Labels Itch...Rip Them Off!

The dangers in accepting a label as truth is that it can shut down your potential for growth. 


Well it's pretty obvious what I am going to be discussing, but I am going to delve into both sides of this. The labeler and the labeled.

     Now the labeled, the affected, can choose not to be. If you read the blog often you know how I feel about choices. You cannot control what people say or do to you, or what life throws at you. However you can control how you respond to it all. No, I am not saying it is easy, but one thing you can control in life is your attitude, and your drive. If these things are in order, your choices will line up. Labels were put in place to limit those defined by them. The labeled are pigeonholed into a certain category in efforts to keep them from growing. Now, though labels can be positive as well as negative, they are still a constriction. There is always more. You don't stop growing until you stop making an effort to do so. The effort itself is growth. Do not let anyone tell you who or what you are unless you are willing to accept that as truth and stay stagnant in that place. I personally hate labels. I don't like them on my t-shirts, pillows, dishes, and certainly not on me as an individual, so I rip them off. Do not let others constricted perceptions to define you because your growth will also be constricted.
     Now for the labelers. It is  human nature to label things, not people. When we see someone and feel the need to define them with what they appear to be it is because there is something within ourselves that we need to check. If you cannot encounter others and not immediately categorize them you need to take the window you look at others through, toss it out, and find a mirror asap. The only person you should have a desire to define is yourself. Find out who YOU are, and it wont matter who or what someone else is. When you judge another you do not define them, you define yourself - Wayne Dyer.

Think about it!

Remember...YOU be Your biggest fan!
Now get out there and make it happen captain!

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Because you choose to be!

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
- Thich Nhat Hanh



    Lately I have been paying attention to my circumstances in relation to my mood. I am always smiling, but that doesn't mean I'm not going through. I have realized that I am at a point in my life that my happiness, much like my love, and motivation, is not circumstantial. I chose to smile regardless, and I find happiness in my ability to smile in spite of. So whether or not I am going through something crappy, our I am on cloud nine I have joy. 
     Often times we wear or circumstances. If your heart is broken your face is. If you're struggling you look distressed. If you are angry, you look like the grouch. SMILE FOR PETE'S SAKE! Honestly, if you can muster up a genuine smile you will feel happier! Instead of harping on the bad and honing in on what ever it is that ails you, focus on everything going on in your life that doesn't suck. There is something trust me, you are alive aren't you? Remember it could always be worse, and if you think it can't, it can only get better! 
     If your smile can improve someone else's mood why cant it improve yours? I firmly believe that your happiness does NOT have to be circumstantial. Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.- John Lennon. That said, why in the world would you let circumstances, i.e. LIFE, which is capricious at best, be the foundation on which you build your mood? 
   The only thing you can control in life is you. Your kids will rebel, your relationship may not be perfect, your job's main requirement is to be flexible and adaptable, but you, you can control how you feel in the midst of all of these things. Do it! Be conscious of your expressions and your feelings and  change it! I have used this quote before, but, “If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.”- Maya Angelou.


Be HAPPY because you CHOOSE to be!

Think about it!

Remember...YOU be Your biggest fan!
Now get out there and make it happen captain!

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