The Obstacles of Life

 

   Hello everyone! It is the weekend at last! I hope you all had an inspiring week and are ready to get   ready for the week to come! The other day I was thinking about what I wanted to write for this week's blog. I began to think about how hard it can be to become INSPIRED for our upcoming week if we are staring at a huge OBSTACLE in our path.

    First of all, life gets MESSY and CHALLENGING. Sometimes, inspiration and motivation will not come easily. Sometimes it will seem impossible to see the light at the end of the tunnel because there is a huge mountain of an obstacle blocking the path.

    While we can't always help the obstacles that come our way; we can choose how we VIEW our obstacles.

How do YOU view obstacles?

*As a burden?

*Annoying?

*The obnoxious fly, buzzing around your head, that just wont go away?

    Or perhaps all of the above. But WHAT IF we could view our obstacles like a test? Or to know that a greater reward was behind the obstacle? That would make that obstacle look possible NOT impossible.

 

    Whatever higher power you believe in whether it be religious, spiritual, Jesus or the universe, this power is constantly working in your life. Your higher power is always lining things up for you and making things happen. You have to know, that your higher power would never put anything in your path that you couldn't handle. But instead sometimes things are put in our path to TEST our strength and our PERSEVERANCE.

    Joel Osteen says, "Extraordinary people will face extraordinary obstacles". This is because our higher power knows what we can handle and also knows the plans in our future. Since we are destined for greatness and we're created to do powerful things, nothing in life is simply going to come easy. 

    For example, look at all the great and influential people from history. In any book, documentary or movie about them did it say, "...and everything was so easy and happened in the blink of an eye. The End." Um, NO! Each has a story of obstacles, problems, challenges and major events they had to overcome. But would they be great if they hadn't faced that? They wouldn't.

    So when an obstacle comes your way, we need to develop a new mentality. We should think to ourselves, "Wow, something big is waiting for me at the other side of this obstacle. I know I can do this because my higher power KNOWS I can do this. This was put in my path on PURPOSE not by chance." If we said this to ourselves, no obstacle would ever overcome us; we would always overcome the obstacle.

    After you overcome that obstacle something incredible will be waiting for you. You just have to work hard to GET to that point and see. Whenever you feel discouraged, pick up a book or Google one of your idols or one of the many greats of the past. Read their story; look at the struggles they overcame and the rewards that were waiting for them.

    For example, I always envision this. I think about my E! True Hollywood Story that I know I will have one day. Whenever life is getting me down or I feel like some of my obstacles are impossible, I simply think of my upcoming segment on E!. I will simply say to myself that this will make my E! True Hollywood Story better and will make it that much more interesting. Who would want a BORING E! True Hollywood Story? I want one full of triumph and victory. And those triumphs come from obstacles you face and things you have had to overcome in life.

    So go out this week with a new and fresh perspective. Whatever obstacle you are facing right now, think how you can overcome it. With every mountain standing in your way, think about what is on the other side. Whenever you feel doubt about your ability to overcome, rest assured that your higher power will always believe in you and knows you can do it. But most important of all, always believe in yourself and the destiny that you are meant to fulfill.

Have a great week!

~Ava

Quote of the day:

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome."

-Booker T. Washington

The Fire Within

 

   Hello all! Hope everyone is having a great start to the week! Sometimes I just get so fired up about a topic it simply cannot wait till the weekend, I just have to write it now. This is why I love writing so much because no one has to motivate me to do this. It is a fire that burns within me and compels me every day to write and think deeply about the many wonders of life. And that is exactly what I want to talk about today, the fire that burns within each and every one of us.

 

   First things first, WHAT IS YOUR PASSION? People ask and reply to this question all the time. Replies vary from dancing or reading or maybe cooking. But I'm serious, really, dig down deep inside and search for that PASSION that drives you in life. If you find something that you think is your passion in life but people have to motivate you to do it or maybe you have to drag yourself to accomplish a task then guess what...THAT IS SO NOT YOUR PASSION.

 

   Your passion will be like a RAGING fire within you. It will be something that you can't ignore or that you can put to the side because it is the very essence of you. Find that passion and most importantly GO for it. Don't just let it rage on within you and have you day dreaming all day. You have got to put it into action and make that passion and those dreams a reality.  

 

   Now that we have our passion in mind and we are very tapped into that raging fire within let's move on to something else. What will accompany this passion is your POTENTIAL. The insurmountable potential that lies within you. Sometimes we will have these big dreams and this raging fire that is just yearning to burst out of you, but we don't realize our potential. Or for that matter even recognize that there is any potential within us.

 

   But trust me; we all have potential lingering within us right along with that raging passion. For example. We all know what it feels like to be envious at times. Sometimes we envy other's success or maybe possessions they have. I feel like one cause for feeling envy over someone else is that you see a potential that lies within yourself but you aren't utilizing it. 

 

  Let's say you love to cook and aspire to be a chef. Although you have this big dream, you feel you are too shy and could never have your own cooking show. Then one day, your close friend, who also aspires to be a chef, gets a cooking show on Food Network. You then feel very envious of her and this opportunity she has. BUT WHY? It's because the potential she is exhibiting is the very same potential that lies within you; you are just choosing to ignore it.

 

   If you had another close friend that became the master champion of riding a unicycle and got into the Guinness Book Of World Records, would you be envious? Unless you have a hidden passion for riding a unicycle then most likely NOT. Sometimes we feel emotion, that we call envy, because it's as if we are staring at a version of ourselves that we long to be.

 

   I was talking with my mom the other day and we were talking about potential. We were talking about when you highlight something in a book, a quote or sentence that really spoke to you, that the reason you did so is because it is something pulling you from within. It's not that you have never seen a quote like that or it is totally new to you, it's your inner passions, potential and higher self speaking out an acknowledging something you already know.

 

   Generally, this freaks people out though. To think they have this higher self about them and that they could actually have all of these talents stewing inside of them. So we turn on the noise of life. Cell phones, TV, Radio or senseless magazines.

 

   But in order to really unlock that inner potential and that passion just blazing inside of you, you need to STOP and LISTEN. When you see a quote that really speaks to you, analyze why that is. When you feel envious of someone, think what potential that person is exhibiting that you know you have. And when you feel the urge to go for a dream, DO NOT let yourself second guess yourself. Because that's your passion, potential and fire just begging to break free and show the light of your potential.

 

   Once you let that potential, passion, success, fire and talent out of the box, your life will never be the same. You will feel no envy of others success because you will be living your passion and making your way to the top. I know the world we live in doesn't always foster quiet time and time to look within and search your soul. But you must CREATE it. After all, your divine path lies within you, but you have to be the one to make the first step.

 

Have a great week!

~Ava

Quote of the day:

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

-Marianne Williamson

 

 

 

 

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Our world of YES!

 

   Good Morning everyone! I hope everyone had a fabulous week and I am sure you all are ready to enjoy the weekend. So what better way to start the weekend then with a great blog post? :) Today I want to talk about how our world of YES sometimes become a world of NO.

 

   When you were a child, what did you want to be? What dreams did you have? And typically weren't those dreams encouraged? All I know is that I wanted to be a lawyer, a rock star and a 1st grade teacher all at one time. I would constantly come to my mom with a new occupation I wanted to have or a dream I want to achieve. She would always smile and say, "I know you can do it" or "Absolutely let's make it happen".

 

   No where did she say, "That's impossible" or "How unreasonable you can't do all those things at once". It was always just about dreaming and thinking about the next great thing I wanted to do. So what happens? How does that world of YES YES YES become a world of NO and DISBELIEF and IMPOSSIBLE dreams?

 

   It is seemingly so that it is a lot of society and our peers that fill our minds with no and thoughts of not being able to achieve something. I know as we grow older we become more level headed and see the world differently, but I don't think we should view the world as a "no" type of place. Or even a place where dreams only come true for SOME people but not ALL people.

 

   Kind of like in Yes Man with Jim Carrey. I know that the movie was a bit extreme and was really funny but it had such a good message. That to live your life for an amount of time just saying yes and trying new things. Yes to new experience, Yes to new friends and Yes to the dreams that go around in our head constantly.

 

   Because if you think about it, it's not only society or our peers that talk down our dreams. Most of the time it is ourselves. We can be our own worst critics sometimes. How many times do we have a thought and want to try something or do something and we eventually talk our way out of it?

 A lot right?

We will come up with a lot of excuses: I'm not smart enough, people will be better than me, someone may laugh at me, I could look silly. And the list could go on and on.

 

   But what if changed that negative reel tape in our head to a positive one. That when we saw an opportunity or perhaps a dream that we have thought of we thought: YES I can do that, YES I have something special to offer, YES I can do remarkable things in my life. But it's all about what reel tape you choose to put in the player; what you are choosing to listen to.

 

   The reality is that the world will always try and tell you no. It will try and show you the impossibilities of life and your dreams. But you need to make the choice to NOT listen and to keep going. You can almost take that disbelief being said as fuel. You can take that negative and make it a positive.

 

   In life someone is ALWAYS going to do something differently than you. And that difference could make them do something really good or maybe not as good. You can't change other people but you can focus on yourself. You can't change how well someone else does something but you can recognize how well you do things and how unique you are.

 

   It's important to never compare ourselves to others. Because if you think about it it's not an even playing field or a fair comparison. Why? Because we are ALL unique and have special talents and gifts to give to the world. We should acknowledge other peoples talents but it is very important to acknowledge your OWN talents.

 

   Sometimes I like to say there will always be shrubs standing next to large trees, but don't let those shrubs try and talk you down from being that tall tree. In reality I'm sure that that shrub has some great qualities and that tree has great qualities and both are different and special in their own way. But not to get too in depth with my nature analogy.

 

   I think the biggest take away in life is knowing who you are, living your dreams and recognizing all the wonderful things that only YOU can do. Because in the end you are the ONLY one that can be YOU. So if you think you don't have something to offer, you definitely have one, you are you and no one else can be that.

 

   Everyday we should be thinking, how am I going in the directions of my dreams? What have I done to fulfill my destiny today? Am I still standing tall or am I being talked down by some shrubs? The more we think this, the more we will discover about ourselves and realize our full potential.

 

   So go out this week and live a week of YES and ENCOURAGEMENT. If you have NO thoughts or hear others say NO just take that tape out and replace it with a new positive one in your head. And to know that you can do anything in this world if you set your mind to it, work hard and most importantly believe in yourself and your dreams.

 

Have a great week,

~Ava

 

Quote of the day:

"The strongest force in the universe is a human being living consistently with his identity."

  ~Tony Robbins