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Sabotage: What is it, why do we do it, and how to overcome it:
I don't know about you, but my life has had a fairly decent share of crisis, difficulties, hard times. We all have. Needless to say, when life goes well, I can't help but brace myself for the next shoe to fall. Something will spoil it. There's always the good with the bad until we die. After all, life has never been fair. So, I do not expect it to be anything different at this stage in the game.
There are times a hard time is something we cannot control. It just happens. We can't do anything about it except go with it and try not to struggle too much and make the situation worse.
However, since my life has seen so many challenges, I think I manufacture them sometimes. I think it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. I think that it will happen anyway, so why not make it happen sooner rather than later. Consequently, I add stresses to my life that don't need to be there. I set unrealistic deadlines. I beat myself up if I don't get things done. I get frustrated when life does not go my way.
At the moment, my life is everything I aimed for it to be. I spent the last 8 years intentionality working to bring my life to this point. Eight long, hard years of hard work and a great deal of mindfulness and intentionality in all I did. Now that I'm here, I keep wondering when something will change my bliss. It always does change. So, why fool myself into thinking this time is different?
What a lie.
Where is my faith?
Bad does not have to happen.
I can choose to focus on the positive and cling to my faith. I can seek to draw nearer to God. It's the most important thing I can do in my life and has eternal implications.
I can choose to allow good to happen and see my hard labor pay off and give God the glory for my good times at the moment.
Life does change on a dime.
However, it does not mean I need to diminish the good. I don't need to sabotage myself. I just need to focus on what is important to me.
Do you sabotage things in your life?
Stacy Duplease of Stories by Stacy and Publishing by Stacy
Showing posts with label Life Challenges. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Life Challenges. Show all posts
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Monday, June 15, 2009
Theme of the Week and Color: The Spice of Life by Stacy Duplease of Stories by Stacy
Theme of the Week
On Twitter this morning, I shared how I searched for a theme of the week. I tend to have songs that go through my mind and the one that started to go through my mind was, "Color My World." Now, I know what you're thinking. Corny. Overdone. Too much. Too sugary. However, you'll learn that I am corny and am a hopeless romantic. Love is never too much or overdone in my book. So, the song fits me.
How did the song give me a theme for the week? Easy.
Life
Life is: beautiful, challenging, blessed, impossible, etc. You fill in the blank about what you think life is. However, I can tell you that's my main purpose of my writing is to write about the variety of life: the good, the bad, the ugly, the blessings, the secrets, the dreams, the love, and the faith we get from this so called life.
My goal is to show how regardless of how impossible and tough life can be, it's what we choose to make it. Moreover, we can find the blessings even in the hard times to hold onto and it can help us through the hard times.
I've had a difficult life at best. My grandmother tells me time and time again how I've seen more tragedy in my young(er) life than most people see in several. It's true. But, I thank the Lord for it because it made me who I am and has given me things to write about.
I hope to help others through life and bring us together because everyone deals with life and it connects us. We're not alone.
Color: The Spice of Life
Now, back to the theme of the week: Color: The Spice of Life.
On Twitter, I asked the question, What do we do to add color to our lives? Now, I want to expand on it.
What is color that I refer to when I use the term in this blog?
Color is that which gives us depth in our lives and meaning.
Color is beauty.
Color is faith.
Color is what is in our character to add beauty, faith, and love to our lives.
Color is what gives life an edge and makes it sacred or blessed.
So, my question is... How do you color your world? What spice do you give your life to make it deeper and more full of meaning?
Stacy Duplease of Stories by Stacy and Publishing by Stacy
On Twitter this morning, I shared how I searched for a theme of the week. I tend to have songs that go through my mind and the one that started to go through my mind was, "Color My World." Now, I know what you're thinking. Corny. Overdone. Too much. Too sugary. However, you'll learn that I am corny and am a hopeless romantic. Love is never too much or overdone in my book. So, the song fits me.
How did the song give me a theme for the week? Easy.
Life
Life is: beautiful, challenging, blessed, impossible, etc. You fill in the blank about what you think life is. However, I can tell you that's my main purpose of my writing is to write about the variety of life: the good, the bad, the ugly, the blessings, the secrets, the dreams, the love, and the faith we get from this so called life.
My goal is to show how regardless of how impossible and tough life can be, it's what we choose to make it. Moreover, we can find the blessings even in the hard times to hold onto and it can help us through the hard times.
I've had a difficult life at best. My grandmother tells me time and time again how I've seen more tragedy in my young(er) life than most people see in several. It's true. But, I thank the Lord for it because it made me who I am and has given me things to write about.
I hope to help others through life and bring us together because everyone deals with life and it connects us. We're not alone.
Color: The Spice of Life
Now, back to the theme of the week: Color: The Spice of Life.
On Twitter, I asked the question, What do we do to add color to our lives? Now, I want to expand on it.
What is color that I refer to when I use the term in this blog?
Color is that which gives us depth in our lives and meaning.
Color is beauty.
Color is faith.
Color is what is in our character to add beauty, faith, and love to our lives.
Color is what gives life an edge and makes it sacred or blessed.
So, my question is... How do you color your world? What spice do you give your life to make it deeper and more full of meaning?
Stacy Duplease of Stories by Stacy and Publishing by Stacy
Monday, June 8, 2009
Why is It? Self-Focus, Negative Thinking, Just Drifting By, Hope, & Moving Thoughts: By Stacy Duplease of Stories by Stacy
Readers of Blog:
If you're reading this, will you please drop me a line, follow the blog, comment, or send me an email and tell me what you think, please?
Writers:
Also check out my www.writingstoriesbystacy.blogspot.com/ blog. It's set up as a way to connect authors, writers, and and anyone who's creative. It's to help encourage one another and to help endorse one another.
Happy Monday, by the way!
Why is It and Self-Focus:
Why is it that people are more self-focused than anything else? As a Christian, I would say why are we more self-focused than others' focused? To others, I would say, why are we more focused on self than on focusing on the positive and helping others? We're in this thing called life--together. Why make it harder on each other or on ourselves than necessary?
The Darkness of Life Challenges and Hope
Life brings us so many challenges daily that it's hard not to feel overwhelmed, dark, and gloomy. However, we always have hope. Hope can be our light. Hope can hold us up. It's difficult, and sometimes impossible, to see the hope in times of darkness.
What are you struggling with?
The Negative and Negative-Thinking:
Why do we choose to focus on the negative? Life is challenging enough without doing this to ourselves. Furthermore, what's the point? It only makes our lives more miserable.
Drifting By:
Why is it we're all just drifting by and are meandering through this thing called life? Is it because of life's challenges that we tend to stop holding on to hope and faith that we forget that we're making it more difficult on ourselves?
Why is it that we aren't taking life more seriously as the gift that it is? Every day is a new beginning we can choose to do with whatever we want. Yet, we forget this.
Christians:
How seriously are you taking your faith? Are you just drifting by? Or, are you claiming it? Are you living it? Or, are you so beaten down that you don't know which way to turn any more?
Serious Thoughts:
How often do you analyze where you are in life? After you do, do you determine to live a brighter life? More uplifted? More focused on what is really important and on what really matters?
Why is It We've Gotten so Lazy?
Why is it we have the mentality that someone else will do it? Or, the mentality that just you will not make a difference? Precious generations never had this thinking. They knew they weren't entitled. They knew they had to each do something about it. Even when life was difficult, they picked themselves up and wiped off the dirt from their jeans, and moved on with life.
Why is it We Refuse to Take a Stand?
Why is we're more likely to condemn someone else's belief when we won't do anything about our own or stand behind our own?
Christians, I think of our responsiblity here. Yet, we're so busy focused on the world and self that we don't take a stand. Why?
Patriotism:
Why have we allowed our country of the good old USA to die? Why is it we've allowed morality to go out the window and sit by--being fine with it?
Just some thoughts to light a fire under out hindends to get up and do soemthing. We ened to focus more on the right things, less on self, and even less on the negative unless it's to overcome the negative. We've got to take an active stand on what's right. We've got to have hope and faith in these times of darkness. We need to stop just drifting my.
My book, "Driftwood People" and my blog at http://www.usastoriesbystacy.blogspot.com/ talk about these things.
So, what do you think?
Moving Thoughts:
I'm getting ready to move from Denver to Omaha and spent the weekend packing. I've never lived anywhere else and my family all lives in Denver. I'm a third generation Colorado native, after all. Therefore, as I packed, I found myself feeling quite sad. Yet, I can't wait for a new beginning. I can't wait to see what happens! It's guaranteed to be a new and different journey that takes me down an unexpected path. For that, I can't wait.
Stacy Duplease of Stories by Stacy and Publishing by Stacy
If you're reading this, will you please drop me a line, follow the blog, comment, or send me an email and tell me what you think, please?
Writers:
Also check out my www.writingstoriesbystacy.blogspot.com/ blog. It's set up as a way to connect authors, writers, and and anyone who's creative. It's to help encourage one another and to help endorse one another.
Happy Monday, by the way!
Why is It and Self-Focus:
Why is it that people are more self-focused than anything else? As a Christian, I would say why are we more self-focused than others' focused? To others, I would say, why are we more focused on self than on focusing on the positive and helping others? We're in this thing called life--together. Why make it harder on each other or on ourselves than necessary?
The Darkness of Life Challenges and Hope
Life brings us so many challenges daily that it's hard not to feel overwhelmed, dark, and gloomy. However, we always have hope. Hope can be our light. Hope can hold us up. It's difficult, and sometimes impossible, to see the hope in times of darkness.
What are you struggling with?
The Negative and Negative-Thinking:
Why do we choose to focus on the negative? Life is challenging enough without doing this to ourselves. Furthermore, what's the point? It only makes our lives more miserable.
Drifting By:
Why is it we're all just drifting by and are meandering through this thing called life? Is it because of life's challenges that we tend to stop holding on to hope and faith that we forget that we're making it more difficult on ourselves?
Why is it that we aren't taking life more seriously as the gift that it is? Every day is a new beginning we can choose to do with whatever we want. Yet, we forget this.
Christians:
How seriously are you taking your faith? Are you just drifting by? Or, are you claiming it? Are you living it? Or, are you so beaten down that you don't know which way to turn any more?
Serious Thoughts:
How often do you analyze where you are in life? After you do, do you determine to live a brighter life? More uplifted? More focused on what is really important and on what really matters?
Why is It We've Gotten so Lazy?
Why is it we have the mentality that someone else will do it? Or, the mentality that just you will not make a difference? Precious generations never had this thinking. They knew they weren't entitled. They knew they had to each do something about it. Even when life was difficult, they picked themselves up and wiped off the dirt from their jeans, and moved on with life.
Why is it We Refuse to Take a Stand?
Why is we're more likely to condemn someone else's belief when we won't do anything about our own or stand behind our own?
Christians, I think of our responsiblity here. Yet, we're so busy focused on the world and self that we don't take a stand. Why?
Patriotism:
Why have we allowed our country of the good old USA to die? Why is it we've allowed morality to go out the window and sit by--being fine with it?
Just some thoughts to light a fire under out hindends to get up and do soemthing. We ened to focus more on the right things, less on self, and even less on the negative unless it's to overcome the negative. We've got to take an active stand on what's right. We've got to have hope and faith in these times of darkness. We need to stop just drifting my.
My book, "Driftwood People" and my blog at http://www.usastoriesbystacy.blogspot.com/ talk about these things.
So, what do you think?
Moving Thoughts:
I'm getting ready to move from Denver to Omaha and spent the weekend packing. I've never lived anywhere else and my family all lives in Denver. I'm a third generation Colorado native, after all. Therefore, as I packed, I found myself feeling quite sad. Yet, I can't wait for a new beginning. I can't wait to see what happens! It's guaranteed to be a new and different journey that takes me down an unexpected path. For that, I can't wait.
Stacy Duplease of Stories by Stacy and Publishing by Stacy
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