Lesson 11: The lalst four months have been ROUGH. I was supposed to be walking into 2015 quite differently (or so I thought). My engagement was called off, I was in two car accidents within three weeks of each other, I was turned down for several positions I felt that I was the best candidate for. But through it all, I learned that God's timing is PERFECT. Everything, I've gone through was designed for a specific time and for a specific reason. I'm looking forward to the greater that is in store for me in 2015. Wishing you all a blessed and prosperous New Year!
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Lesson 10: Choose Your Battles Wisely. Every battle isn't worth fighting. Sometimes people just know they can do things to get a reaction out of you. If you do have to go into Battle, choose your weapons/plan of attack wisely. Sometimes you can cause your own defeat because of the choices you make. Sometimes God just needs you to Be still while He does the fighting for you. Learn when you need to fight and when you don't.
Lesson 9: You can't please everybody-you're not a puppet that's on a string for the pleasure of others. You're human, you'll make mistakes. You'll make decisions that even the ones closest to you won't agree with. You won't do everything how someone else would prefer you to do it.And that's ok. If you live your life constantly conforming to everybody else's standards, wants, needs, and desires you'll never know who you truly are. Stop doing everything to make everyone else happy. You'll only end up being unhappy yourself.
Lesson 8: Stop Settling. I gave up on so many goals because I was scared; I didn't think I could accomplish them. "I'll just take the route that I know I will be able to get down the easiest." I wasted so much time in "relationships" I knew were going nowhere. Why? Because I was settling and in the end I was the one who ended up hurt and unhappy with my life. STOP SETTLING AND START LIVING LIFE TO ITS FULLEST POTENTIAL
Lesson 7: Forgive Yourself. So many times we put our focus on forgiving others that we don't see that we need to look in the mirror and forgive ourselves. That bad decision, the missed opportunity, the guilt, the shame...whatever it is FORGIVE YOURSELF!
Lesson 6: You can't just treat the symptoms, you've got to treat the cause of the issue- I always thought if I could stop the tears then I would be better, but what I found was that the tears were just a symptom of all the hurt and pain that I was holding in. Once I found out what was causing the tears, the anger, and all the other symptoms I was finally able to be free! It may take some digging and dealing with some things that you tried to forget but once you deal with the cause your healing will begin to take place
Lesson 5: you've got to get past the past. If you keep looking back, you'll never move forward. If you stay stuck in the past, you'll never make it to the greatness that the future holds. You'll miss the opportunity to develop great relationships and experience the fullness of life. get healing from the hurt, disappointments, unforgiveness, and discouragement of your past
Lesson 4: You made the choice now you have to accept the consequences: I've made some pretty dumb choices in my life and when the end result wasn't how I thought it would be, I found a way to blame everyone and everything else for the choices that I made. But once I learned how to accept responsibility for my actions, even when they were bad, I was able to grow and become a better person so I didn't continue to make the same bad choices.
Lesson 3: You have to love yourself before you can expect someone else to love you: there have been times where I hated who I was. I didn't feel like I was good enough and in turn I allowed other people to treat me as if I wasn't worth a thing. But once I began to love me, I wouldn't allow anyone to treat me any type of way. You set the standard for how people treat you and when you love yourself you won't settle for less!
Lesson 2: There's purpose in your pain...I have had multiple situations occur where I was like "God, why me...why did I have to go through this...why do I keep ending up hurt?" But there's a purpose in EVERYTHING, including the bad things that happen. Instead of focusing on the negative, what you've lost, and being in a "woe is me" state, sit back and reflect and listen to God to understand what He was trying to get you to see
