One Word is Making Your Life Miserable – Pride

If you’re one of those people going around giving life a bad wrap, like “Life is a Bitch,” why don’t you go ahead and tell the truth about it? That perspective is not about life, it’s about you!

No, no, no…I am not calling you a bitch. I wouldn’t do that! (Well, I might but that would be a different post.) But if you have bought into the “if it ain’t one thing it’s another”, “I can’t catch a break”, “Every time I take one step forward I’m knocked two steps back” or “Life is a Bitch” theories , I beg to differ!

Life is a wonderful journey filled with unexpected gems that titillate the senses, pique curiosity and presents endless opportunities!

But P-R-I-D-E…that part of you that blocks you from feeling fully, accepting responsibility, being accountable and growing bountifully…Pride is a Bitch!

Here’s how you begin to change that:

1. Allow yourself to feel e-v-e-r-y thing. The emotions you’re most afraid of feeling are the ones you need to feel the most.
2. Be willing to take the ride that accepting responsibilities will send you on. When you own your flaws, wrongs, and dare to embark on the journey of making your NEXT Decision BETTER the entire world seeks to align with you and life begins to deliver wonderful things.
3. Do what is expected of you – honor those in your space and respect authority. When you do, you’ll find that the world is a much kinder place. You really do, get what you give.
4. Remain teachable. If you knew it all, your life wouldn’t be a bitch right now…know what I’m saying? Nobody, ever learns it all, neither should we. Life is adventurous because there is so much to learn and do.

Here’s a reality: life is as kind to you as you are to it! Regardless of what shows up – roll with it! And I promise you, life will begin to be kinder. It’s often more about how you perceive what is happening, than what’s really happening.

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All the best,
Zara
Speaker, Individuality Advocate
Author of Living by Design and Living in Harmony

How To Make a Masterpiece From Shattered Pieces of Life

Sometimes it’s a small change. Other times life knocks you with a blow that seems unimaginable! Here’s a fact though: Eventually, you WILL know what it means to be devastated, when you have what I call your “Hurricane Katrina” experience, when life as you know it is ripped from under you, or when you learn a “truth” about somebody who’s not who you thought they were, or when a condition is unveiled and is not as you’ve believed.

Whether it’s already happened, it’s happening now or it’s yet to be realized, here’s what you need to know: What somebody else does is NOT a reflection of you but an amplification of them, and to learn the truth about a condition is the point that you KNOW the truth, but the truth was always there.

It is in THAT moment that while you WILL be hurt and feel betrayed, you must also be grateful that “truth” prevails. Unless you’re operating based on truth, you live lies. Pick up the pieces, Baby, for they will be the cornerstones of your masterpiece.

Nothing happens TO you – life HAPPENS! Good happens, bad happens and outright ugly happens in the life of every single person, and each of us, based on our skill level, either reacts or responds.  Whether you react or respond has everything to do with your mindset and how much (or little) you’ve developed, emotionally.

To react, means you’re totally operating on raw emotion, your default setting. In that case, nothing learned is nothing earned. Consider this: You’ve got to learn your job effectively in order to earn a living to supply your needs. You’ve got to  earn a reputation to be trusted through merit. And in that same way, you have to learn to respond effectively to whatever life sends your way because it’s the only way to grow.

Here’s what it boils down to: You’ve got to be willing to L.E.G. Up – LEARN, EMBRACE and GROW UP! Change happens to develop you, not to punish you, but you’ve got to be willing to embrace change as it comes (and to make changes when necessary), learn from every experience and grow because of them.  You’ve got to choose, no matter how difficult, to make your NEXT Decision BETTER!

We’re growin’ UP…Grown IS Sexy! Huh?

Tell me what you think…how have you changed and grown from life’s experiences? Or, in what ways are you still struggling to grow through change? Maybe we can help.

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All the best,
Zara
Speaker, Individuality Advocate
Author of Living by Design and Living in Harmony