Living Life To The Fullest
What’s the thing you’re most scared to do? What would it take to get you to do it?
This is random but you know what I would love to do but just can’t…..
Is SKYDIVE!
I so wish I had the courage to skydive but I just don’t.
I don’t enjoy flying and I’m pretty sure I’d have a panic attack in the sky.
But I love watching skydiving videos on instagram. It’s seems so liberating and the views, wow the views…… I can only imagine.
What do you complain about the most?
I don’t really complain. At least I don’t consider myself one who does. And I think deep down I know I don’t have the right to complain.
But I do vent. Mostly to my mom, thank God for her.
“Complaining is a defence against the courage to change, while venting addresses the issues and inspires you take action.”
No pressure right.
To anyone else raising the future…..just do your best. That’s all anyone can really do. Continue to learn and teach.
Better yourself.
Sometimes I don’t know whether I am raising my children or they are raising me. I never realized how lost I was before my children entered my life. I also never realized how angry I was.
I don’t know that everyone needs children to self discover. There are some incredible insightful people out there and I always wonder how they became to be.
Each persons journey is a different road, however this path of parenthood has revealed a spectrum of colors I never knew existed.
I owe my children for giving me life in this world.
And I will do my best to raise a beautiful future.
I will do my best.
*listening to ‘my tears are becoming a sea*
What do you enjoy doing most in your leisure time?
Reading.
There’s nothing like discovering a book that you just can’t put down because you’re eager to know, you’re eager to learn and grow, you’re eager to soak up and then disperse what you learn.
If it’s a really good book I can make time almost anywhere to read a few pages.
Do you enjoy reading?
You have to a little bit if you’re reading this. 🙂
At one point or another we’ve all done it. We have avoided responsibility and placed the blame on something. Our parents, our childhood, our lack of not knowing better, our friends, God, that door for being in the way that just stubbed our toe, etc.
It alleviates the guilt or negative feelings that we fill inside….but deep down we all know that choices, decisions, and reactions are our own.
Many of us prefer to play the victim rather than scatter the broken pieces and discover a new creation.
What good does blaming do? Truthfully, is there a positive outcome to making that choice?
Before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean
Bob Marley
He who has not sinned can cast the first stone
Jesus
I love these quotes, both of these shout LOOK AT YOURSELF. And reminds us that we are flawed just like the rest.
You’re not alone.
My kids are at that delightful age where there’s a fair amount of tattling and a great deal of blaming one another.
“Mom, she made me do it!”
“It’s not my fault, it’s theirs.”
“I only did it because she told me to do that.”
*something doesn’t go their way* – “This is YOUR fault!”
And so forth.
This kind of stuff is expected right now. They are kids!
Although,
I do believe there is importance in teaching children accountability, acknowledgement, and acceptance. As we know, you can’t point the finger forever.
There comes a time when each of us have to look at ourselves, reflect on our own choices and decisions and take accountability for our part. Whatever that may be.
I would say a majority of people don’t enjoy doing this. It isn’t a pleasant process. It’s like holding hands with guilt and shame while walking down an empty road. You don’t want to hold their hands but they know where they are going and you don’t.
This is necessary for our own personal growth. Especially if we have a goal to be our very best selves and want to move forward and make improvements in our life.
There are many grown ups out there who still behave like children and are saying exactly what my kids are saying.
“This is all YOUR Fault!”
And guess what the other grown up is saying,
“No, this is your fault!”
Neither grown up wants to take accountability for their part. How will the issue get resolved if someone doesn’t step up?
Again, because it’s hard. Who wants to admit when they are wrong? Be honest.
Let me share something,
when you begin to take accountability for the directions and outcomes in your life, your life changes. Someone may argue, “but I got dealt a bad hand of cards.”
Maybe that person did. There are many lives out there who have truly been dealt a shitty hand of cards. But there are also lives out there that even with their bad cards they played a heck of a game.
Even in poker you can win a game with a bad hand.
Learning to take accountability and learning to acknowledge what is changes your life, and it changes for the better. In doing so you learn to give yourself grace which leads to giving others grace. You learn to forgive yourself which leads to you forgiving others.
Everyone needs grace and forgiveness. If you can learn to give it to yourself, you can learn to give it to others.
We cling to too many pains and aches from the past. They are like anchors that hold us down from exploring.
And then we blame those pains and aches for the outcome of our lives. When all we have to do is release the anchor so we may set sail. We get frustrated at the knot that we tied.
Living a life of pointing the finger will do nothing but poison you. It poisons you to the core.
And if you keep letting your pointer finger poison you, eventually it paralyzes you.
That is not how you want to live your life. Beautiful things await when we acknowledge ourselves, our situations, our reactions, and recognize that we hold in ourselves more power than we know.
You are powerful. You are strong. You have strength inside of you to get you through what you are going through. It’s nobody’s fault.
Pain in our hearts can lead to bad choices. Think about that, and ponder it.
Let’s practice not pointing the finger together.
peace and love
Do you play in your daily life? What says “playtime” to you?
All the time.
Staying playful is feeling young and nostalgic in so many ways.
There’s a time and place to be a grown up. But I think most days should be filled with “playtime”.
It’s all about being silly, laughing, doing something random where you even make yourself laugh.
If you still don’t know how to bring playtime into your life just watch kids. Watch them intently and observe how they act.
Have you ever done a riddle?
Usually when you find out the answer it’s so completely obvious. You think, “how in the world did I not figure that out”
Incorporating playtime in your life is that simple.
Seems complex, but it’s as simple as an answer to a funny little riddle.
I’ve realized that I don’t enjoy surface level conversation. And what I really mean by that is I don’t enjoy gossiping at all. I don’t like listening to people talk about others in a negative way to others.
I was hanging out with some mom friends that I actually met through my daughters. It’s not like we had bad conversation but it would also be like, “how do you feel about this person?….” Or, “what do you think of this person?”
I just couldn’t engage. I feel like I’ve read enough books where you can’t judge people like that. You never know what an individual has gone through or has experienced. It’s not fair. Where’s the empathy?
During this girl time I felt incredibly reserved and wanted to just blurt out, “is anyone reading anything good right now?” But I just listened and observed and recognized.
The kinds of conversations that I enjoy is talking about history or insane memoirs from people you’ve never heard of. I want to talk about things you’ve learned or an experience that changed your life. I want to engage on how to make this world better not degrading another persons way of handling things.
Tell me something funny that made you laugh! Or something that freaks you out! Or can we talk about how this whole earth experience is crazy in itself. Like, isn’t this all so weird? You know what I mean?
But…..
in order to have these types of conversations one has to give themselves permission to be vulnerable and to have a degree of confidence in themselves I feel.
I have had some amazing conversations with other people that I just can’t believe what they have shared with me. And I feel incredibly honored to make a person feel comfortable enough to sharing intimate details of their life with me.
When we let our guard down we help others to do the same. But some people don’t let their guard down because I believe there’s a level of insecurity or fear.
And that’s okay. With time we all evolve.
Thanks for listening :).
Share something with me if you have a moment! Would love to learn about YOU, My dear reader!
– mg
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I love these ideas! Great to do with your kids!
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, my dear.
Let’s get in the spirit with these fun wallpapers. Just save and enjoy. (It’s the little things)
Xox
What is good about having a pet?
In general pets are good teachers. They teach us about patience, responsibility, discipline, even love.
Pets have a way of providing comfort that a human can’t. When we don’t want the company of other humans pets are there for us. Non-judgmental, eager to be still with us.
We hold them in our hands, on our laps, they rest their head on ours, we rest our head on theirs and no language is spoken. But words do not need to be exchanged, we can feel that presence of companionship, love, healing…
They help us not to feel so lonely, they make us laugh when they do funny/cute things. They let you do silly things to them and they just go with it.
Pets are like angels. They give us much more than we can ever give them.
The Wild Gems 