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As I am envisioning my future, I am looking back on past moments and analyzing present moments. I sit at my favorite spot listening to “Be Still” by Jeremy Riddle with an overflowing heart. I think of all the times I have came here and all the pictures I have taken. How each time felt and looked different. How I felt and looked different. Yet I never looked upon the sunrise as anything less than a miracle. The ability for me to see and experience these precious moments, priceless. Moments so beautiful that pictures can’t do them justice. Yet still I try to capture them. Lol. I would like to share a few with you. I am in awe of the world around me. I am thankful and I am grateful of this life.

Right now it can be a struggle to find things to be grateful for besides the obvious. But why not acknowledge the obvious. Be careful to not use comparison though. Saying, “Well I woke up this morning and someone else did not” will not make you feel better. Say instead, “I am grateful for waking up this morning.” “I am grateful for …” Whatever it is. I had the nerves to get an attitude yesterday because my tire pressure light came on. Mind you, my tire did not go flat. Now I do have a history of tire issues on EVERY single car I have ever owned. To the point that my last 2 cars I added tire coverage in with the payments. So there I was with my woe is me attitude. Ugh…I had to snap myself out of that quickly. I made it to the gas station and put air in the tire. All is well. So my statement is “I am grateful that I have grown. I am grateful that I do not allow small things to ruin my whole day.”

This transformation did not happen overnight. And it is nowhere near complete. Remember I said I got an attitude first. But practicing gratitude puts you in a place to see the bright side even when it seems pitch black. You can single out the feel good moments. I have a tendency to pick out the one thing that I said or did wrong and dwell on it for days 🙄. Based on information that I have read, I’m not the only one. So the daily practice of remembering the good things helps to shift my mindset. If you haven’t already, start to keep a gratitude journal. Write out at least 3 things you are grateful for each day. You can even type it in your phone’s calendar or note app. Whatever is the best way for you to do it.

I stand by my thoughts in regards to how long or short a post should be. I think that I have allowed these preconceived notions to hold me back from posting as often. I sometimes feel as if I need to say more. Which is weird because I always want people to get to the point. Lol. Why use a paragraph when you can say it in a sentence? No more. I am just going to write it going forward.

Hope that you enjoyed the pictures I included in this post. If you would like me to share more pictures or less pictures (lol), leave a comment down below or email me at elsims27@yahoo.com. I look forward to hearing from you. Stay safe and masked up 😷 in these ‘Rona streets. It is not going anywhere anytime soon. Continue to be well and whole. Much Love 🧡💚

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So one of my goals for 2020 was to post at least 3 blog posts a month. I have successfully done that each month up until this point. I do not want to break my strike. So this post will be the third one for this month. I originally wanted to write about my trip to Mexico but I just haven’t gotten around to it. My mind has been overwhelmed with so many other things.

I have joined this course called Money Mind Academy by none other than Sean Croxton. I know at this point y’all probably think I am obsessed but that is not the case. Lol. Don’t get me wrong, he is hot🔥. But most importantly, he is smart. He has taken all the knowledge he has learned over the years and created some very profitable businesses. I want to do the same so why not learn these skills from someone who is successful at it. This course is teaching individuals how to get rid of limiting beliefs about money and how to attract money and opportunities to live an abundant life. Uh…I need that. I don’t want to have to work forever. Do you? I hope the answer is no.

These past few weeks I have been focused on me. I attended a 7 day writing challenge with Hay House. This is a publishing company started by Louise Hay that works with writers such as Dr. Wayne Dyer (1 of my faves) and Gabrielle Bernstein. They were providing writers with information to help them start and complete their books. I learned so much. I attended a seminar by Mary Morrisey about going after your dreams with speakers such as Les Brown, Lisa Nichols, Sonia Ricotti, Bob Proctor and Neale Donald Walsch. I had heard of all the other speakers except for Neale. He was so cool. I am definitely ordering his book “Conversations with God”.

On top of that, I have been listening to audio books as I work on puzzles. I finished “Untamed” by Glennon Doyle, “Dear Girls” by Ali Wong and “Everything Is Figureoutable” by Marie Forleo. I loved them all, but I am going to purchase “Everything Is Figureoutable”. Marie provided exercises that if you actually do them, everything will be figureoutable and doable, no ifs, ands or buts. I have purchased a few new audiobooks and puzzles to work on as well. I am terrible at picking puzzles. I have managed to pick at least 6 puzzles that were missing 1 or 2 pieces. My mom finds this unbelievable 😂. I feel like 🤷🏾‍♀️.

I want the best for me. The only way that I can achieve it is by acquiring the tools and going after it full force. That is where I am at right now. I am determined to not let this pandemic, this illness or any other life circumstances stop me. I will continue to educate myself, break down walls, create new beliefs that serve me and work on being vulnerable. Now meditation seems like a lost cause. Lol. I will keep trying though. I want it all!

And I want it all for each and every one of you. Whatever you want for your life, I hope and pray you get it. Just know that it will not magically appear. These courses that I attended were online and except for Money Mind Academy, were totally FREE. The audiobooks I rented from the library and listened to them on my phone. I do have Audible which I got at a discounted rate of $7.49 per month. I will be canceling once that rate expires. Lol. But most audiobooks I listened to came from the library. There is ways to learn to be better and do better without spending a dime.

If you are interested in any of these awesome speakers and authors, programs or audiobooks, I am happy to provide any information that I have. Email me at elsims27@yahoo.com or leave a message down below. I truly want everyone to live an abundant life, especially in these difficult times. Be well and whole. Much love 🧡💚

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I have been living and experiencing but not much writing. Crazy right!?! I took almost back to back trips. Upon my return, I have just been sealing in all these wonderful memories. I like to think back fondly when life isn’t going so great. Here is one fond and a couple of not so fond memories from when I visited my mom. Lol.

Went on a boat ride and got to see my mom’s friend retrieve crabs from his traps. That was very interesting. Here is a video. Had to shorten the video. I think I will upload my videos to YouTube and then share on my posts.

The crabs were fighting for their lives and I don’t blame them. Their little asses kept jumping out of the container and scurrying around the boat. Chalupa, my niece and I were not about that life. Lol.

Now the not so fond memories besides the phone screen going out on me. One morning I woke up to go to the bathroom and seen a little black thing on the floor. Probably about the size of a quarter or a little bigger. I am trying to figure out if it is a spider or a frog. It’s not moving and neither the fuck am I. Lol. Well…it jumped and so the fuck did I. Ugh…it is a frog. Now I can’t smash it. If it had been a spider it would have been plastered on the bottom of a shoe.

This is where it gets comical. Now that he has shown himself, he keeps jumping and I am trying to devious a way to cover him to get him outside for release. I don’t know why there is a Styrofoam bowl in the bathroom, but there is one on the sink. So I’m like I am going to throw this bowl on top of him. Now his little ass is against the wall. Plan null and void. New plan. Get him away from the wall so I can throw the bowl on him. I take the toilet scrubber with holder and try to get him to get in the middle of the floor. He just keeps jumping along the wall and now the tub ending up behind the toilet. Dude, what the fuck!?!?!?

Now I am bent down encouraging him with the scrubber to get his ass from behind the toilet. He is jumping alongside the sink. Finally he is in the middle of the floor. I throw the bowl at him, I miss. 🤣🤣🤣. Why 😩???? I am scared to grab the bowl because that may make him jump his little ass out of the bathroom. I look in the trash bin. Only a couple paper towels inside it. I pull them out and hurriedly put the trash bin over him. 😓

I can’t sleep. I know he can’t get out from under there but my imagination is overactive. Also, I feel bad and I am hoping he is okay. Then there is the possibility of my niece waking up and going to the bathroom. She might take the trash bin off him not knowing. So many thoughts!

I hear my mom in the kitchen around 3:30 am and let her know what’s up. We devise a plan to release him in the morning. I finally fall asleep around 4 am. Around 7 in the morning we set about enacting our plan. We take a cut up gift box and slide it under the trash can. We are going to lift it and carry him outside. The gift box bows just a little and I see little black feet. I proceed to smash little black feet. Awe I did not want to do that but he cannot get out off this trash can until he is outside. Period! We get outside and my mom pitches the gift box, trash can and frog into the air and they laid on the grass 😂. My niece comes outside like, “What is going on?” I am laughing too hard to respond. Then little miss says, “Y’all crazy. I’m going back to bed.”

I wish that it ended there. By no means. Next night, my mom is at a BBQ and my niece and I are chilling watching TV. She goes out on the porch to get her notebook she left out there earlier. I tell her to shut the door behind her. She is like, “I just need to sit this down and then I’ll close it.” About 10 minutes later we both turn to see a Palmetto bug about 2 times the size of the frog crawling on the wall. Oh God 😫. She is freaking out and I am cussing. Lol. I grab my mom’s broom. I proceed to hit him with it. Unfortunately that hit doesn’t kill him. It just maims him. Now he is on the floor under one of the chairs. I am hypervigilant because I don’t know where he is and I know he is not dead.

I go back to watching TV but I keep glancing over at the wall. He is back. I hit him again but he just falls. Now I am pissed because he is under the chair again. I try to sweep him out from behind the chair but he is not cooperating. I sit back down, but stay alert. Here he comes limping out from under the chair. I grab the broom and hit him several times. Chalupa says, “You don’t have to torture him.” I am not trying to torture him, I am trying to kill him!

After these two instances, I had a pretty mild stay. Thank God. I don’t know how much more nature I could handle. The only animals I like are dogs. Anything else, I’m good. Wait until I tell y’all about my Mexico trip. Smh. I think I could have developed anxiety after that trip. It makes my complaints about the animals at my mom’s house seem ridiculous.

Pandemic ✔
Racism ✔
Genetically Modified Mosquitoes ✔
Cops who killed Breonna Taylor still free ✔

Not much has changed in America. If you are struggling with what is going on in the world, I totally understand. Still haven’t completely tuned back in. Every time I think I want to my mind says, “Wait, we aren’t ready yet.” Mental health is truly important. Do not oversaturate yourself with the news and current events. Find a balance people, seriously. Make sure that you stay well and whole. Much love 🧡💚

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