Episode 3- You are not alone!

Do you have an overwhelming sense of feeling alone? Did you wake up feeling unprepared, inadequate, isolated, sad, maybe a little bit anxious or depressed? Does the thought of having to face another day send a shockwave through your body and leave you feeling paralyzed? If it doesn't right now, chances are you can remember a time when you felt alone.

I know I sure can. Personally, I have countless times remembered feeling alone and inadequate and not enough. Growing up as a kid, in contrast though, I always felt very confident and secure. I always had a buddy with me. You see, I had a womb mate. Yep, that's right. I have a twin sister and she was always with me. But even when you have a friend,

For some reason, you can still feel alone when you enter a middle school or a high school, or even walking into a social setting, maybe a dinner party or a holiday gathering, or even walking into church. I can remember being teased for not having a small body. I was called thunder thighs and told I had a big nose. I can remember feeling unpopular and uncool.

Those little seeds that were planted in middle school and high school definitely stuck with me until my adult years. And those feelings left me feeling alone. I'm not gonna lie. It's amazing what the words people say can do inside your brain when you twist them and turn them into crazy thoughts. But it's been hard to shake off those lies from the enemy, because that's all they are.

The way kids talk to each other, it's a big deal. The way adults talk to each other, the things we say, it's a big deal. But kids, especially for some reason, don't understand the weight of their words. Other times I felt alone after a serious loss or a heartache. I'm gonna give you several different examples, not for sympathy, I don't need that. But I do want to hopefully...

Trigger someone who's listening to realize if you're going through something, you're not alone. Other people have been through what you have been through. Each situation is a little bit different, but they're all very similar. I can remember in high school having blowout friends, uh, blowout fights with friends. Um, that just totally devastated me. Um, a best friend, we even had like some racial misunderstanding, which was crazy. Um, just.

Fast forward after graduation. I got into a relationship with a man that I thought was godly driven hard -working honest leader only to find out after a lot of heartache that I was wrong. I just wanted someone to love me and I wanted to not be alone. So I wanted to feel needed and I wanted to feel wanted. So instead of being alone, I decided let's get married.

She was absolutely beautiful and I was totally crushed. I felt so alone through all that grief. It was hard for family and friends to even know what to say to comfort me because nothing really worked. The grief was so much to bear that I would cry myself to sleep. And I had this deep sense though through it all knowing God was with me and there was a reason I would see her again one day and it brought me peace.

Joshua 1:9 Be strong and of good courage. Do not be afraid nor be dismayed for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. I don't care where you're at right now. God is with you.

Romans 8: 31, If God is for you, who can be against you? I love that scripture. That, that is a battle cry for somebody.

Deuteronomy 31:8 The Lord Himself goes before you and will be with you. He will never leave you nor forsake you. You do not be afraid and do not be discouraged. I love that God is going before you. I love that He's been going before me and just there with me making things smooth.

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Episode 2 - You already have it inside of you.

The ability to start the new business, it's inside of you. The energy to carry out multiple tasks simultaneously, it's inside of you. The willpower to keep going when things are really, really hard, it's inside of you. The motivation to keep going when no one is there to push you.

It's inside of you. The determination to stick to those goals that you set and not give up and not let yourself down, it's inside of you. The creativity to create a new life, a new product, a new story and rewrite your life, it's inside of you. The strength to make it through the surgery and the diagnosis, it's inside of you.

The confidence to start something new or continue after you failed, to pick up the bat and swing again to create new content, to take another shot. It's inside of you. The encouraging word to lift up someone in the lowest place and motivate millions and to inspire a generation. It's inside of you.

The self-control to say no to the addicting habits, the poor food choices, the smokes, the drink, the wandering eye, the negative self-talk. It's inside of you, the forgiveness to the person who hurt you the most. It's inside of you. The joy that lights up your face, that lights up the room, that doesn't ever seem possible ever again.

It is deep inside of you. If you haven't felt it in a while, I promise it's there. That gratitude for every single thing that you have, even when the bank account is always low.

and there's always struggle, it's inside of you. The perseverance that gives you the ability to weather storms, keep a smile on your face. When you don't have a reason to smile at all, it gives you the ability to try one more time. It keeps you going when everything else is telling you to stop. That is deep inside of you. You have...

everything that you need and it is already inside of you. There's only one catch. You will have to risk something in order to access it. In order to access what's inside of you, there's risk. You're going to, number one, you're gonna risk comfort. There is no comfort in progress. You need to get very uncomfortable very quickly. Number two, pride.

You will have to admit that you don't know everything and you didn't do something right and you have to go after it again with everything that you are and there is still a chance you will fail. Number three, you are going to have to risk your time. It's going to take a lot of time to figure out exactly what actions are required to reach your goals. You will most likely fail multiple times like I have, like everyone has. And you have to be willing to fail over and over again before you become successful. And lastly, you will need to risk money. It's going to cost you money to get ahead. You can do things the slow way and figure it out on your own. But if you want to speed up your learning curve, you're going to need to pay someone who has mastered it to help you get results quicker, that is a coach, a mentor, an instructor, maybe it's a course you take. You have to make an investment and you have to be willing to take that risk. There is a way to have the life that you dream of. It is possible. You have to believe it. You have to speak it. You have to take action and you have to go do it.

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You Are Enough, Episode 1,

Did you wake up today unexcited, unmotivated, tired, worried, fearful, probably even depressed and anxious? The feeling of lack in your life has just gotten to be too much. You are literally a shell of the person that you used to be. You live your days forcing a smile and thinking about all that you've lost. You just don't have everything.

You see pictures posted on social media of friends and group gatherings that you're not a part of. The vacation, the new car, the new home, the cool clothes, and then you realize you don't have it. It's not happening for you. And you feel a sense of lack. There's no buzzer beater game winning shot for you. There's no sweet ride in the driveway.

No, there's no promotion at work. There's no big paycheck. Come on, you know we all want that big paycheck in the mail. There's no trip that you get to go on and take your family on. In fact, you actually just had to cancel it because the funds are not in the bank and it just isn't in the cards for you this year. You don't have money. You're not enough. That's all you hear. In fact, you woke up late and there's a new pimple on your face and you walk.

into your closet and it's the same old boring clothes. There's really no joy in the closet. What you do have though is you do have a message waiting on your phone for you from your spouse or your boss or your coach. Maybe it's your parent or a friend telling you somehow some way you screwed up again. You blew it. You're not enough and that is literally the only thing you can seem to hear day in and day out is I'm just not enough. I guess I'm a loser.

Stop it. Stop it right there! I reject that. That is a lie from the pit of hell. You are way more than enough and I want to tell you what God has to say about that.

Jeremiah 1:5 Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you.

Luke 12:7 The very hairs on your head are all numbered.

Job 33:4 The spirit of God has made me and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

I'm here to tell you the enemy of your soul, the devil, all he wants to do is steal your joy. He wants to steal your peace.

Proverbs 23 :7 as a man thinks so he is.

3 Ways to shift your focus and help when you slip into this train of thought.

1- Stack your proof.

Look back at the things that you have accomplished, the things that you have done, maybe the things that you've said that have really encouraged someone. Look back at those things. OK, maybe you can look back a week. You can look back a couple of years. .

2- Show Gratitude. Just be thankful for the things that you have. Be thankful for the roof over your head. Be thankful that the sun is out And your gratitude is the absolute key to transforming your whole entire perspective and your whole entire mentality.

3-Find Inspiring Music Music that inspires and lifts you up. I'm a big music person and I highly recommend there's so many great songs out there but one in particular that I can think of is Lauren Daigle. You say...

I highly recommend that song.

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