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Taste the VICTORY

I’ve faced these stairs many times.

Standing at the bottom looking up was so intimidating that I stopped looking at the top and just focused on the next step.

When I found myself standing on the top step, I gave myself a moment to recover, rewarding myself with the mind blowing view and the fresh, clean air.

Then I took a deep breathe, and on my journey back down the stairs I prepared my mind and acidified leg muscles for the upcoming ascend.

When I first tackled these ECU stadium stairs, I barely made it to the top. I arrived literally gasping for air, feeling suffocated. Although I’d arrived at the top, the way I felt, was a harsh reminder that I lacked stamina. I found myself standing at the top of the stadium, not focusing on the view, not celebrated my demonstration of endurance or the WIN. I stood on this mountain top translating each gasp as weakness and defeat.

So what did I do?

❇️I STOPPED looking at my children racing up those stairs as if they were running on flat land.

❇️I HONORED and shared my feelings of defeat with a trusted accountability partner (climbing alongside of me) who gracefully checked me.

❇️I DECIDED to climb every stairwell I saw, everywhere I went.

I didn’t hide from or avoid the stairs, I returned and climbed AGAIN, and AGAIN, and AGAIN! Until yesterday, I reached the top of the stairs and as my legs went numb, I looked up, admired the beautiful scenery and realized, THIS TIME, I AM NOT GASPING FOR AIR! I inhaled all of that fresh air and smiled all the way back to the base of the stairs!

❓What do you need to stop looking at?
❓Who are you accountable to/safe with?
❓What decision will you make to reach that top step?

Sometimes you can’t focus on the top stair. In these moments you stand at the bottom and figure out how to tackle the NEXT step, then the next. Before you know it, you’ll be standing on the top step victoriously, breathing just fine!

💞Gwen
MISFIT2MAJORFIT.COM

The Life I Chose .. The Reality I Embraced

😳 👌🏾💪🏾✊🏽
GOOD STUFF!

💕I love what I’m call to do
💕I love those that I’m called to serve

I am also:

✔️Painfully aware of my needs and desires.
✔️Consistently working towards understanding where and when to set boundaries in my life.
✔️ Constantly praying, learning, and growing.
✔️ Always recognizing my own read flags and pushing myself to ask for help when needed.
✔️Always Dreaming.
✔️Still pressing.
✔️Facing and overcoming my fears daily.
✔️Forever seeking, honoring, and listening to wisdom.
✔️Choosing to go, try, and do, even if I have to do it alone!

I haven’t always been strong enough, but I’m happy to announce that today, I make small decisions to choose me daily!

When I look back over my life, I want to say, I did it, I tried it, I felt it, I experienced it! When I knew better, I did better.

I settled for nothing!

I have NO REGRETS!

I offer these same sentiments to you!
May this Thursday be the beginning of your Transformation! It only takes one small decision to choose you!

#YOUMatter

#It’sOKtoChooseYOU!

#TransformationalThursday

💕Gwen
Misfit2Majorfit.com

Tips to Successful Boundary Setting

Setting boundaries isn’t easy but it’s necessary for healthy relationships.

Here are a few tips for setting clear boundaries:

1) Decide what your needs are. Inventory moments in your relationships that make you uncomfortable or unhappy. In order to clearly communicate a boundary you must first be clear on your needs.

2) Make an “I wish” list. As your completing step one, consider every time you’ve thought, “I wish they wouldn’t do __.” Write it out so you can see it.

3) Turn each “I wish they wouldn’t” statement into a boundary. Your next column/section should read, “when they do , I will say in love.”

4) Now that you’ve got a clear strategy, it’s time to put it into action. When sharing your boundaries, Speak the truth in love, in the right space, at the right time. Also remember that this is new, you are changing not the other party. In the past you’ve allowed these patterns and behaviors to persist. Always allow grace and if necessary, space as you both grow in clarity, respect, and peace.

Gwendolynjjones.com

Birthdays MATTER

I’m so very excited to announce that IT IS ALMOST MY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!

A wise lady once said, “It’s good to be born, and even better to be born again!” I recieved every word and I’m ready to celebrate the life God has so graciously gifted me with!

Every day is a unique gift, a special blessing. However, a birthday is the day designated to confirm and affirm that when I look back over my life, and I think things over, I can truly say that I’ve been blessed I’ve got a testimony! A story that’s still being written, a life that’s still worth living and exploring, a purpose that’s still manifesting, a message that still needs to be heard
and a Mommy that chose a life of sacrifice, just for me. I always celebrate her as I celebrate me, she now lives in and through me!

A birthday is a day to rest, receive, refuel and recover. It’s friendly reminder to continue to be the me that God created me to be because I was carefully crafted and I am BeYOUtifully Made and that’s totally worth Celebrating!

So get your photos and your kind words ready, I want them all! FILL ME UP!!

The count down is on!!!

Year 3️⃣9️⃣ I’m curious about you! I sense that you hold many exciting new things for me! Let’s GROW!

SHOW UP FOR YOU!

Keep showing up for YOURSELF, whether you feel it or not, even if you’re afraid.

One day YOU will arrive, you’ll show up and you won’t be afraid anymore, you’ll no longer simply say “this is the reason I exist”, you’ll FEEL IT in every fiber of your being.

That day, in that moment, when terrified, low self confidence, approval seeking self MEETS comfortable, confident, I WAS CREATED ON PURPOSE FOR A PURPOSE AND I FINALLY BELIEVE THAT I AM ENOUGH SELF ..

My friend this is the moment when YOU, your best self in your original form has arrived just as you were fearfully and wonderfully designed to!

It will happen, but only if you keep showing up every day FOR YOU, even when/if no one else does, you have to! Why, because it’s so much bigger than you! There is a huge puzzle to which your piece is required to complete.

YOU MATTER!
YOU CAN!
YOU WILL!

WE MUST! 🤟🏾✊🏽

“And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.”
-Galatians 6:9 KJV

Gwen

Misft2majorfit.com