Truthful Tuesdays: Choices
“It is easy to build a barbed wire fence around your heart and vow never to love again or allow anyone to love you; but this false sense of protection is really a trap, limiting the quality of your life.”
There are always two choice we can make in life (1) Give it a try or (2) give up. To try means to move forward (regardless of how small the step) in pursuit of your dreams, goals, desires in order to have a very particular life experience. Trying means pushing through the discomfort, frustration, anger, and/or self-doubt yet being gentle and loving towards self through the entire process. To try means to not allow another to place their limitation onto you, instead you determine what you can and cannot do.
To give up is the easiest of the two options. It is easy to slide into a dark 'emotional hole' and cut yourself off from the world. It is easy to build a barbed wire fence around your heart and vow never to love again or allow anyone to love you. It is easy to accept the limiting, life taking, constricting views of others and give up. It is easy to eat fast food, sit on the sofa and fill your mind and body with cheap junk. It is easy to blame others than take responsibility. It is easy to point out the limitations of others instead of doing your own work. All of these are examples of giving up.
Today on this truthful Tuesday I implore you to take an assessment of your life and identify where you are 'giving it a try' and the areas where you are or have 'given up.' If there are areas where you have given up, revisit these areas and give it a try again. If you need help, seek it out. - Misha Granado
Truthful Tuesdays: Shift Your Pespective
At any moment you can change the trajectory of your life by shifting your thoughts. Your reality begins in your mind and determines the way you see and interface with life, love and others. Today, I implore you to begin to look at things differently. What is the silver lining? How can this unexpected event, situation, etc. serve as a catalyst for something albeit unplanned, but amazing? What would happen if you began to view life filled with opportunities instead of obstacles? Take the first step and shift your thoughts. © - Misha N. Granado
Truthful Tuesdays: Vulnerability
Vulnerable is defined as ‘capable of being hurt or injured.’
No one wants to get hurt, especially emotionally; therefore it is logical why many people hold back in attempts to avoid it. Although holding back protects you it also limits you from experiencing life and love fully. Many were not taught how or the power in being vulnerable, therefore in the beginning vulnerability can feel quite uncomfortable for both because we rarely enter or experience this space.
The fullness of and transformative power of love is only experienced through being vulnerable; to show up and live in your relationships as your authentic self always. Being vulnerable also requires you to trust yourself, to trust in your ability to know when and how to be vulnerable. Each time you choose to be vulnerable in your love space this action is a big ‘F**k You’ to fear because you are saying, I choose love. The goal is to choose love every time. – Misha N. Granado