Just Me

  If there is one thing that has definitely tested me in life, it’s my perception about love. Mostly, how I interpret it. For the longest time, I was always trying to typify the love I felt for people. Like “I love him like a brother” or “I love her like a sister.” “I love them as a friend” or “I love them more than the whole world” (and that’s usually a sentiment reserved for my kids!).   But on this, my birthday, I was given a special gift: The knowledge that it’s time to stop sticking my love for someone into a category. And also, that it is perfectly okay for me to love someone who does not love me in return. It is okay to love someone who hates me and says terrible things about me behind closed doors. It is okay to love someone who has hurt me in a way that I struggled to forgive them for for years. And it is okay to love someone who thinks that nobody could possibly love them at all. It’s okay for me to love someone who does not love me in the same way. On top of this, I al

So I finally started a new schedule that I had put together for myself sometime ago. I remembered reading in an ebook on how someone suggested that if you wanted to try to get all of your goals met in one day, then devote at least 30 minutes to working on it each day. I decided to see if this was doable for me!   And, in my case, I have a lot of goals.   Getting in that time to write every day is not just my only writing goal. I am also editing a book, revising another book, and researching/writing yet another book. Let’s not forget I’m still working on my author site! I also have fitness goals, a vocational goal, a daily goal, long-term goals, personal goals (things that I MUST get done every day), reading goals, bucket list goals and a project goal.   Up until the time I was able to try out this schedule, I relied on trying to mark all that stuff as “complete” on a To Do list. Unfortunately, I was never able to get ALL of them done this way. But I couldn’t try out the s