You Know What Time It Is

RING THE ALARM

This is a wake-up call!

Wake up, wake up, wake up!!! You’ve been down for too long, and there’s no one to blame but yourself. You are not a victim of life. Life does not happen to you. You make the life you want happen for you. You are a co-creator of your life and destiny. All you need to do is make a choice today that you will do all you can within your control to take life by the horns.

Click, clack.

I’m typing this post with haste because there’s an urgency to this message. This is a mid-year PSA! If you are reading this…this is a reminder that you are where you are because of the decisions you’ve made. The outcomes of your life are a compilation of all the choices you've made up until this point. Point. Blank. Period.

For so long, I believed that much of life’s happenings are out of my control. The family you are born into, the talents you naturally have, the shape of your head — the list goes on and on. But here’s the thing—if you are reading this, you are not in that category of people who have absolutely no access to resources that could help them succeed in life. People with the worst of circumstances have made the best of their situations.

We all have experienced a glimmer of hope for a better life, but we lost the spark because we didn’t do the work to sustain it. We’ve all received information, knowledge, or advice that could have changed our lives—or at least our circumstances—if we had acted on it. But most times, we take those things for granted. We initially get excited and maybe apply it once or twice, but then we eventually lose it.

Case in point: June—August.

I had some health challenges over the past couple of weeks that had wrecked me in many ways. I had moments of relief when I listened to advice, but when I fell off, I found myself back on the ground. And now I’ve been prescribed to go on a gluten-free diet. Oh, and I’m also supposed to be sugar-free.

I promise I didn’t crave sugar until I attempted to be sugar-free.

Now all I think about is having something sweet. But I’m also fully aware of how my body feels after I have sugar. So now the ball is in my court. I can’t blame anyone if I’m unproductive; if I’m consuming food I know I shouldn’t be.

Now that I’ve put myself on blast, I’ll have to share my journey on this new diet with you all, ’cause why was I already on ChatGPT finding new recipes? It’s going to be challenging and more time-consuming, but it’s the work I have to do to sustain my energy and give my body what it demands of me.

Emotions Are So Overrated.

If you allow your emotions to dictate your moves, they will eventually overtake you. If you look to your emotions for advice on decisions you want to make, they will eventually take over your thinking process, and you’ll have no control over how your emotions decide to manifest themselves.

How often do you tell yourself no?
What boundaries do you have with yourself?
Who are you accountable to for the decisions you make?

The principles we keep are what keeps us adaptable to the curve balls life throws at us. If we don’t develop a principled life which eventually becomes the foundation of our decisions, we won’t be rooted in anything solid, and pretty much anything can shake our core. In every opportunity that life brings, there are new challenges that will require a higher level of resilience.

If you are still ruled by your emotions, you can never stand for long. Success demands that we are submitted to principles that govern the decisions we make. We see successful people as disciplined, but truly successful people aren’t just disciplined—they are principled. It’s their value system that drives them to make decisions.

You Can’t Escape Doing the Work.

Hope for a better tomorrow isn’t based on excitement or motivation. It lies in the practical change of doing something different that will yield a different result. You can’t escape doing the work for the change you want to see, so buckle down.

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