Begin

I guess what I’m trying to explain is the fact that we can choose to begin again as long as we change the way we think about the thing we are trying to begin. The end of one thing is really a beginning, so, we could choose to say “I’m beginning a new relationship” instead of saying “My relationship with Joe, for example, just ended”. And that new relationship that just started could be with yourself, your father, a friend, someone you’ve not yet met but as we anticipate this new beginning with optimism so it will be–you still can cry and go through the emotions. Being positive is not denial, it is simply choosing to be in control, being the master of your own ship.

 I remember many years ago when I used to be a pessimist, I truly believed that after every good thing that happened to me something really bad would happen and guess what, it did. I let it go on for years until I decided it would have to stop, it wasn’t easy but it sure was worth it. Can you imageine what it would be like if butterflies gave up squeezing out of their coocoon if they decided the pain was just too unbearable? How sad the world would be without those pretty little fluttery creatures. Bumble bees were anatomically not meant to fly  but they do. We can take our examples from these awesome  creatures.  Aren’t we supposed to be above them and they beneath us?  yet they have such a fierce determination that many humans can’t match.

We are about to begin a new year and billions of resolutions will be made, writen and sworn in, yet statistically, only ten percent will make it and here’s  why, well it is a very simple reason: they take action. Those in that ten percent  catregory will decide to begin and stay the course. They stay the course because they believe they will make it and they absolutely take don’t take No for an answer. And when they meet an obstacle on their way, they don’t give up, they simply begin again. Every beginning has a potential for greatness, every beginning is fueled by the power of its creators thoughts.

Our lives are marked by new beginings, from the moment we awake and take the very first breath of the day, we’ve made a descision, a descision to wake up and face the day, to write a new story in the book of our lives. We are the author, the star, the bestseller of that book  and we decide if it’ll be a tragedy or a comedy, if it’ll be punctauted with drama or hyphenated with love. So begin, BE (the) G (greatness) IN (inside of you). All it takes is just one five lettered word, begin, followed with an action, do, and everything else is learned along the way.

“Thoughts are words spoken in silence whose secrets are only revealed in action”
–Bernice Angoh Lakota