Lola wants to get better

24/03/2024

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24/03/2024

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Morning Mantra: “Big journeys begin with small steps.”

Change is hard. Change is uncomfortable. The uncertainty makes it even more difficult. But staying where you are can be worse.
Get comfortable being uncomfortable.
Get confident being uncertain.

You should not give up just because something is hard, pushing through challenges is what makes you grow. It gives you strength to keep pushing through. It’s what makes it worth it.
Just remember, never give up on what sets your heart on fire.

04/03/2024

Morning Mantra: “Be picky about the energy you surround yourself with, you’re worth it.”

Some people will improve your life by being in it. Other people will improve your life by staying out.

It’s up to you to protect your energy and surround yourself with people that lift you up, that bring out the best in you, that will be honest with their feelings and intentions.

Surround yourself with people whose energy inspires you, people who challenge you to grow, and that are right there cheering you on.

You can’t enjoy your life if you surround yourself with negative energy that brings you down. There’s no room for drama, hate, bitterness, and jealousy.

Your environment (and who is in it) influences your experiences, make it a positive one.

02/03/2024

Morning Mantra: “Blowing out someone else’s candle won’t make yours shine any brighter.”

You never look good trying to make someone else look bad. Especially now, with life for most being tough enough already.

Thanks to social media it’s easier now than ever to try and outshine someone, but that doesn’t mean you should. Pointing out someone’s flaws, mistakes, or trying to one-up them makes YOU look judgey and like you think you are better than them.

When someone does this, they are actually revealing their own feelings of being less than. And the funny thing is, it actually makes them feel worse.

Making someone feel good will help you feel good. Making someone feel loved, heard, and understood is the best way to change how you feel. You shine when you help them shine.

Lord knows, we need all the brightness we can muster in today’s world.

25/02/2024

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Morning Mantra: "Knowing when to walk away is wisdom. Being able to do it is courage."

There are times when walking away will do your life good.

Walk away from arguments that lead you to nowhere.

Walk away from people who deliberately put you down.

Walk away from trying to please people who never see your worth.

Walk away from thoughts that undermine your peace of mind.

Walk away from your mistakes and fears.

Walk away because you deserve peace.

12/02/2024

Morning Mantra: “Life doesn’t always give you what you want, it gives you what you need.”

Sometimes you get what you want. Other times, you get a lesson in
Patience,
Timing,
Alignment,
Empathy,
Compassion,
Faith,
Perseverance,
Resilience,
Humility,
Trust,
Meaning,
Awareness,
Resistance,
Purpose,
Clarity,
Grief,
Beauty,
and Life.
Either way, you win.


Image: Jessie Zarudski

09/02/2024

Morning Mantra: “You will never truly understand something unless it happens to you.”

To truly understand what someone is experiencing you must have experienced it yourself. You can try to understand, you can have compassion for them, but true understanding requires you to stand in their shoes of experience. To know what they know. To have seen what they have seen. To experience the emotions they feel.

You can have an understanding rooted in an appreciation of other human beings as real people who also suffer. You can “put” yourself in their shoes and have a desire to want to help. But because you’ve never experienced it you will still judge their response to the situation, and to your help.

A real understanding is rooted in knowing what it’s like TO BE in their shoes. It’s an understanding void of judgement.
For example, you can see someone experiencing a loss and want to help, to get them feeling better again. That has ego involved because if they feel better YOU will also feel better.

When you KNOW what it’s like to experience the same loss, then you TRULY understand. Your perspective changes. You know if there is anything that WILL help, you KNOW what you need to do or not do based on an deep understanding. Your feelings are void of ego judgements.

06/02/2024

Morning Mantra: “Instead of saying you HAVE to, start saying you GET and see how it changes your day.”

Instead of I HAVE to exercise, say I GET to. So many people are unable.

Instead of saying I HAVE to go to work, say I GET to. So many people can’t find work.

Instead of saying I HAVE to go see my family, say I GET to. So many people don’t have one.

Instead of saying I HAVE to feed my animals, say I GET to. Someone’s pet just passed.

Instead of saying I HAVE to fix dinner, say I GET to. So many don’t have enough food.

Instead of saying I HAVE to clean my house, say I GET to. So many are unhoused.

Getting to do something reflects gratitude. Gratitude changes everything. Your mood, your perspective, your life.

05/02/2024

Morning Mantra: “Don’t ever let someone change who you are to become what they need.”

Changing for someone and growing with someone are two different things. When you grow with someone you love who you are becoming. When you change for someone, you lose who you are.

If you lose who you are they are not really loving the real you, they are loving a version of you that is not sustainable. Be yourself and the right people will find you, accept you, and make you want to be the best version of yourself.

If you have to start compromising yourself, your beliefs, and your morals to be around certain people, it might be time to change the people you are around.

27/01/2024

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Morning Mantra: “A real friend walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. I feel like the best explanation of friendship is the comfort of knowing that even when you feel alone, you’re not. True friends make you feel heard, seen and accepted. They give you total freedom to be yourself.

True friends aren’t the ones that try to make your problems disappear, they are the ones that won’t disappear when you are facing them.

Each friend represents a world to us, a world that isn't possible until they arrive in it.

Don’t have any good friends? Then become one to someone.

>> Tag Your Friends!

20/01/2024

Morning Mantra: “Some of your best days are ahead of you.”

If you are feeling a little down, try to focus on the fact that you have a lot to look forward to.
How cool is it to think that you haven’t met all your best friends. You haven’t made all your favorite memories. You haven’t heard all your favorite songs or eaten all your favorite meals.

It might help to remember that your present situation is not your destination. There is much more to live for, much more to learn, so far to grow, and so much love to give and receive.

Let today be what it is live it with the knowledge that better days are coming.

16/01/2024

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06/12/2023

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Morning Mantra: “You cannot make people see clearly when they find comfort in their fog.”

Denial is selective reality. In some cases, denial keeps us blind to the things we don’t want to accept because our mind tells us we are not ready to handle them. In other times we know the truth, but we stay in denial because we don’t WANT to believe or accept it.

It can be frustrating to have a relationship with someone in denial. Especially when the ability to move on requires them to accept the truth about your feelings. You cannot use facts or reality to reason with them if they are committed to the lie they have created as their truth.

Denial in these cases isn’t them knowing the truth and pretending they don’t, it’s them failing to see it at all.

10/11/2023

Morning Mantra: “Getting knocked down in life is a given, getting back up is a choice.”

When life knocks you down, stay there for a little while.
Catch your breath, rest, look up at the sky, gaze at the clouds, the birds, the stars,
the moon, whatever’s up there, and know, this thing that knocked you down, is only a
lesson along a path that leads to something better.

What happens to us, doesn’t determine who we are.
So rest.
When you’re ready, get up, be grateful this lesson is now behind you and
carry on.


Quote: Toni O’Keeffe

17/10/2023

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Morning Mantra: "You owe it to yourself to do the things that make you happy."

Here's the secret about things you love. If you put them down you can always pick them back up again.
You can always ride again, paint again, sew again, hike again, play music again, write that book again, take that photograph again.
"But it's been so long."
The thing you love doesn't care.
And neither should you.

18/09/2023

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Morning Mantra: “Some things are meant to happen, they're just not meant to be.”

Stop breaking your own heart to make a relationship work that clearly isn’t meant to work. You can’t force someone to care about you. You can’t force someone to love you back. You can’t force someone to be the person you need them to be.

Some people are meant to come into your life, they're just not meant to stay. Sometimes the person you want the most is the person you’re best without. You can’t get the relationship you need from someone who’s not ready to give it to you.

Don’t put your happiness on hold for someone who isn’t holding on to you.

25/08/2023

When Father Time caught my mare
the leaves were turning brown.
She was suffering and couldn't eat,
it was time to put her down.

It's hard to do what you need to
when your eyes are soakin' wet.
I thought about my childhood
and waited for the vet.

I held her halter, talked to her
and looked her in the eye.
She had no way of knowin'
what was makin' her friend cry.

I guess I wasn't ready.
When she fell it made me weep.
I rubbed her nose and sang to her.
She slowly went to sleep.

A breeze blew down from somewhere
and brushed away my tears,
like a kiss From Heaven
for all the happy years.

In my mind she's in a meadow,
the grass is long and green.
She teaches every kid to ride
and becomes their favorite dream.
Artist- Lesley Harrison

21/08/2023

24/06/2023

Morning Mantra: "Be the things you loved about the people who are gone."

What was it about them that you kept in your heart?
Was it the kindness they showed you when you were feeling down?
Was it the guidance they offered when you felt lost?
Or maybe it was their generosity, sense of humor, or work ethic?

These were not just their lessons, they were a sharing of energy.
We carry a little bit of every person and animal we have known.

You make a commitment that you are going to take those lessons, and make them true in your own life. This is a positive way to keep their spirit alive in the world by keeping it alive in yourself.

28/05/2023

There's no LUCK without hard work.

19/05/2023

Marc and Angel...

20/02/2023

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Morning Mantra: "Settle your spirit before you speak."

Anxiety, pain, and fear have a way of expressing themselves, even when you are unaware that they are doing the talking.
We lash out, we scream, we withdraw.

Speak to be heard, not to hurt. Come from a frame of mind that allows you to express yourself so you will be heard.

It's okay to have feelings and to try to communicate them. It's never okay to be cruel and hurtful.

Becoming aware of your feelings is the first step in developing positive, satisfying communication.

17/11/2022

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10/09/2022

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