Consistency - Commitment Day 2014

Yesterday, January 1, 2014 was a great day of food, family and fellowship. Later on in the day, my husband and I, my mom and my uncle went to lunch on New Years' Day. The food was good and the fellowship with family was even better. What made the day so great was that my husband and I completed what's called a Commitment Day 5K fun race. It was great. It was really cold outside, but it was such a great way to start the New Year. We also felt great because this was our 2nd year in a row completing Commitment Day. We plan to make it a New Years' tradition every year. I am thankful for a new year, a new life, new health and new opportunities, the opportunity to race and walk and train for a Half Marathon later on this year. Thank you Lord for this day. I am also grateful that today I had an opportunity to drink a healthy green and fruit smoothie and I am on Day 3 of my workouts: I am completing the "Six Weeks to Skinny Jeans" workouts daily and the 5 Factor Diet workouts on a daily basis. Today I did the 6 Week Warm-up and Burn workout and the Thursday 5 Factor weight training workouts. Thank you Lord for another day. Amen.

A New Year A New Life

2014 - A New Year a New Life. This is my 44th year of life and it is my year of fully and totally trusting God and being consistent on a daily basis. In the areas of consistency: I am going to be consistent with exercising daily, drinking water daily, eating healthy foods daily, praying and meditating daily. Journaling daily. This is also the year that I am going to fully trust God. I have had trust issues since I was a very small child. My issues with trust and authority began when my parents got a divorce. My father's absence led me to have a lack of trust towards everything and everyone, even God. I was listening to Wayne Dyer recently and he was talking about the meaning of EGO - Edging God Out and how when were babies in the womb we had total faith and trust in God and total faith and trust in our mother's who were carrying us. Shortly after birth, we were helpless and we totally trusted our parents, guardians and caretakers to take care of us. Once we started talking and thinking, we no longer felt like we had to trust anyone. We only had to trust ourselves. As a result of not trusting God, I have messed up in a number of areas of my life: my career, my health, relationships, etc. I could go on and on, but it is a new year and a new life of possibilities. Forgetting those things that are behind me and starting a new. So I am not going to dwell on what I did wrong and my past mistakes. I acknowledge the mistakes and I am moving on. I am completely and totally trusting God in all areas of my life. I have been very preoccupied with issues surrounding my finances and my career. I am placing every area of my life into the hands of God, with a special emphasis on my finances and my career. That's not to say I am not going to be responsible. I have started a 2014 savings plan. My goal is to tithe on the income that I earn and save. I have so much trust in God that I am placing my career and my current income in God's hands. "It is enough. I don't have to look for anything else. Lord, you know what we need. You know what my husband needs. You know the needs of my mom. You know what we are going through financially and you know what we are facing. I trust that you know what's best and that you have control over this entire situation. I turn it over to you. What I have is enough, and I thank you for it all. One of my New Years' resolutions for 2014 is to stop applying for jobs. I am going to stop applying for jobs, I am going to stop looking on job boards, I am going to stop searching Craigslist for jobs. I am going to stop searching Rat Race Rebellion for jobs. I have been addicted to searching for jobs for over 10 years'. The sad reality is that, even when I had "good paying jobs" and so-called jobs where I could utilize my degree, I was NEVER satisfied. I was ALWAYS on the look-out for a new job because, due to my lack of trust issues, I never trusted that the current that I had was secure. So, once I secured that job, I could never keep that job, enjoy that joy and grow in that job because I was always insecure about getting fired or laid off. So, instead, I'd constantly be on the look-out for a new job and I would change jobs before being laid off or fired. Or, while working the job, I'd look for side jobs to do along with that job. It's time to make a change and the change that needs to be made is my ability to trust. My ability to trust that God supplies all my needs and that what God has blessed me with is enough. So I am beginning a new year with a new attitude. That new attitude is to stop being "on the look out" for a new job. To accept what I have. "Little becomes much when you place it in the master's hand." I'm placing it in HIS hands. Amen.