Give it to Em

Often times I laugh to myself because I think about the wildest things and you just look around and wonder who else in the room is thinking just as crazy..

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Forgiveness

Forgiveness is often seen in many different ways. You go about life thinking you know exactly what should or should not be forgiven. You go about life hurting from those who have done you wrong. That is how things work. People will transgress you and you, will transgress back even when you don’t know it. Now, is that just a matter of fact? 

I do not believe so. Everything in this life is a challenge. Everything is presented to you, and it is left in your hands to approach it. It is left in your hands to take what was given to you and make what you do from it. Nothing is predetermined. You were wronged so deeply by a friend, or a family member, and you know you are so upset at them you know you are so hurt by them you know they don’t deserve any of your time. But deep down you feel something, so deep, and you wonder what about that feeling? What about the feeling inside of me that just wants all of this to go away and not have any hatred, because all it is doing is hurting myself. There is a reason it is hurting yourself. So think about why that is. It may be because you are taking a feeling that was presented to you, and you are following the path many others may take in being angry, resentful and righteous to what you deserve. But what about what you owe yourself? Don’t you deserve peace and happiness? If you do not want to forgive or feel feelings of peace for the other person, do it for yourself. Do it for that feeling deep inside that lives within you and wants to tell you to do it this way, not that way. Do it because you can, and you have control over what you can and cannot do with your feelings. People forget how much control we have. The power is in your hands. Follow truth within yourself without the influence from outside. 

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Recipe to Staying awake from hours 9 am - 12:30 pm, Monday through Friday

Once eye's feel heavy, and cannot be opened willfully. It is time to begin step #1.

Step #1: Stand up, go for a walk down the hall, perhaps to the bathroom.

Step #2: If eyes remain heavy, give yourself something interesting to look at on the computer (i.e email, social media, online shopping). Just for a moment. Make the computer your friend.

Step #3: Eyes feel heavy, there may be a chemical imbalance. Go for a walk again, but this time come back with tongue teasers that will keep your body entertained. Candy, gum, chocolate, sour patch, make sure to have a sufficient supply.

(*Step 4 for extreme cases of tiredness*)

Step #4: No matter what you do, how much coffee you drank this morning, you just can't stay awake. If this step occurs, you need to take proactive measures on careful terms. You need to go for a long walk, a walk that isn't a step from the door, a walk that will get your blood flowing. On this walk you need to find a spot to do 15 jumping jacks, 5 push ups, and 5 squats. You must then look at your self in the mirror and say the words "There will be no more excuses, there are no more options, I am here, I am not leaving, and I must stay awake."

This recipe is tested and guaranteed to give you the wake up call you desperately need to get through those long 8 hours. Good luck!

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When you swear you got a good night’s sleep, but your body is desperately craving more

You woke up, hated life, grudged to the bathroom, and wished oh wished you did not have to go to work today. You may have even considered calling out because you swear you can feel a headache coming. But after a mental battle with yourself, you somehow are dressed, ready to go, coffee in hand and in the car on the way to your every day job, bright and early. Hey this isn’t all that bad after all.. 

9 am: Aah I have some time to ease into my work, I mean everybody just got here and needs that extra time to get well adjusted to their 180th day on the job right? Crucial time to adjust

9:30: Alright, finally getting some work flow going, woo its going to be a good productive day I can feel it. 

10 am: Alright, one hour down this 8 hour day won’t be all that bad. 

10:30: I’ve only been at work for an hour and half? Damn how am I supposed to do this for another 7 hours. All I can think about is the bed I left this morning and how warm and comfy my blankets were.. 

10:35: Still have an hour and a half til lunch, but I just can’t keep looking at this screen.. what if I just closed my eyes for a minute just a minute. 

10:39: Okay, how do I make it look like I’m typing but I’m actually sleeping.

10:40: Okay, I can’t do this.. I just can’t! This is torture! What the eff do they put in caffeine these days, this shit don’t work. I need to go home right now and get some rest it is the only logical thing I can do at this point... 

STOP 

Before you freak out, and think there is no solution to this horrible cycle of sleepiness. There are very productive and helpful steps you can take to improve this time. There is a cycle, you must follow in order. And it will give you the recipe to the dark morning hours of needing sleep. 

See next post. 

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How to continue doing things after 1 week.

So you decided to pick up a new hobby to better yourself; say writing in your journal, stretching in the morning, hitting the gym after work. But you constantly ask yourself why you just can’t stick with it. You’ll go so strong for those couple of days but after sometime you just find your life is too damn busy to keep up with it. Your life, in most cases, is never going to be as stable and structured as you wish or thought it would be. There are always going to be things that come up and change your daily schedule.

This is my advice:

Stop thinking of time. Stop looking at things in chronological order. Time is an idea not a fact, we use it, but it does not define your life. You do not need to journal every chronological thought writing down every memory that has happened to you. Just get in there and write some words down whenever you think of it. You may not be able to stretch every morning so don’t tell yourself to only do so. Stretch whenever you think of it, don’t think of it later in the day and be like “oh I didn’t stretch this morning, I’ll have to start it again tomorrow.” No. When you think that thought get right down and start stretching! When you don’t think you can make it to and back from the gym in 1 hour, take that 20 minutes you just spent thinking about it and go for a run, do some push ups. This will give you that precious consistency you yearn for. Effect your today. Not tomorrow. And then when tomorrow comes, make it your today. What you do today will stick with you.

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Welcome to a blog of advice, ideas, and just plain out food for thought

The curiosity of this world and all that goes. Ya girl has too many ideas that run through her head every day that need to be shared with the average eye. Also I’m about to go batshit crazy if I keep all this in. Often times I laugh to myself because I think about the wildest things and you just look around and wonder who else in the room is doing the same. Either way you can read what I have to say, or not.. welcome to the mind of Emma, a blog to just “give it to ‘em” ;)