If anything in my 46 years on this earth I have learned, it’s that life…can change in one mother fucking instant.
Your entire world can turn upside down or right side up as quickly as the next breath you take.
However, either way it goes your perspective and mindset is crucial for survival. On everything I am that is the truth.
To date my oldest daughter Serenity and I have lost a combine total weight of 186 pounds. (please clap and scream excitedly here 😉 ) Was it easy? Hell no. We’re talking losing WEIGHT. My God we all know DEATH is easier than losing FAT. (can I get an “AMEN” from the obese section in life please?) When I first started walking to the corner store I thought the distance was equivalent to the forty years the children of Israel wandered in the desert. Later in the months I realized it was actually 12 minutes. Now? I make that skip in 4 1/2 🙂 The words to tell each other where we’re going have even changed. The conversation and negotiations of who’s making the walk to get the milk have all ceased and faded with the fat surrounding our hearts (can I say that?)  From “Ugh…headed down to the store…” to “Hey, running over to the store right quick, you need anything?” from “PLEASE go to the store for me, pleeeeease? I’ll get you a drink?” HAHAHA! to “I’m running over to the store” “Oh I need to go there, I’ll walk with you…” MINDSET: It’s no longer a hike to run to the corner store.
Our perspectives are so different. How we look at something and analyze what it is or should be, haha The complaining the whole walk back or to even look at the walk to the store as a walk. Let me explain. Walking to the store is a must if we want or need something. It takes 20 minutes to walk to the store (by the way, at one time it was 45min) and about 25 minutes back depending on the amount and weight of the groceries we’re carrying. The perspective is that isn’t a walk. ren and I will go the corner store and grocery store three to four times a day but we STILL get our WALK in during the week. Taking six to eight mile walks, pumping the kick ass music on our Spotify as we kick the fat away from our heart and make our weight loss an adventure. No time frames for goals just a lifestyle change (I know it sounds typical) but the second Ren and I decided to purge and clean our mindsets, our perspective in how we look at EVERYTHING in life (not just our weight) it became easier and easier to the point we no longer have a “snack cabinet.” (I know half of you just gasped for air!) We haven’t used the term “sweet tooth” in our home in MONTHS.
Prophet Mark Kenny and I were going somewhere and when he told me where I said “Oh that’s not that far…” and he laughed and said “you don’t think that because you walk everywhere.” Those words totally stuck in my head man. It’s not about the distance or even the walk. It’s about where I need to go and I get there. There is no “UUUUGH…” Yes you get tired you wanna quit at times all the above. But at the end of the day man this IS about you. Your life. How will you smash your demons and defeat the monsters you’ve hidden? Anything you are afraid to conquer and overcome  is always because of something negative or a demonic “what if.” Change your attitude and GO. Rejection, jealousy, fear, contentment…those are ALL negative. When I take the bus to work. Especially if its real cold outside or raining. It never matters if it’s just me or a crowd of us standing there. We always, ALWAYS will look and stare and anticipate the buses arrival. We all KNOW it’s coming. The bus is very consistent. Yet every single day we’ll look out for it. When it’s in our very sight some people will get their passes out, money prepared ect., Some of us will walk towards the curb, getting ready to step on…we all start preparing ourselves. Nobody just stands there and stays right in the same spot when they see the bus. It may have a few lights to go through before getting to where we need picked up but just the same…we get ready. 
We need to “get ready” in life. To start deciding how we are going to vibe and spread kindness like its money.  Change our perspectives and mindset to positives and life changing words of encouragement to ourselves! We won’t always have control over life. It plays by its own rules and most the time those rules are fucked up and changed on a daily without notice. But we DO have control over how we’re going to look at what we’re facing. What the plan is to go straight the hell through it as if we’re a football player running onto the damn field with determination and mindset to win. How are you looking at what is haunting you today? Don’t ever fall into contentment. You’ll get comfy in that fear and that’s the ultimate bullshit you can do to yourself and who you know you’re supposed to be gangsta 😉 Get up, face that shit. Change your lifestyle in how you look at absolutely everything and live for going forward. Never stop getting to where you want and know you need to be.  One day, you’ll wake up and you’ll realize what once seemed like FOREVER was just a skip away and it WILL get easier, even if it seems to take a while to get better 😉

Selah….
CHERyL