6. Don’t Allow Anyone to Get the Best of You

6.  Don’t allow anyone to get the best of you, their offense isn’t against you, it’s against self, so just keep it moving

Many times we project our own internal struggles onto others.  The thing we often hate in others is merely a reflection of ourselves.  Hurting people, hurt people! So, can you imagine what loving people can do?  Loving people, love people!  Don’t allow the negative behaviors of others change you, or change the way you treat others.  The beauty in this is that we can bring balance to us, and our world, by offsetting their negativity with our positivity.

So, let’s keep it moving...

5. Share Your Affirmations

Sharing is caring.  So many times I’ve shared daily affirmations/inspirations with others only to learn later how much they have helped.

5.  Share Your Affirmations or Daily Inspirations with Others, You Might Just be Helping Someone Else, and Keep it Moving

When we help others, we in turn help ourselves.  It’s the boomerang effect.

So remember to share your affirmations/inspirations and keep it moving...

4. Have Daily Affirmations

I added this to the list because it's something that I do daily and serves as a reminder to always search for something inspiring that serves to make me a better person, so that I can share the best of me with others.

4.  Have Daily Affirmations.  Write Your Own or Find Some That You Like and Read Aloud and Keep it Moving.

Happiness or sadness begins with a thought (everything begins with a thought).  If we dwell on sad, depressing thoughts that’s where we will stay. Having daily inspirations/affirmations are crucial to our happiness.  They act as motivators for those days when it’s difficult finding the positives in life.  We all have those days, when we’re so tired of disappointments, of all the nonsense that comes with living that we sometimes find it hard to motivate ourselves. Don’t stay in that space.  Find daily affirmations or inspirational quotes. Save the ones that speak to your soul.  Pinterest is a good place to find affirmations or inspirational quotes.  If you can’t find any, write your own.  Think about what you would like to say to you, and go from there.

When you’re done inspiring and affirming yourself, remember to keep it moving...

3. Stay Positive!

I have to remind myself of this EVERY day!

3.  Stay Positive!  Sometimes it’s hard, but try anyway and keep it moving

Oh my word, staying positive!  This, my dear, must be practiced all day, every day.  It's definitely not easy, especially with all that's going on in the world.  We all go through seasons where it seems so easy to be positive and other times we struggle to get a good thought out.  

Remember, it’s a whole lot easier to stay positive when things are going the way we want it, but as soon as things start going off track, from the way we designed it, we find it hard to think, much less to think good/positive thoughts.  When there’s money flowing, it’s very easy to be positive, but when the finances aren’t flowing, then that’s a whole other story.  Don’t beat yourself up about it.  Just shake yourself and try again.  Learn to encourage yourself, because many times the people you were there for aren’t going to be there for you.  

Hey, it’s ok to talk to yourself! Speak good things to you, about you, for you.

You got this!  Stay positive and keep it moving...

2. Love Yourself

Yes, I had to remind myself to do this.  Loving self isn’t easy, and many times we just go through life putting everything and everyone above this action.  What does it mean to love self?  It means accepting all of who we are.  It means taking time to take a personal assessment of our life and getting to the soul of the matter of our self-doubts, and self-sabotaging/destructing habits, so that we can stop repeating them.  We have to learn to love self regardless of the opinion of others.  We have to learn to be okay with us, with all of our being. It’s hard work.  I think it’s harder to have a relationship with self, than it is to have a relationship with someone else, because we have to deal with the cold, hard truths about ourselves, even if they’re ugly and we don’t want to see or acknowledge them.

2.  Love Yourself and Keep It Moving

Love requires us to be truthful with ourselves, about ourselves (all of who we are).  If we cannot do this, we cannot be truthful with others and the lies and the hurt becomes a vicious cycle, because hurt people, hurt people. Sadly, at an early age, we were taught to hate others and ourselves.  We were taught, that certain behaviors were bad, and because others or we engaged in some of these behaviors, we are bad and don’t deserve love or kindness.  This then allowed us to create an internal war that is projected externally upon all we meet.

Loving ourselves is so much deeper than just saying, "I love me!"  Let's learn to acknowledge our truths and be happy with all of who we are, the good, the bad, and the ugly.  There are positives and negatives in this world, and they are all needed to solve problems and create harmony.   

Let's be kind to ourselves and the world.  Love you and keep it moving...

1. Live, Love And Laugh A Lot...

The latter part of 2018 I wrote my 50 keep it moving life lessons.  I shared it on Facebook and a friend suggested that I expound upon each and share.  I decided to start here, and prayerfully they’re able to help someone else.  Every now and then I have to revisit to remind myself to keep it moving, because I don’t know about you, but sometimes things throw me for a loop and I stop dead in my tracks.  It usually takes me a little bit of time to shake myself and get going again.

1. Live, Love And Laugh A Lot And Keep It Moving

This seems so easy to do doesn’t it?  Live, Love And Laugh, but some days it’s hard.  Living can be challenging, especially, with all that life sometimes demand from us.  Sometimes, we take it way too seriously, and forget to live, love or laugh.

A friend once told me, “Life is too serious to take seriously.”  I guess it stuck with me because it seemed so puzzling at first (I was much younger then).  Actually, my initial thought was, “That’s a bunch of BS and cop out!”  But, if we really stop to think about it, it simply means that we should find the humor in the seriousness and flip the script.  Enjoy every moment, because at the end of the day, it isn’t serious at all.  Nothing really is!!!  We make it serious.  We have certain expectations that we place upon others, and when expectations are not met, we are disappointed and hurt, causing the ripple effect of not living, not loving, and not laughing. 

In this new season, let’s learn to let things go quickly, so that we are able to live, love, and laugh a lot and keep it moving.  Life is too beautiful to not be doing this!

So, let’s Live, Love and Laugh A lot and Keep it Moving...

HerStory is HIStory

I met a young lady on one of my assignments (aka jobs) that always seemed to be on the defense. Anything that happened, even something that didn’t seem like an issue became an issue.  One day, while in prayer, I prayed for her and while praying I saw this little girl who kept fighting for her life.  I saw an abused child, and understood a little better who I was working with.  I didn’t talk to her about it; I just tried to work differently with her.  Later on, she wrote a book, and the book revealed much of what I saw in prayer. 

Today, I was reminded of herStory, which is really HIStory and I was reminded of a poem I wrote about 12 years ago called Do You Know ME?  Here’s an excerpt:

“Do You Know Me?

Do you know ME?

They call me…Victim

A victim of …Circumstance

Because I fell

…Fell in love with

…the “wrong” man

A troubled man

I saw the signs, but I thought…

I thought I was… “the one”

The one that will change him

Surely, he won’t treat me like…

…like the others

I am special

I am a lady

Do you know ME?

They call me…abused

An abused woman

Scarred emotionally

And physically

Because he told me

…he told me I was nothing

…no one will ever love me…

Love me like he could…”

“And I believed him

So, I married him

And he hit me, because…

Just because I looked

       too pretty

Do you know ME?

I am woman

I am woman

Woman hit by...

Woman kicked by…

Woman shot by…

Woman stabbed by…

Woman called names by…

My counterpart…

…man”

Excerpt From

Plugged In

Lady Lorraine Grey

https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/plugged-in/id611010800?mt=11

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Let’s remember to be kind to others, because we don’t know the weight of the burdens they are carrying. We think that each person is just like us, and is experiencing life the same as we are, but that is not the case. 

In the process, remember to be kind with yourself.  Love you always!

Continued Blessings...