“The fact that I’m standing here flexing is without a doubt an answered prayer.”

— Cathleen Benjamin

Happy Friday Beautiful People

One of my super powers is that I don’t look at things like what I’ve been through. What’s your super power?

POWER UP Reminder: you don’t have to live in the hurt and pain you been through even if you’re still going through it. Grow through it. Choose again. That is NOT your final chapter. KEEP WRITING. 

I’ve had people count me out.
Say awful things about me.
Try to shame me.
I’ve been the underdog.
I’ve allowed myself to be in relationships that didn’t serve me.
Found myself in a physically and emotionally abusive relationship.
There were times I’d look back and questioned how I’ve continued to SHOW UP.
I’ve had my heart broken not only by people but by circumstances.
My valleys have been so low that I wondered why am I here. Like what is the purpose. BUT GOD!
I’ve been depressed. Suffered from anxiety. Until I said I no longer claim that over my life.
Like byeee heauxxx

Instead of asking why I began saying thank you. When I wake up. Expressing gratitude in the small things, in the darkness, in the weak moments, in my strongest defeats. Thank you. You chose this for me because you already knew how I’d get out of it. The fact that I’m standing here flexing is without a doubt, an answered prayer.

Don’t wait until 2019 to...
Show up for yourself
Find love
Start that business
Start that blog
Start on your health and fitness goals
Work on your credit
Open that savings account
Move...start packing to let the universe know you’re ready
Invest in your wellbeing
Rid yourself of toxic people
Break old habits that don’t serve you
Do things that will catapult your business
Make time for exercise
Eat healthier
Tell someone how you feel
Look into furthering your education
Let go
Forgive
Start that passion project
Turn loose shady people
Level up
Say yes more to LIVE and no to doubt

Keep Evolving Friends.

**power up reminders are the fuel you need to keep your soul fit and glowing**

“I’m not afraid to say. I ALMOST talked myself out of it. But I suddenly realized that was a lie...a test rather. It was a voice that was so foreign to the person I am becoming that I shut it down with the quickness and proceeded. 

You see fear CAN still catapult the leap of faith.”

Earlier today I was asked how did I find the courage? Actually I’ve been asked this a number of times since my decision was made a reality in March to became my own boss and coach and mentor women on their wellness journey. To leave Corporate America then teach clients who work in executive/corporate positions how to find that work life balance.

What people don’t know is that for almost 8yrs I too couldn’t find that courage. 

I STRUGGLED with the idea of letting go.

Cried nearly every time I dropped off my kids to school because yet again I was leaving my dreams behind in a journal and having a notebook full of ideas, goals, affirmations and request books and not truly working towards them.

Faith without works is dead. In James 2:22 it says “You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did.”

I was wishing and hoping on a miracle and not really working in alignment with my faith and towards my assignment or life’s work. I had to put my faith to the test. I HAD to. But it was not easy. 

I’m not afraid to say it’s still not easy some days I have not come to grips with my decision because I rely on..well me for a paycheck. While there is a beautiful FREEDOM to it I’m put to the test every single day. Growth and rejection is painful and sometimes the people who need your help most reject you and you have to learn to let them hit rock bottom no matter how much you want to help them avoid that.

Luckily each day I find a word to keep me encouraged and my Fit Fam and my mentors and circle of sisters some of which I’ve gained while on this journey. Blessed as I am I keep people in my circle who are constantly challenging me and who I can bounce ideas off of but still I have to do the work.

I’m not afraid to say. I ALMOST talked myself out of it. But I suddenly realized that was a lie...a test rather. It was a voice that was so foreign to the person I am becoming that I shut it down with the quickness and proceeded. 

You see fear CAN still catapult the leap of faith.

While for so many years like myself it held onto my dreams I realized I was not that person anymore and that while the mind chatter crept up it had no strength over me and my faith in God and my faith in ME.

This is not even about being scared of quitting a job or about leaving a position or situation it is a story about starting over and how stifling that can feel.

I put every excuse in front of each dreams and goal like chess. There was always a great excuse or reason why this time wasn’t the right time. To think of it when I finally made the decision I could think of over a handful of times when there was a better time. Funny how that works.

But it was time. When it’s time you know. You ALREADY know.

On my last day of that chapter, I had so many talks with people who either asked the question when did you know OR I too had a dream to go into ______ add your dream here.

We all have dreams. We all have deterrents. We all have pros and cons and hurdles and obstacles but how long can we fight our true assignments or sit wondering what our calling or passions are if you don’t just take the chance.

This is MY story, what’s yours? Do you have a decision that you’ve been struggling with? What’s stopping you? What’s holding you back? What have you already overcome? When did you come to the realization that there has to be more than just....?