Set Yourself Free

 Sometimes in life there is nothing more that we can do other than to let go. Seems easy enough, right? Think again! Think about people that we love, something we love, something that makes us feel good, something that we are good at, or something that we don't want to give up just to prove someone wrong. Sometimes in order to set ourselves free and allow us to fly we need to let go. Let go of the problems at school or work, problems with people, problems with friends or relationships, the people we love and how we want things to be. Whether it's because you simply are afraid to let go or it is because you want to prove someone wrong in the way of doing it.
 By holding on to those things you may very well be holding yourself back, keeping your wings soaked with everything that keeps you down: stress, pain, heartbreak, confusion, hate, guilt. All dripping off of you everyday, hurting you and causing you to be unable to fly.
 As Lee Iaccoca said "There is no substitute for acute knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men." Couldn't have been more right, better watch out for those men, tricky tricky creatures! ;D
 Know yourself. Know your body, if you don't know your body you'll never know when your body is trying to tell you that it has had enough. If you don't know your body you will push and push and push until you are completely burnt out, you have no more and there is no hope of ever finding yourself again or being able to bounce back to you.
 Other times when you DO know yourself it's hard to accept that you are doing the right thing and you can't make up your mind. As Charles Spurgeon said "Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies with us."
 Our own worst enemy you ask? If yourself. You either don't know yourself so you don't know what needs to happen when it needs to happen or you know yourself and you are afraid to let it happen and you choke the life out of yourself.
 In the long run do yourself, and everyone who loves you, a favor. Learn to love and know yourself. Learn to listen to yourself, and set yourself free. If you don't you'll be choked of all life and your wings will never dry.

Finding The Strength...To Shoot And Move On

Sometimes there is nothing else we can do other than to move on...Moving on in friendships, relationships, or just in life. Change is a scary thing, but sometimes it needs to happen. It needs to happen or else we will never be able to change and grow with it, grow and flourish in the things that will help us move on in life and become stronger. Although change is scary, change gives us the amo we need to point, shoot and move on.

 As Henry Rollins once said: "Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength and move on."

You think you are as strong as you can possibly be just before something happens, while it's happening you think 'i cannot possibly be any more broken. I am not going to be able to recover from this. I'm done.' , then once you've been through the ringer, you don't know what to do with yourself and you've gotten through what you swore you were never going to make it through you've become stronger, and gotten off for the better and no even realized it until it happened. Suddenly, something small happens again and you can say to yourself 'Psshhaw! I got this.' and as you're trying to convince yourself, you realize that you're right, you do have it and you are going to be fine.

Remember: Next time you're feeling down and you think you can't make it, that once you're through what you're going through you're going to be able to take on your world. You are going to be able to go through life without feeling like you are drowning and can't get any breath. You'll be strong, and you'll be able to demolish all that gets in your way.

Next time you're feeling defeated work your hardest, Find the strength

To shoot and move on.

Extraordinarily You

Sometimes we see ourselves and we think 'what do they see when they look at me?' 'why the hell would he/she be interested in me?' 'why are they intersted in me?' the answer to all of those questions - and any others that you may have - is : Because you are you and that's what you're extraordinary at!
 
Others may try and dress like, act like, or speak like you do; whether it be in mocking or in admirtation causing them to want to be more like you. Or to get someone that is intersted in you, interested in them. But the truth of it is, no one is as good at being you are you are. Whether they are pro at pretending they can never out YOU yourself.

A favorite actor of mine has some wise words on this subject...Bruce Lee at one point said: "Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a sucessful personality and duplicate it."

He could not have been more right in saying that. Be yourself, express your feelings, desires, and your personality flares. Let people see who you are, the person who sings at the top of the lungs to the embarassing music they have on their iPod, the person who dances around the house when no one is around, the nerd, the excited perky person, the person who has a few down days.

Having personality is a major turn on. Having personality let's people have a small glimpse of what they have in store if they decide to be included in your life. Having personality shows everyone and anyone giving you are hard time, encouraging you, wanting you, loving you, hating you, that no one will EVER be able to be you better than you can. So remember be yourself.

Because You Are: Extraordinarily You