One Day/Step at a Time

One Day/Step at a Time

You do not always have to know when you are going to get to your goal, or how you are going to get to your goal, but you do need to take the next step.

~Peggy McColl

This is an awesome quote. One I need right about now. Sometimes I feel like I am dead in the water. It has been 3 weeks today since I had my spinal neck surgery. 10 days since I came down with the stomach flu which set the neck thing back a ways in the healing process. Now my face is swelling up like the Pillsbury Dough Boy and I have no clue why. It is almost getting comical except for the fact that I want to get better and get on with my life and my goals. I know God is in control and He has a purpose in all this but I sure don’t have a clue what or why. I just press forward one day, one step at a time.

Sitting in the waiting room while Dennis got his eyes examined this afternoon and was reading a book my friend gave me for Christmas. God Never Blinks by Regina Brett. 50 Lessons for Life’s Little Detours. The chapter I was reading was You Can Get Through Anything Life Hands You if You Stay Put in the Day You Are in and Don’t Jump Ahead. The author was describing a time when she had cancer and struggled on a daily basis. But she realized that all she had to do was get through the day she was in. The past was done and the future was just that “the future”. She says “The only way through it all was to stop dwelling on what yesterday brought (good or bad) and what tomorrow might bring (good or bad). The only day worth living was the one I was in. Those 24 hours were do-able as long as I didn’t drag the past and future into them.”

She said it took discipline to put on blinders and not look back or forwards. As long as she held to that plan she did ok. As long as she focused on the moment at hand life was do-able.

This was just the advice I needed to hear today. I have been discouraged because I am not getting better any quicker. I have been discouraged that it is day 10 of the year and my goals are just sitting there. Most days I haven’t even been able to blog or read anything meaningful. I, so want to work on our Empower Network business and just can’t get it out of neutral. But, the bottom line is all I have to do is worry about today. This 24 hours. Tomorrow will come soon and those 24 hours will be do-able too.

As my mama used to say “One day at a time, sweet Jesus”.

Have a wonderful 24 hours,
Charyl aka mom8isme

PASSION Step One

Renew the Passion

"This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change."

Taylor Swift

 

"Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page."
- Henry Ward Beecher

Well, I am on a MISSION!!  I decided that I need passion in my life.  I am definitely in need of passion.  I have been flat lined for way to long.  I have not had a reason to get up in the morning or a reason to stay up late in the evening.  If my life was a color it would be an ugly shade of grey.  I want something pretty. I want my life to be colorful and beautiful, not drab and uninviting.  I want to be passionate and fired up for both Jesus, and for Dennis’s and my new venture, Empower Network.  I want to be so excited that I stay up late and get up early just to study and learn more.  I want my life to be something that other people want.  Right now I am sure people would look and say – ok, but no thank you.  I can be miserable without what you have.

 

So, in studying how to develop passion I found out that passion is like a muscle, it grows and develops when it is used and pushed just that little bit outside of its comfort zone.  If a muscle is not used then it atrophies, meaning that it wastes away.  Passion is no different; if you don’t experience it for a while then it will be harder and harder to access it in the future.

 

I am so far removed from passion that my passion muscle is barely hanging on.  I am sure it is there, but it has dwindled down to almost nothing.  So, how do I get it back functioning?  Well, I have to get my passion muscle out and start giving it a work out.  Kind of like physical fitness.  If you are a couch potato and totally out of shape, in order to get back in shape you have to start small and rebuild you muscles a bit at a time.  You go to the gym every day and work bit by bit and one day you realize you aren’t the couch potato you used to be.  So, that is what I need to do with my passion muscle.

 

I have always heard “Fake it until you make it”.  So, that is exactly what I am going to do.  I am going to start this journey by pretending to be excited, fired up and passionate.  I read that the more you pretend the more you are likely to be able to actually feel it.  I am going to work that muscle by pretending until one day I wake up and realize that I am no longer pretending.  And realize that I am totally, for real, fired up and passionate and sold out for both Jesus and Empower Network.  Can’t wait!!!!

 

So, until next time I am going to be working on step one of my Passion Plan.  Pretend until it becomes real.

 

I am so excited!  I have a plan!!!

 

Have a fantastic day and work your Passion Muscle,

Charyl aka mom8isme

Sold Out in 2013

Sold Out in 2013

If you aren't fired up with enthusiasm, you'll be fired with enthusiasm.

Vincent Lombardi

Welcome to 2013. The beginning of a new year and a new page of my life. Actually I was going to write this yesterday but I was side tracked by a wonderful case of the stomach flu. And having just recently had spinal neck surgery, it has proved to be interesting.

Anyways, what I was going to say is that I had 2 things really hit me yesterday and the night before. On New Year’s Eve Dennis and I were listening to an Empower Network call. Dave & Dave were thinking back to the beginning of Empower Network. They were talking about the founding of Empower Network in a hotel room and how they were so excited they couldn’t stop talking about it and telling everyone they knew about it. It hit me that I didn’t have that kind of passion. Why wasn’t I that excited? Why wasn’t I “Fired Up” like Sam Crowley says. Hmmmm, no answer.

Then yesterday morning in my Scripture reading I was reading Romans 1 about Paul. Paul was drafted, so to speak, into service for Jesus. BUT Paul was also sold out for Jesus. No one had to prod him on. No one had to motive him to tell others about Jesus. He was on fire. He was passionate. Am I sold out for Jesus? I should be. Jesus gave his all for me and I can’t even get excited enough to tell others? There’s a problem here.

So, I started to notice a pattern. A lack of passion trend. I am 63 years old and I have lacked passion in my life for as long as I can remember. I can’t remember being on fire, sold out for anything. I have taken the easy path all my life. I have allowed things to happen by default. I had plenty of time yesterday to explore my life. I wanted to find a bleep of life somewhere along the line but I couldn’t. Definite character flaw that needs mending. I want to be on fire, passionate, sold out!!! If I am going to have anything to show at the end of my journey here on earth, I had better get off this flat line status.

Yes, I wrote my Goals for 2013, just like I do every year. But I realized that unless I am sold out to them, they are no better than words on a piece of paper. Lose weight – same goal, different year. I realized that if I had ever been on fire, sold out about it, I would have already accomplished it. No problem, hands down. Same with all my other goals. Without passion, the goals are no better than wishes or dreams. Chance of accomplishing them are nil.

So, my #1 goal/plan, whatever you want to call it is to develop passion. Get fired up! Become sold out!! BECAUSE until that happens, I am dead in the water. Not sure how this is going to be accomplished, but I will keep you posted.

So, hear’s to being Sold Out in ’13. I am on a MISSION!!!

Until next time,
Have a wonderful fired up day,
Charyl aka mom8isme