Inspiraelevation

Validation is as important to the human spirit as oxygen is to the human body. The exchange of fresh oxygen into the body sustains us. Validation empowers and vitalizes.

Validation, as defined by Merriam-webster is a confirmation, it is the act of recognizing, establishing, or illustrating worthiness.

As humans from time to time, we must all be reminded of our worthiness, purpose, and the legitimacy of our actions.

We must be reminded that we matter.

 

Sometimes we get lost in the fray of life.

We forget.

We must be inspired to remember.

We are often told we must not seek for others to validate us.

We must not look to others to tell us our worth.

However,

This is a great conundrum.

As a result, we have come to believe that we do not need others, that we only need ourselves.  This is a destructive truth.

One inspired man once said, “no man is an island.”

Yes, we must accept the totality of ourselves apart from the opinions of others,  but we very much need others.

We very much need encouragement, appreciation, and confirmation.

Many a tragedy has occurred due to vain efforts to seek validation in the wrong things from the wrong people.

We as humans  need validation and that is undeniable, to deny such a fact is an absurdity.

 

In case you have not heard it today. I want to tell you that,

You have a purpose.

Even best-laid plans are sometimes interrupted.

When we start, we start with vigor, energy, hopes, and plans for excellence.

There is so much that we desire, and so much we hope to achieve.

It is not hidden from us that excellence requires work, focus, and dogged determination. Thus, we work and continue to work our hardest to do the right things, in the right manner, with the most effort, to obtain that which we most want.

However, life happens to all.

Although we have chosen our course carefully, life’s circumstances have a way of altering our routes.

It is inexplicable.

For some it’s unbearable.

 

No one ever said that there wouldn’t be setbacks. No one ever said the roads would be clear and easy.

One of the secrets to living a blessed and abundant life is knowing that there will be setbacks and how to respond to setbacks to set yourself up for a comeback.

Trust me the destination is worth the journey.

How to come back from a setback

1. Understand that detours, speed bumps, and roadblocks are part of the process.

2. When and if you come upon those obstacles that seem to impede your journey remain in a state of calm and repose.

3. Change your route without altering your destination.

This is not easy! It can be done.

This requires drawing strength from within, accepting support from without, and pressing forward knowing that although you don’t understand the purpose behind it all, there is a reason.

What you hope to achieve is still waiting there for you.

But alas, we are only human.

 

The deferment of plans, detours, and roadblocks can damper our spirits.

Too many setbacks can play a huge toll on the human psyche and weaken both spirit and resolve.

4. Seek Motivation

We need reminders, cheerleaders, and motivation. We need elevation; those things that lift our spirits, bringing to our remembrance that inner reserve of strength, reminding us to finish as strong as we started.  We need that boost to give us the necessary motivation to come back from a setback.

When times get rough seek to get motivated.  And refuse to give up.

Setbacks are often only a part of the process on the journey to becoming awesome and achieving excellence.

 

When trying to achieve, one can sometimes get weighed down in the process but consequently building success takes strength, stamina, and sacrifice to push aside those weights.

Regrettably,  moments of exhaustion weighed against current progress and reward can make it all seem impossible and unnecessary.

These very moments lead many to question resolve and vision; leading them to entertain thoughts of un-surety.

The looming question, “why”, searches purpose, looking for flaws and  reasons to give up.

In such circumstances, one can  frequently find himself or herself evaluating the worthiness of the day-to- day grind.

 Unbeknownst to many, this is where defeat commences.

While one has not yet ceased to move forward, one begins to slow down.

Don’t slow down!

I urge you to denounce these thoughts and refuse to sow seeds of doubt. 

Temporary hardships and difficulties can blind us. However, we only need a moment of rationality; a moment to look beyond ourselves to bring us back, to give us the energy to refocus and push all the harder.

Some wise man once said

Take a moment to look around, remind yourself of your blessings, and what it took to get you where you are now.  I assure you that what we are going through, to get to what we desire to do, is incomparable in weight to what we are going to accomplish.

Today take the time to look beyond yourself, count your blessings,  and reenergize to move forward.

This is your year.

 

 

Perhaps what you hope to achieve this year looks next to impossible.

Maybe it seems like there is a big gulf between where you are and where you are declaring you will be.

If you are thinking this cease and desist.

Despite what things may seem, I challenge you to look beyond sight.

Trust.

Believe that you can achieve that, which you first avowed.

Don’t doubt.

You can and you will do it.

This is your year!

Giant leaps begin with tiny steps forward.

Inch by inch, hour by hour,  and day by day.

You build your success and achievement one step at a time.

Put one foot in front of the other and gradually accelerate until you  have the momentum to leave the ground

Don’t waste one second.

This very minute you are determining the height of your ascent.

Everything that you are doing right now at this very moment is preparing  you for what is to come.

Little investment equals little returns, big investments equivocate to big returns and no investments equates to a zero sum.

Right this very second, this very moment you are determining your outcome.

We are midway into the first month of the new year and  I hope that every day you are making the tough decisions.

I hope that you are making the choice to invest your time, your energy, and your resources into moving forward.

We have pledged to excel to make our dreams a reality.

We have vowed to take on wings and soar I am holding you to that.

Every day do something towards your goal, don’t deviate, don’t hesitate, don’t waiver, commit and just do it.

 

Keep an accountability journal.

Do this every day, every week, and every month.

You just watch as you ascend to unfathomable heights just because you chose to invest in yourself, in your goal, and in achieving.

We can do it.

Let’s get it done

As I look around today, in a moment of  midday contemplation, a moment in time nestled aptly between the past and the future, I sit pondering. Pondering as I so often do the mysteries of the universe, exploring my inner depths for solution and resolution. As I sit, thoughts of days past flash through my mind. Images are projected in real time upon my mental inviting me to remember myself sitting in this very place a year ago today. Just as then, now  filled with  hope, and a measure of uncertainty. So many things have I desired but with no reasonable solution as how to claim them.

I had no clue of what today would look like or what the days leading up to this day would contain. Looking back, I am awed.

I am so humbled.

The miraculous processing of my  mental faculties has permitted my eyes to remain open to my soul’s refrain and heaven and natures response.

There is no way I could have known or foreseen all that has befallen my lot this year. Today, all I can do is sit in the seat of gratitude as I muse over the many miracles that have taken place over the year to get me to this very moment. There is no way I could have made the leap from the precipice that I stood on in 2014 to the mountain I stand on here and now in 2015 without miracles of divine proportions.

 

 

My thoughts do not merely cease there, they always extend outward. As I sit thinking about  humanity, I felt a great emptiness, fragmentation, and incompletion. There is so much  missing in humanity at this point. We are a lost and broken people. The destitution of our spirits if far-reaching. Despite our growth as a global population, we are dying. This is heart wrenching.

We have added so much to the world technologically and scientifically but yet we are in a state of constant devolvement.

We are in retrograde and all of nature is rebelling.

We live with too much expectation.

As a people, we have become hell-bent on degradation to ends of self-gratification and self-edification.

There is no communal  unity, there is no we, it is only about what “I ” think and what “I” believe, all the whilst trampling the experiences of all other living beings. At the end of the day, it is not what I can do for you but what you can do for me.We are the biggest manufacturers and sellers of greed. We consume more than we seed.

The most important system is a vocal majority of naysayer’s, of pompous relativists, a multitude of indignant and self-righteous”me’s”.

We have lost touch and we can no longer see. We are groping in the dark  and every tragic step pushing us further from the light.

We no longer see the miraculous in the mundane.

There is nothing sacred or divine.

There is nothing holy or refined.

We set aside nothing and worship everything.

We leave nothing to the imagination and boast in our vanity,  posting our shame to entertain, living by the mantra “life is a stage and all men merely actors.” Why not play the game.

Everything for us has become like cellophane use, abuse, and throw away like refuse.

Now is the time for a change. Now is the time for revolution and resolution. Now is the time for transformation and rebirth of civilization. It starts with you. The future is what you make. It is what we make it.  Will you make the leap with me to succeed

I could not but fathom the miracles I have received, can you imagine what is waiting for you and me in 2016. I don’t’ know, but I am ready to believe that what is waiting for me on the other side is everything, more than I  ever dreamed. What do you say will you fly with me?