What’s Stopping YOU?

The definition of an excuse is a well-planned lie. It is a growing epidemic and the number one cause of failure, yet we continue to pass it down to our children. Something so minute, so small and yet we do not even realize that we are being held captive by this one word.

Held captive, in bondage, wrapped in chains, chains around our eyes, chains around our mouth, chains around our ears, our neck, our arms, our legs, our feet-chains wrapped around our entire being.

We live like this every second of every day, teaching our children to have reasons instead of results. They need strong examples of leadership and we give them excuses to continue to live a life of failure.

Why? We are all able bodied people with 24 hours in a day. We are all given a chance to do something with our lives, yet here we are…settling for less. We have given up and settled for mediocrity.

We argue and defend our “reasons” instead of propelling ourselves forward to get results. Most of us have been so conditioned to believe our excuses instead of finding the will to find the way to get out of the situation that we’re in.

We live in “Why not”, “If only”, “I wish I would have”, “I wish I could have” land; a land full of diseased thoughts. Here we wallow in hopelessness, despair, apathy, self-pity and self-hate.

Afraid to hope, afraid to dream, afraid to live.

Why do we settle for less in a comfort zone that really is not comfortable?

Have you ever wondered what it is like on the other side? On the other side of mediocrity? Where we choose to step up in faith. We choose to step up and out of our rut.

Where we choose to do something better with our lives. Where we choose success instead of failure. Because we do have a choice!

We can choose to live our life as though we do not have tomorrow. As though tomorrow did not exist. God gave us the ability to change.

We can instill in us that determination that we once possessed as children, that persistence of not giving up until we get what we want, see and feel.

That commitment is going to be what takes us out of where we are right now. It’s going to take us out of this so-called facade of a comfort zone and have us rise up above it to see what life is truly like to live.

To live it to the fullest each and every day instead of giving into doubt, giving up to unbelief, giving in to circumstances. Because we can never buy back yesterday. We can only fully maximize today!

So the question is, are you fully maximizing today?

Are you going to fully maximize tomorrow?

Are you going to rise up out of those circumstances and find a way to make it happen at all costs without giving up?

Are you going to give it your absolute best shot, because your best is good enough?

This is what our children need to see. This is what our communities need to see. A people, a chosen generation to rise up, to rise up and out of apathy, to rise up of no vision.

To step out and go forward and do what many have done before us. Can you imagine giving your children this gift?

My mother gave me this gift when she refused to let drug addiction control her life. Because there is going to be a day that your last breath is taken.

Do you want to look back before that breath is taken and feel fully satisfied that you gave it your best, you gave it your all to live your life the way you wanted to?

My mother passed two months after she made her decision to truly live.

When will you decide to live?

This is Brandi Magill signing off, I hope you all enjoy your weekend!

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Today is…

…National Siblings Day? Take your brothers and sisters out to lunch today. Don’t have any? Take someone else’s sibling out to lunch! :~)

“Siblings are the people we practice on, the people who teach us about fairness and cooperation and kindness and caring –quite often the hard way.” ~Pamela Dugdales

For the last 20 years my sister, Casey has always looked up to me as a role-model. She may not know this, but I have always secretly looked to her as my role-model. Casey has an amazing gift of putting herself in others shoes and seeing the world through their eyes.

She relates to people and with her sincere dominior they too relate to her. Casey has taught me to not just tell my daughter how she should handle a particular situation but to relate to her situation and tell her how I handled the same situation when I was her age and why.

This approach has helped my daughter and I tremendously and I will continue to look to my sister for parenting advise even though she is not a parent:~)

Today I think we will tell Casey just how special she is to us!

What have your siblings taught you?

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