#UnBlockYourself

Your Presence Is Your Present

Your Presence Is Your Present
 
I know it’s an old cliche, but it’s truth, you fully being there in the moment is truly a gift.
 
Have you ever had a conversation with someone who is on the phone, distracted by social media, or texting someone else. They may be right there, but in conversation you may be alone. That’s not a good feeling. Actually may be a withdrawal from our emotional bank accounts. 
 
During this time of the year, We spend time with friends and family, getting together, spending quality time with them. Let’s be intentional and try to be mindful of our own presence when we are interacting with the people we visit with. 
 
Make it a game, try to find something interesting in what people are saying to you. Find the little nuggets of information that could be the key to your next level. I can almost guarantee that someone will have something for you if you are looking for it. You have to be “in the now” to find it. 
 
One more thought, build your story. Listen to the stories being told, discover how funny, courageous, or awe inspiring the people you know can be. How much wisdom sits around your table,  and how lucky you are to know know such wonderful people. 
 
Sometimes you have to dig, but know something is there for you if you really try. 

If Only Statements

If Only Statements
In MS Excel, if statements can be used to create formulas and functions for all kind of little tricks. I made all kind of little programs when I was younger. 
 
Now that I think about it, “if only” statements can help us break self-limiting beliefs! If you are able to label a limitation with an “if only” statement, you give yourself a path to victory. 
 
Here is the formula: 
"I could be or do ______________ if only I had _______________."
This statement tells you your goal. Not only that, but what it would take to achieve this goal. 
 
"I could be rich if only I had stocks."
Well, go get stocks. Research. Get advice. Go get what you are seeking, what excuse will you come up with? It will be hard because if you want it, you take on that excuse as a challenge. 
 
"I could be spiritual if only I had time."
Create time. Carve it out in your schedule. You can actually prioritize your time to have alone time with God. 
 
Can you think of a If Only Statement for you to crush???

It’s Okay To Crawl

It’s okay to crawl
 
Ever feel that your life is moving too slow? 
You aren’t quite where you’re supposed to be?
That’s ok!
It’s okay to crawl, slowly, safely towards your mark. It might show that you are cautious and have wisdom. 
 
Usually though, we have this feeling when we are looking in the wrong place, outside of ourselves, watching people around us get elevated (probably because they are focused on their own goals). 
 
Good news, even Little by little we still win the race. But you have to see it. You have to think it through. 
 
Our lives are lived out in the reflection of our thinking. 
 
If you are persistent you can achieve it
If you are consistent you can keep it 
Little by little, a little does a lot
-Jim kwik
 
Questions to reflect on 
What am I doing?
This project I’m working on, is it fueling my passion, and is it necessary to my purpose of doing what God’s created me to be and do?
What I’m focused on now, do I need to do it? What do I need to let others do to get this done? and what are we doing that needs to stop? (what’s not working)

Don't Miss It!

Don’t Miss It
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord.
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways,
And My thoughts than your thoughts. - Isaiah 55:8-9
 
“It’s easy to miss something you’re not looking for”
 
We have a lot of ideas and  we want God to do so much for us, but I think we have this idea that what we want will come the way we want it. We expect to get the things we want exactly the  way we want it, so we are looking for our answers from where we expect them to come from.
 
But what if God wants to teach us something? What if He feels that things will be better if the answer comes from the left when we think it will definitely come from the right.  And think, if we only look in the directions of our “feels”, then we most definitely will miss something big.
 
 “It’s easy to miss something you’re not looking for”
 
Think about the Christmas story, Scripture fore told about a conquering King, and a baby was born. This King was to come in triumphantly, Jesus rode a donkey.
 
“It’s easy to miss something you’re not looking for”
 
Distractions happen easily to us because we are not focused on what we are supposed to be doing. 
 
Have you ever said “I got a minute of free time, let me see what’s happening on social media” and then an hour later you are scrambling to make up the time you lost?
 
Distraction is a tactic used to slip something by you, usually something important. The definition of distraction is: a thing that prevents someone from giving full attention to something else. Another definition says:
 
Distraction is the process of diverting the attention of an individual or group from a desired area of focus and thereby blocking or diminishing the reception of desired information
 
Remember, “It’s easy to miss something you’re not looking for”, Even if you are looking for it, but in the wrong place, or just not paying attention.

Listen and Trust

Listen and Trust
Ever feel  like you are pushing to hard to make things happen? Or feel like you are doing way too much? You probably are. 
 
No one says that life will be easy, but we are supposed to trade in our heaven burdens in exchange for the joy of the Lord. 
If He offers this exchange, what’s wrong?
 
When we start to feel this way, we need to check ourselves. We may be trying to forge a dirt path through a forest while there is a paved road 100 feet away. 
 
We fix this feeling through prayer and listening. 
Listening to the answers we get and trusting that they are truth. 
 
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.”
Proverbs 3:5-6 NIV
 
With established straight paths there is no need to worry if you are going in the right direction.
 
With established straight paths there is no need to worry about the time and energy it will take trying to create the road that has already been laid for you. 
 
With established straight paths there is no need to worry about how you will get to your end vision and goals, trust that the person who gave the vision, also provides the way to get there. 

Connections

Connections
 
Plug into the Power source
Power to do great things flows like electricity,
From the source to a good conductor. Results from A bad conductor is usually a really weak flow if anything at all. 
Electricity flowing through (rubber and copper.) 
 
For power to flow through us we need to be connected to the source. 
 
For vision to flow to children, or for people to see what you see, they have to be able connect to you. 
 
They need to see your vision in action, understand where your vision is going, and find their place to plug in. When connected, they can help you. 
 
Connection is basically an extension from one point to another. When one object connects to another, the two objects become an extension of the other. This is positive or negative, good or bad, so be mindful of your connections. 

Change the Trajectory

Change the trajectory 
One of our aims in life should be to leave a legacy for our children and our children’s children. 
 
You have been placed in a position of power, to break the negative narrative being fed to us and our children. Things that say, “you are from so and so, and you cannot do nor become anything” especially when all along you know the scriptures say that, “I can do all things through Christ that gives me strength.” 
 
We change the trajectory when we change the the things we hear and say. We change the lives of our children when we fill them with words to kickstart their minds to thinking for themselves, and seeing the potential they have in themselves because we have their back. 
 
We change the trajectory when we change our course from a dead end street to an open highway by having an open mind to follow after God. 
 
We change the trajectory of our children and our children’s children when we take a stand to break generational curses that we have accepted as normal because “that’s how its always been”
 
We change the trajectory when we become intentional in who we are and in what we do. 
 
Yesterday is gone, tomorrow has not yet come, all you have is today. Since you have greatness in you, go out and be great!

Unblocking

UnBlocking
Mind, body, spirit, finances, and relationships...
Everything we want lies within these. 
When we take time to think things through, we can clear up pathways of communication to each of these. 
 
My job is to help people find what they are looking for, by helping them unblock themselves. Everything that has come into existence started with a thought. Unblocking your thoughts will clear away the limitations of self doubt, worry, and fear, which are the various scenarios we all have playing in our minds that stop us from fully accomplishing the goals and vision we have for ourselves. 
 
Emerson said, “If you have something to say,  you will be given the power to say it. “
 
I want to be useful to you by helping you be the best you out there, so if you have a vision for something, I want to help you unblock the power to think it into existence.