Emotions

Emotions can be very powerful catalysts in determining results. I have recently experienced this in my personal and business life. We have disappointments at home, we lose those we love and we have happy events occur. All of these events can control our emotions, as they should.

You have to develop emotional resilience in your business life.

My life lesson in this experience is to know your business, which gives you confidence in your position or opinion. Then, if confronted with negative emotions, let it be known you are not engaging in that and will remain positive. You will then be successful in most of your business relationships because you can clearly think about what moves to make.

Be patient, be attentive, be confident, be a listener, be successful

Multiple Roads

We make a choice to engage in our life’s work and relationships based on what we believe our best or available option at that time. Sometimes we are confronted with obstacles or unexpected consequences. Things just don’t turn out like we thought and we feel defeated, disheartened and sad.

Remember, you have multiple roads to take in life and never be afraid or hesitant to change your road and travel on a different path. I have advised my son and grandson to change roads when needed and not feel as though you have failed because of this change. A failure will not change and continue on the road filled with obstacles and roadblocks and, as a result, never reach their destination or full potential.

I have lived my life full of life direction changes and this has made me a well-rounded, experienced person, a success at living my life. I always ask God to reveal to me His will for my life and patiently wait for Him to reveal that direction.

So don’t fear changing roads in your life. Gather knowledge from each path and travel the new road with confidence. I know we all have multiple roads we can travel so roll on and don’t look back.

Never be afraid to change. Change is growth, and growth is necessary to realize all that God has for you.

My Big Brother

My big brother has always been a star in my family. When he walked into a room all eyes are on him. He was voted Most Handsome in his high school senior class. He dated a majorette and she was one of the most beautiful women I had seen. They had beautiful children and love was shared throughout our family.

Over the years my big brother and I have not seen each other as much because we have moved to different cities but when we see each other we hug so hard and long and feel the love. Oh how I love my big brother.

My big brother passed from this life on Monday of this week and I will never get to see him and hug him again. I keep thinking about things unsaid and how we should have talked more often but that will never happen now.

Hug your loved ones now, say what you need to say now, forgive now, and say I love you now.

Oh how I wish I could see my big brother now

God's Plan

You never know what God’s plan is for your life. You have to make each day filled with showing love, providing help, making others smile and praising Him. As parents, we prepare ourselves to make this journey and one day leave this world for the next and leave our kids behind. Sometimes it doesn’t happen that way; sometimes our kids leave us. That’s harder to accept because it’s not the natural order of expectations.

God’s plans are unknown to us and He is the great Architect of life. You can be sick and feel the end is near and all of a sudden another person you don’t expect to leave is suddenly gone. You ask how this happened and why. It’s God’s plan.

I am faced with much sadness today because this has now happened in my family. Someone I always looked at as strong and in control has left this world. His mother is left with a void in her heart because this is not the natural order of things.

Show love and spend time with your parents and loved ones today because tomorrow may be too late.

We never know for sure God’s Plan