Be Still

Strength Journals

Out of Your MInd

     Do you ever think too hard? To the point of making your head feel like it will explode with all of the thoughts you are thinking. More like the thoughts you are over thinking. That one thing you are thinking of starts out as a minor issue but by the time you are done thinking on it, its turned into one huge gnarled up knot of an issue. Or at least that's what you think. You've thought yourself into doubt, past handling the issue at hand with a confident thought. In fact you have thought so long and hard that you have thought yourself right out of seeing the goal and right into a bunch of obstacles stacked up by the doubt you brought on board a few thoughts ago. Quit! Just stop right there. No more evaluating the circumstance, no more thinking. Thinking about something until you over think it doesn't give you more control over it, it gives it control over you. Get out of your mind and leave things alone. Step away from your thoughts for awhile to allow yourself to see clearly again. Let the overwhelming deluge of doubt and insecurities - the OBSTACLES- that get a foot hold from over-thinking drain away, they will if you just give yourself half a chance by quieting that busy mind for a few moments and allow yourself to regain your sight on the original goal.  Have faith and believe that in you lies the passion that you need to continue with your pursuit. That by quieting your thoughts you are quieting your heart enough to allow faith to work!

You Are Strong

Strength Journals

Challenge

     Are we up for the challenge? Many times life it seems is one challenge after another. You make it through one challenge and then life hands you another one to slide right into the place of the challenge you just met. Your mind screams that you need a break! You think to yourself "I am not ready to take on this challenge!" Sometimes I for one feel like throwing myself on the ground and having a good old fashioned temper tantrum when life does this. I just don't feel up to yet another challenge. I am tired. Wrung out. Done. So now what? Life doesn't give us the choice of turning down the challenge. The only choice we have is how we meet that challenge and the next challenge and the challenge after that. Sometimes I square my shoulders and plant my feet so to speak and yet others I tackle by digging my heels in-or shall I say being stubborn and defiant to the challenge that lays before me. Every now and then it might be that I have to let out all of my strength in tear form and cry. Choose to meet your challenges. Remember that there is more then one way to meet those challenges and meeting them may take some strategy on your behalf because letting them get the best of you is not an option!

Baby Steps

Strength Journals

The Well

     Our inner strength, that deep well of grit that we have come to depend on. There are times when I've had to dig deep into that well, times that I have scraped the bottom and come up with less grit then I felt I needed at the time. Sometimes I have felt like my well of strength is dried up, nothing left, that the only choice I had was to just hold on, to stay my position. My strength isn't really all used up, I've just lost sight of it. In the jumbled mess of my thoughts, my emotions, my anxiousness at what I am going through at that moment my focus on my inner strength becomes obscured. Time to step back, breathe, readjust my position. Plant my feet and square my shoulders. Regain my focus on that inner strength. Keep having the faith to move forward, even if it is just baby steps.

Believe