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We are not victims. We are not powerless. We are not products of our environment destined for failure because that’s all we’ve been surrounded by and all we see. We are children of God with the ability to reach the highest levels even when we’ve come from the worst circumstances.
When you hear someone say they didn’t have a chance. When you hear someone say they are who they are because of how and where they grew up. When you hear someone shrug off their failures, their behavior, their inadequacies because they are nothing more than a product of their environment. Pause, and then scream in their face as loud as you can. Scream in their face with spit flying from your mouth for effect. Scream in their face until you know they are listening, and then tell them the TRUTH!! You are not a product of your environment, you are a product of your excuses.
Failure starts with an excuse because it allows us fall short without taking any responsibility for the outcome. Excuses allow us to cop-out; to quit without trying. Excuses give us the ability to accept our failure. People who refuse to make excuses don’t fail because they can never wrap their mind around accepting, that they, a child of God is incapable of accomplishing something that God gave them the ability to do. People who don’t make excuses don’t fail because they refuse to quit trying until they succeed or they die.. and if they die first they didn’t fail, they just ran out of time.
The choice is simple, quit making excuses and focus on making moves or move out of the way for the people that don’t have time to make excuses. — http://www.seanking.net
Necessary
It caught me fast
when I wasn’t looking
Wasn’t your success
aspirations
or your fancy cooking
Wasn’t your earrings
shoe game
or any other accessory
It was when I got a look at
who you are on the inside
that I realized
Spending my life with you
Was absolutely necessary..
Forward Ever, Backwards Never
Even if you could go in reverse
Even if you could traverse the path you have previously traveled
With each and every step backwards being in sync with every forward step you ever took
Even if you could go back to that exact place
To that exact moment
You will realize when you get back to the place you once were
Everything will be different
In essence, there is no going back
Because while you were moving backwards
The whole world was moving forward
When you return to whence you came
You will only be behind
But never in the same place
My point is, while we reminisce over the good old days, ponder over lost opportunities and bad decisions, try to hold on to the memories of our ascended loved ones or our unforgettable moments, we need to maintain a constant awareness that life is intended to be lived moving forward.
It’s good to love who you were, but wouldn’t it be so much better if you loved who you are? Make it happen!!
