Drive By Photographer

Why is it that we start something we are always so focused on the end result. We begin things with visions of grandeur and if they don’t come out exactly like we want, we become discouraged. We should be focused on the doing rather than the end product.

In order to achieve something great, one must make many efforts. Often times the thing of greatness will not happen on the first try. In doing, you are creating effort and therefore working towards the end goal, but don’t get hung up on what that may look like, because truth be told, it may change while you are working on it.

My advise: just keep pushing through. Keep adding one brick, one stone, or one piece of wood to the project at hand. While you are doing this give thanks and sit back and learn, take in the feelings of what felt good about the project and what doesn’t. This helps you when you have to redo or start another project of similar scope.

As you work, you get better at what you do, you learn what works and what doesn’t and therefore you make yourself smarter along the way. Its the continued effort of trial and error. Try one thing and if it works, use it again, if not, approach it from a different angle.

No matter what you do, never give up. Show yourself and the world that you are committed to this thing and persist in achieving it and it shall be yours.

Until next time…

You may not realize it, but there are so many things in your life to be thankful for at this moment. Wherever you are, whatever you are going through, make sure to focus on the things that matter and to give thanks for them.

Everyone has problems, challenges, struggles, and difficulties in life, yet its what you focus on that will free you from the pain of hurt and live in limitless joy.

Stop bitching about what you don’t have and focus on the abundance that is already around you. Instead of being hateful to those that hurt you, abused you, beat you, wronged you or even raped you, focus on the people that lifted you up and brushed you off and told you they loved you. They have to be there, else you wouldn’t be standing where you are standing today.

If you find yourself in a worrysome situation or in fear over the impending future, stop thinking for a minute and just breath. Focus rather on the hardships you have endured and put yourself in a happy place to know that you made it through the despair. Know with every fiber of your being that you can always remain standing through whatever life throws your way.

If you have dreams that have not been filled, you need to give thanks for them. Imagine if you had accomplished everything you set out to do, that would be the most boring life possible…especially if you achieved it early on in life. Be present in the now and give thanks and know that there are other goals that you are going to tackle as you move forward. There is no right or wrong or best or worst when accomplishing something, just a piece of mind that you did it.

Live in love and allow yourself to live in that gratitude that you are wonderful, beautiful, amazing and unique. Approach everything with an open heart, an abundant heart, a loving heart and a thankful heart. You will find yourself less stressed about the future and living in love and light which is where we all strive to be. Know that I and many others love you, but more than that, that you love yourself, for that is what matters.

Until next time

If you feel you are not making progress, it is because your mind is a terrible obstacle. Pat yourself on the back and reward yourself for all that you have done.

If you forget why you are on the chosen path, remind yourself why it is you do what you love. Focus on all the positives and eliminate the negatives that may try and creep in. Walking is done one step at a time.

Remind yourself often of what is important to you. Family, friends, laughter and your amazing ability to attract new and wonderful people in your life. Find whats REALLY important to you and do that.

Our mind has a way of telling us that we are not good enough, when the reality is that we, in our current state, are perfect and need not achieve anything other than right now, because there is no past and the future is a dream.

Take time to appreciate you and all that you do, for those around you as well as yourself. You are beautiful and magnificent at this moment and NO ONE can take that away from you. Go watch a sunset, put on your favorite music, watch children play in the park…just be.

The best of your life is waiting for you right now, not in the future or in some distant memory from your past, but right now. Give yourself the love admiration and respect you deserve. Brush yourself off and be in love.

Until Next time…

Mazzy Star

Into Dust

Still falling
Breathless and on again
Inside today
Inside me today
Around broken in two
Til your eyes share into dust
Like two strangers turning into dust
Til my hand shook with the weight of fear
I could possibly be fading
Or have something more to gain
I could feel myself growing colder
I could feel myself under your fate
Under your fate
It was you, breathless and torn
I could feel my eyes turning into dust
Into strangers, turning into dust
Turning into dust
Turning into dust

We all have expectations and the expectations can be end results. Things such as health, happiness, wealth abundance and friends. It is good to have such a wide array of expectations, because these are the fabrics of manifesting the life that you so desire and become the formula for manifesting your dreams.

However, expecting your life to follow a certain road, such as becoming a movie star, making a top ten album on itunes, accumulating a certain amount of wealth, having someone fall in love with you-especially a particular person, or deciding that some diet, invention or some idea is going to be your salvation, is messing with the ways of the universe. Don’t limit the your options.

Many people seem to think that i am superhuman. I am here to advise you that I am human just like everyone else. I have emotions, I have good days, bad days and then there are times when i just break down and cry.

Sometimes life presents so many things at your feet that it can be overwhelming. This morning, after a lack of sleep, I woke up and put on some music that I knew would get me into that emotional place, walked out on the balcony, after getting ready for work, looked at the slope behind my room at the Hotel Park city, and got into that place and just let go…and cried.

Some days are better than others….some days are very good and some days you just can’t put your finger on what is going on inside of you. You just accept that you don’t feel like you always do and then move on. Today seems to be one of those days.

As I was crying on my balcony and feeling whatever was going on, I began to realize that maybe I am different. Maybe my calling is different in the sense that I am not destined for conventional. Maybe my life is destined for the service of others. As I sat there and realized that I have a gift, a gift that people can release and open up to me, I realized it is almost like being a superhero.

I imagined being a superhero, like superman or spiderman…destined for a life of isolation and the fact that love may not find me…because its not in the cards. I can’t really say, I can say that I know love is real. Dictionary.com defines love as “a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.” another definition is “affectionate concern for the well-being of others:” My love for others will always exist. I love everyone and enjoy crossing their paths in order to help them overcome some obstacle in their life. For intensive purposes, I am really referring to the former of the love definitions.

Maybe the universe decides or needs me to be absent of that kind of love and to be free to do at a moments notice. In that, I am happy to serve, but part of me becomes sad. Never being able to give myself 100% to someone that you love (either for fear of not being loved back or because maybe its not the Universes plan for me).

I sit content and just be. Trying to remove any emotions that I have, for also knowing that love is my weakness. It breaks me down and removes my ability to think on a logical level and therefore causes me to make decisions that may not be best for my future. In all actuality, i just have to be…I have to feel… I have to constrain…

until next time…