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Show Up

Just this week I started the Last 90 Days challenge with Rachel and Dave Hollis. At the start of each week you get an email with 5 things for you to do each day so that you finish out this year stronger than you started. It’s about not waiting until the New Year to start over or start off stronger. I am in the first week and it’s already challenging me, which is good because I needed it. I don’t know why I needed this to push myself further but I did. One of the things they are always talking about is showing up for yourself. Stop breaking those promises to yourself. If you have committed to working out 30 minutes a day, then do it. Don’t miss one day because it won’t hurt anything…you are hurting yourself. If you have committed to giving something up that isn’t good for you, do it! If you committed to a new bible study or spending time in prayer you, do it! I have started waking up at 5:30 in the morning, which I said I could never…

Stillness

  Being still is not something that people like to do most days. We are always striving for something more, always running on a constant hamster wheel never satisfied with where we are. You see someone you know that is more successful than you and instantly feel the need to be doing more. You automatically feel unsuccessful because you are comparing your successes to someone else’s.  It is so hard sometimes to see other people succeeding and going places in life when you feel like you are just sitting still. Looking at someone else’s version of their happiness is not going to get you to your happiness. If you are constantly living through peoples highlight reels on Instagram or Facebook and think that’s how their life always is, your life will never be good enough. If I cannot have all the things in life that I want right now, why does it seem like they can? What makes them more successful than you? What you find successful and worthy may not be what God sees what is right for you. What if God’s intention is for you to be still? What if…