a cooking pot and twisted tales
Thoughts and Tales…A Lifestyle Blog with a Zing.
Fate hands us many burdens.
It’s how we carry on with them
that makes or breaks us.
You make your burden light,
or you make it heavier than necessary
your fate lies with you.
©
Jacqueline
Ronovan writes weekly haiku challenge ‘fate & make.’
Please, do check out my new book ‘Unbridled,’ now available on Amazon. Your reviews will be most appreciated.
Don’t go chasing to harvest happiness from afar when you haven’t even bothered to plant and water it where you are. Jacqueline
Your happiness is always where you kept it. It’s not acquired through materialism and it’s not what happens to you.
It may be absent on some days when the going is rough, but always know that it’s there in the midst of chaos, pain, sadness, failure, success, peace and all the ups and downs of life.
We harp so much on happiness that sometimes this sells the idea that we have to be in a euphoric state, floating and gliding through life that those who don’t feel that way are left wondering if something is wrong and a cycle to buy happiness commences which only leaves the purchaser shortchanged.
Accepting that it’s okay to be just okay is a key to contentment.
Growing your happiness will never be a destination that you get to and all of a sudden everything is just as perfect as you want it, but a mindset that you build from within and know that despite every situation you will remain in charge of your state of being.
Jacqueline
Please, do check out my new book ‘Unbridled,’ now available on Amazon. Your reviews will be most appreciated.
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Today, my hands are blessed, and so are yours.
Never stop telling your stories.
Even if your ears
are the only ones
to hear them.
©
Jacqueline
You truly can’t afford the cost of staying at the bottom. That space is overcrowded. Crawl, climb, jump, keep moving in any way that you can, but just get out of there.
The problem with staying stuck at the bottom of the barrel is that there are far too many enablers who are willing to keep you company and even provide some background music to your whining.
If you want to change your direction and growth, you have to lead yourself out of that confined space. It may mean losing your backup singers but know that the orchestra sounds better the higher you go.
Saying that our destiny lies in our hands may be clichéd but nonetheless true.
Lots of times, the odds would be stacked heavily against us at the bottom, however, we mustn’t keep our eyes on the stumbling blocks in our path, but on our aspired destination and keep pushing.
An inspiring post ‘subscribe to your successful self’ from Lady Cee is a great read that buttresses these points.
Jacqueline
Today, learn from yesterday’s mistakes but don’t let yesterday steal today’s peace – Jacqueline
Let’s build pretty little bridges to close the gaps between us.
‘cos our art is an international language that bridges universal gaps
Most times,
the chains that bind us
are tethered to our minds;
and only us
can
break
them.
©
Jacqueline
Most times, circumstances may cause us to lose joy, but each day we must make concerted effort to find reasons for laughter.
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