a cooking pot and twisted tales
Thoughts and Tales…A Lifestyle Blog with a Zing.
Just Go! You’ve got this.
When we lower our standards to trash, we simply succeed in putting ourselves in the trash can. Stand tall
It’s amazing how many people go through life without any personal standards or with standards as fickle as the wind.
They never know where they stand at each point in life and a life of anything goes is what it is…anything goes, that way they don’t even know when nothing is going.
When you keep lowering your standards, you keep going downhill but when you raise them you rise with them.
Be mindful of accepting every nonsense dished out there because of the fear of being politically incorrect or being labeled as a hater.
Not everyone will meet your standards neither will you meet everyone’s standard and that’s absolutely fine.
© Jacqueline
Today, I am going to do something that tomorrow will thank me for.
Have a great day today.
I have learnt that fretting over things that I have no control over is energy expended for nothing. Jacqueline
Have a good day today.
negative thoughts will strive to keep in, but I’ll strive harder to keep them out.
What’re your today’s good vibes?
Today, I’m thankful for a roof over my head and food on my table.
Every new day is a rebirth of you. Be thankful.
Share your good news today.
We’ll be having our monthly blog party this weekend – Saturday 1st – Sunday 2nd July. You are invited.
For sure, achieving success is glamorous but remember that its road is neither shiny nor paved in a hurry.
The want to succeed is often expressed and held in the heart of many, but the need to succeed is expressed by few.
We are all free to want, but our zeal to succeed must be fueled by our driving need. Remember that a need is something that is vital for your survival (such as food and shelter), whereas your want is simply something that you would like to have.
Success takes the whole nine yards and more. Always ask yourself, why do I need to succeed in this? Is it vital to my well-being?
Will failure in this pursuit be detrimental to you or is your wish to do this just one of the notches to add to your list of achievements?
Holding on to that hungry need serves to drive you, that even when you fall down today, you’ll get up tomorrow and keep going.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
I believe in being steadfast in everything that I do, but the past few weeks have challenged my usual enthusiasm that I find myself doing the barest minimum.
It’s been somewhat a bag of mixed blessings, thankful to get up and do the things that need to be done in an automated mode and being thoroughly bored in-between – why I don’t know.
I don’t know whether to blame it on the torrid and melting heat over here, on unresolved problems that tug the edge of my mind or on having to take care of my family members where everyone seems to be sniffling, running temperatures, a bug here and there including myself or is it a combination of all?
There are days like today when I feel totally inundated and I simply want to reach out and chuck everything out of the window, then press the stop sign on the clock just to let life pause while I catch my breath.
I work at taking deep breaths and exhaling through the mouth, repeating it a dozen times, each breath let out to let go of pent-up emotions, anguish, and stress. I recognize that part of my stress is the unrelenting drive to succeed and when it seems that I am slower, I feel guilty for being slow which is absolutely wrong. There are lessons to be learned from being slow.
As I write this post, I take a pencil to my to-do list. I whittle it down to 5 simple things, making a clean slate for today and going slow. It’s a beautiful, blazing hot day today and I am thankful for common sense and to recognize that I’m not a superwoman, that there are days that I’ll be slow.
Today, I will only do 5 things – one of which is this, now it’s only 4 things; cook for my household, read other blogs, format my book, write that freelance post for publishing… already it sounds plenty.
Jacqueline
Sometimes when things don’t go the way we want them, they went the way they were supposed to.
The way forward is to make the best of the way things turn out, not to expend time and energy fighting what we can’t change, but to spend that time and energy finding new ways for things to go because every moment that you spend fighting over the past and how things were are moments lost to creating how things could be.
Jacqueline
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