Category: Potential and Worth
Postage from my Memory
War Zone Quote: Remove Toxicity from your Interactions
Sometimes you can see someone’s intentions or motives from one conversation—perhaps in the way they talk to you, the way they phrase their sentences and how much effort they put in having the conversation—or in the way they look at you and how much of themselves they choose to put into their comments, criticisms, and advice. What’s scary, especially with strangers and even people you’ve known for a long time, is the malice that’s behind the words of those people. One phrase can make you feel worthless, some criticisms offend who you are and what you like to do, and suggestions turn into demands to change who you are to fit who they want you to be. Whatever the circumstance, whatever the situation know how to identify genuineness and when someone has an agenda. You deserve to have genuine friendships or any type of relationships. You deserve to be able to freely make connections with people without the fear of ill intention or harm to your mental health. Don’t stick around if you see this type of verbal and emotional abuse. Leave, just leave. You are worth more than that. You are in control of those situations and interactions.
War Zone Quote: Remove Toxicity from your Interactions
Enough
Enough.
One word that has the power to halt the existence of things that don’t need to exist. Things that hurt, things that bother, things that harm, and things that blind. Things that need to be extinct. Extinct in the ways that make you hate.
Enough of the drowning, and enough of the hopelessness. Enough of the self-harm and the self-hate. Enough of the vices, and the things that you surround yourself with that aren’t helping. Enough of the pain. The pain that is so comfortable, making itself at home. Ingrained in the way you think and interact. Enough. Enough of the toxicity in your life. The people. The places. The ideas. Let go of those things that are killing you from the inside.
You don’t need a new year to start or an occasion to do something different. You don’t need someone to tell you to stop.
Enough.
Enough of postponing yourself for the betterment and comfort of someone else.
Today, right now. Make something change. The way you see yourself, the way you handle situations that are not productive.
In one moment you can say enough and in that moment you’ve set yourself loose. You’re starting again from the point where pain started taking over.
Enough.
You did it.
Freedom Quote: You are More
You are everything that is great and growing. Don’t underestimate your growth and progress. You are in the right rhythm of your own experiences and what you need to grow through.
Stop worrying and doubting your own life.
31 Women Stated Why They are Beautiful and Why They Love Themselves
- I love myself because I’m resilient and powerful.
- I am beautiful because I am not afraid to fail.
- I’m beautiful because I’m not afraid to take strategic risks.
- I love me because I’m smart.
- I love myself because I can see the optimism in everything.
- I am beautiful because I am not ashamed of my natural hair. I wear my hair as my crown. I am a queen!
- I am beautiful because I am strong.
- I am beautiful because my whip game is fire!!!
- I am beautiful because of my personality.
- I love myself because I make my own happiness.
- I love me because God made me.
- I love me because I’m flawless.
- I love me because I am determined to achieve my highest goals.
- I am beautiful because I am loved by God.
- I am beautiful because there is no one else like me.
- I AM beautiful because I BELIEVE I am.
- I work my butt off for everything I love!
- I love me because it took a long time and a lot of effort for me to get to a place where I understood that I am exactly who I’m supposed to be for the purpose that is in me.
- I am beautiful because of my kind heart.
- I am beautiful because God made me this way.
- I am beautiful because I am happy.
- I am beautiful because He made me unique and gave me ministries to help me set the bond free.
- I am beautiful because I won’t let me age- 50+ gasp!- dictate what I can do or how I can behave or what I can be interested in.
- I am beautiful because beauty is subjective do why not.
- I love my face, my hair, my personality, my vibe, my swag, my me. I mean why wouldn’t I love me! I’m me!
- I love me because God is transforming me into a woman of importance, passion, and value.
- I am beautiful because I am a mom.
- I am beautiful because I love my flaws.
- I am beautiful because I know my worth.
- I am beautiful because life is too short to think otherwise!
- I love myself because there’s only one me, just like there’s one you. We are all unique.
— Sheila Murray Bethel
Sheila Murray Bethel: Courage is…
Why is Why Important [11/23/15]
About 5 days ago I laid in my bed after a long and tiring day. As I laid in bed I struggled to see the reasons why I’m in school. You know, like those moments where you ask yourself why. The why for me in that moment came down like a ton of bricks. I felt like I wasn’t good enough to be where I am in life, in school. I started doubting myself and asking questions about whether I’m doing as good as I thought in my classes. I just felt horrible and I didn’t know why the doubt and confusion struck me so hard. It was hard to tell myself, Nina its okay! You’re doing your best and that’s all you can give.
Now that I reflect on that moment, on a time that I felt worthless, powerless, and doubted my potential, I see that where I am in life itself represents what I can do and where I can go if I work on myself along with taking opportunities that can help me reach where I want to go in my future.
Although the why’s that pop up randomly sometimes make us think critically about our current position, where we are, and if we are actually making progress toward our true potential, they help us to see that we are going somewhere! Going somewhere, whether it’s small, whether it’s moving toward saying I’m okay today, I appreciate myself today, I’m beautiful today, I made it through work today, I can today is meaningful progress. Those why’s can be so blurry, but when they become clearer so does realizing your path and potential.
Stay positive and keep going!
Ted Talk: Roxane Gay on Feminism
I’m not saying that you have to be a feminist to show your true potential, nor do you have to agree with everything Roxane Gay has to say, but she does a brilliant job at showing her views! She’s says she’s a “bad feminist,” but she is beautiful and amazing at realizing and showing her potential through her views on women and ways in which she sees the world through her eyes.
Potential revealed through words and perspective.
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