Confidence is hard to obtain on a daily basis, let alone to hold on to. I recognize how important it is to have confidence flowing through my veins to be the best that I can be. As Bobby Jones once said, the 5.5 inches between your ears has to be in the right place!…
As I make my way through each week of life, I have many takeaways. I like to write them down and think about what I have learned and have experienced so that I can apply it going forward. This week, my main takeaways were these: Being busy is good, but sometimes you need rest. Try…
The idea of "New Year, New Me" is living in the minds of many as the calendar shifts to a new year: 2019. I am in this mindset, but I don't need a "new" me. I need a "better" me. I don't want to change who I am. I want to be better at who…
These last few days have been tough. Tougher than any of us would know about two weeks ago. Recently, my maternal grandfather (who I called "Papa"), George Wesley Nelson, had a few medical procedures, and his 87-year-old body just didn't recover properly and developed pneumonia that would be the final blow he could possibly take.…
Sometimes it seems like the more effort I put into things, it somehow manages to just get worse. I try so hard to make something happen and put a lot of care into it and it just comes out like garbage. Sometimes it's my fault, sometimes it's the fault of things I can't control. But…
At a recent counseling session, my counselor and I discussed being mindful. Being mindful entails being aware of where your mind is at and what to do once you figure out where it is. As someone who reflects often on my life, my thoughts, and my actions, I constantly find myself in the mindset of…
It's so funny how when I am sad, I listen to sad songs to cope with sadness. Probably ineffective, but it's what I do. The song of choice tonight is "Call Me" by Nav. The lyrics that hit the hardest are these: "Do you know how it feels to feel alone?... Bought myself a…
Over the weekend, I was watching a movie called "The Truman Show". I started to feel a lot of anxiety and I felt bad for the main character. The movie is about a man who is living his life inside a TV show, and everyone knows it's a TV show, except for him. I felt…
I am currently reading a book titled "Everybody Always" by Bob Goff. The subtitle is "Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People". That subtitle drew me into this book (besides it being recommended by a friend) because as someone who is a people pleaser, I want to be able to become…
Fear is something that strikes and holds back people everywhere. Fear makes me so mad. Fear sucks. Living out of fear, at its best, gets you nowhere. In most cases for me, it sets me back. When I am on the golf course, every time I hit a shot that I am scared to hit,…
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