Thursday, October 23, 2014

Eric Thomas

I was listening to Eric Thomas (if you don't know who this is - look him up. Don't judge the book by its cover!) and a lot of what he was saying was really helpful.

I. Call to action:

     a. Think about positive solutions and stop empowering the problem!
              -  "whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is                             lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things." Philippians 4:8
              -   Think about what you're thinking about and be deliberate about it.
             
       b. STOP making a god out of the problem!
              - The problem has now become the problem... 
              - The problem is that you don't have a solution for the problem! That's the dog-gone problem!


I CAN... move past this 
I WILL... move past this
I MUST... move past this 

"You deserve to see what your life would be like if you put 120% into it."

But what is success? What is the solution? What do I need to be doing to get there? How do I get there? How do I get better? How do I find the will to keep going? These are questions Eric couldn't give me answers to - questions I'm still trying to find answers to. 

.... The last guy to use me (let's just call him "J") texted me asking for nude photos of me... And then proceeded to get angry and incensed when I wouldn't send them... It was the last straw. How much lower could I get?! I was nothing to these men. Nothing but a nice looking piece of meat. But you know what? I am something to me. I matter to me. And they had no right to treat me the way that they did. No right. So I'm not going to let them continue to. I've blocked J's number from my phone. If I am pregnant, I know where to find him to tell him (And I'll take someone with me to do it!) - but I will not have him in my life. I simply won't put up with it any longer. 


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