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Challenges and Fear

As you know, life comes with many challenges, and each challenge presents a varying degree of difficulty. For some an easy challenge may be difficult, and for others a difficult challenge may be easy. It depends on the person. Fear can get in the way sometimes when we want to tackle the challenge but aren’t sure if we can accomplish meeting that challenge. In the end we may not even try. Had we attempted it, we may have found it to be easier to accomplish than we originally thought.

How does one get over that fear of trying it?

  • Practice
  • Talk to someone
  • Gain more knowledge about whatever the challenge is. Do your research.
  • Think about the fear itself. What exactly are you afraid of?

Will it be easy to get over that fear? For some, yes. For others, no. If you don’t want to meet a challenge because you’re not interested in it, that ‘s one thing. But, whatever you do, do not run from a challenge simply because you’re afraid, because then you are stopping yourself from doing something that you might just end up loving and are very good at.

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Rain and Compassion

Without rain/water flowers die. Without compassion/love humans “die”. Love in some form is essential emotionally. Some may say that is not true. But I believe it’s truer than one might think.

Sometimes life throws many mountains at us. Do we stand and look at them then turn away? Or do we latch on to them, climb them, and rejoice when we’ve reached the top?

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Life’s Mountains

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Hey Good Lookin. Where’d You Come From?

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My Hobby

Outside of writing I enjoy working with beads. What are your hobbies?

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I Think I’ll Rest Here

Mom’s desk is just right
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What Motivates You

An author acquaintance of mine on Facebook posted a question. The author’s name is Ivy Logan (She writes excellent books by the way) It read:

“What drives you, what makes you willing to face another day, what keeps you wanting to strive, to achieve new goals and, on the days when you are drained, when you feel nothing is going your way, what motivates you to rise again and to persist?”

I felt this is the perfect question for my blog readers because it makes you stop and think about something that we don’t normally address every day. We get up and move about, doing what we are supposed to do or want to do. I didn’t answer this question on Facebook, but I am going to answer it here, now.

What motivates me is my daughter. She’s not only my child but also my best friend. Without her there would be a gaping hole in my life. So, cheers and hats off to Tatjana. She is truly one of a kind, and I am so proud to have her.

What if what motivates you gets up and walks away? What if it no longer exists? What then? For some this may be as simple as looking to something else that also motivates you. For others it may not be that simple. Maybe what motivates you is something different for different areas of your life. Through all of this there is one constant, and that’s you. You, out of all of your motivators, are the greatest motivator for yourself. Well, God is a given. He motivates me to a huge extent. I may not always listen, but he does.

So, what motivates you?



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Yard Flowers

I love Spring
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Life’s Soccer Field

Life is a soccer field. We have goals to reach. There are ideas we kick around on our run toward our goal. Yes, sometimes we are thwarted by life working against us. We stumble and fall. But then we get back up, work our ideas in a new direction, maneuver around life or do a fake out if need be, then we run head long toward the goal. If someone is there to stop you, try again.

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We Didn’t Do It We Swear