Stop Crying Start Living

Are you ready to make a Change? Do you need to see reason to live? Worth and Purpose? Want a new Vision for your Life? Is the horse you keep trying to ride dead? Time to dismount? Let go of your past and move on. It's holding you back. Will you dare to place a bet on YOU?

If so, welcome to your New Bylaws for Living, and new thinking to help you stay the course:

"Your Past Cannot Defeat You, But It Can Promote You!"

"Your Past Does Not Define You, It Refines You!"

How? It's really quite simple - After enough "Aha! Moments" (crash landings/crash-and-burns) you emerge wiser, stronger and focused with a new vision for your future - if you want one.

While this is my maiden pitch at creating a blog, I do have much to share. My intent is to recognize the painful setbacks that arise in Life and then share how to recast their destructive roles by recalibrating our perception and approach as we move beyond their traps.

I do not bring this to you as a 'wannabe dr. phil' so don't even go there. I'm coming from somewhere all my own, with the layers of hurt that smothered me for years - until I had that What Now? moment. It opened my eyes to a new way to look at what happened to tear my world apart, and I found that pathway brought me to freedom."

It's not what happens to us that we must focus upon. It's how we choose to respond that is key to our successful rise and come-back from our ashes. That's where this blog is going.

You know, some of our crash landings/crash-and-burns were brought on by ... guess who? You. Me. All of us have made decisions without full research, and choices without regard for the consequences. Those were our fault. So we pay the price and add those struggles from hell to our "Aha Moments" list. But other falls into the fire were and are purely circumstance, of external causes, not our fault. Either way you ice the cake, it still resulted in hurtful setbacks.

You see, the 'things' you've crashed into will crumble and then fade to memory; just make sure YOU don't or you'll miss your next moment. You do know that this latest explosion that has brought you so much disappointment has an upside, don't you? Part One is the lesson just learned called New Wisdom; Part Two is the strength you gained from surviving it. You did survive it, right? If you'll check your mirror, Egads! You're still here! Not to waste another lane of Life, but to stake your claim on Life. Time to forge a new road now...Don't look back.

You've believed in everyone else; why not believe you deserve a real shot at a purposed life? You are not an empty vessel. You don't know that because you haven't run inventory in a long while. Go ahead. Dare to place a bet on you! As we move forward, you will find out you placed your bet on a winner. (I bet'cha!)

You could say "It's all in 'how you look at it" and I've heard that phrase most of my adult life. Truer words were never spoken. It really is "all in how you look at it."

Soon, I will periodically add concrete to this opening passage for Stop Crying-Start Living. It is important that we "keep going and keep growing." Don't just take up space - put your name there and inhabit it!