in fear of losing or not being remembered, but live as though the world is your stage and you are there to benefit those around you with your passion. Some day you will die. It's inevitable. But today you are alive.  So make it worth it. Realize what is truly important and go forth. Rethink with your heart. 

Newton's Third Law

Karma; the consequences of your life are sown into what you do or how you behave. What happens to us in my opinion is a direct reflection of the energy that we put into the world. More often than not, people believe that they have bad Karma but in reality everything that happens to us wether good or not so good is a blessing. For in that experience you learn something from it.  We are all responsible for our own causes and the energy we put into the world. But our actions and reactions are intertwined. So how do we make sure that we emit that positive energy needed to make the world go round? What do we do. First I would say that you realize that the world is bigger than you. Everything that you do and how you interact with the world is the result of a larger entity. What happens daily, how you interact with the world is the result of people and the world working together to make sure that your day goes according to your routine. Everything that you use was made for the betterment of society.  Secondly what you give is what you get. The world owes you nothing. But you, you owe the world and everything in it, all of your being. The world wether personal or on a larger scale will only be as great as you make it. You have to be able to whole heartedly deposit  happiness into the world and release positivity to be able to truly enhance it. When you put out happiness and doing loving things for others you are truly happier. Disharmony is not what we need. The over arching theme of Karma in my opinion is not just emit positive energy in hopes or expectations of receiving something back. But to put into the earth and world around us to better those that we interact with.  "Newton's third law: All forces in the universe occur in equal but oppositely directed pairs. There are no isolated forces; for every external force that acts on an object there is a force of equal magnitude but opposite direction which acts back on the object which exerted that external force."