The Truth...Because of You I am Who I am

As most of you know I have had my share of struggles in my life from childhood through adolescents…through today…

Life is definitely full of ups and downs

My life today is amazing….at this very moment I feel so much love for myself and for others…for my life...for the people in my life

I have been waking up every morning...in awe of how grateful I am to have this life of mine...

What I know works for me and how I got to this place..........

Opening my eyes to all the love and blessings in front of me...

Leaning on my inner strength and trailer park fighting mentality to not give up

Calling on my God and my faith

Reaching out to my friends-I wish I could list you all and tell you how much I love you and how thankful I am that you were and some of you are still in my life…how important you all are to me...

Loving my kids-who have witnessed my struggles, failures and my successes and who have loved me unconditionally

Listening to my teachers and mentors-from the formal teacher to my friend who has no home...the lessons I learn everyday...invaluable

Understanding how grateful I am to have you all in my life

To everyone who held me up when I couldn’t hold myself, who loved me until I could love myself, who dried my tears, who laughed with me, who cried with me, who listened to me rant and rave…who never gave up on me, who believed in me….

I take none of you for granted and you are loved

If I haven’t told you lately…

Thank you so much for being a part of my life…

I am who I am today because of you…each and every one of you...

Keeping it Real with Dr. Mary G

It Isn't Rocket Science

Is life simple and you complicated?

I don’t understand why people would rather live complicated rather than simple lives….

Love

Simple in my mind

Do it!

Love yourself and love others and the simplest thing is let others love you….accept love and believe in it….it is real….you are worthy of being loved; don’t fight it; don’t discount it; embrace it…

The more people that love me the better

Love and let love

Work

Simple in my mind

Do it!

Work to live, don’t live to work

What is complicated about this?

If you hate what you do then think about changing it; don’t give up and resign to a work life of misery

Work isn’t everything in life; work doesn’t define you as a person

Helping Others

Simple in my mind

Do it!

Look around and see what is happening in the lives of others. If they need help and you have the capacity to help then stop being selfish and do something for someone else

If you can’t feed the world…feed one person…you get the idea

Life

Simple in my mind

Do it!

You only have one here on this earth and it is short and it is fragile and it can change in an instant

What would you regret or be sad about if it ended at this moment?

Let that guide you and everything you do

LOVE life, WORK in a job you like and fulfills you, HELP OTHERS every single day of your life, LIVE today because everything could be different tomorrow

It is Simple

Do it

Keeping it Real with Dr. Mary G

Don't Eat the Cookies in the Cookie Jar

Dating to me lately has been like eating stale cookies.

A little about me

 I love to work out and stay fit. Occasionally, actually very rarely anymore, I diet

I don’t like to diet because I work out hard and feel like as long as I work out I can maintain my current look and indulge once in a while….

Anyway, Occasionally I get it in my head that I need to be skinner so I start cutting out things from my diet. Usually the good stuff like cakes, chips, cookies…etc…

During those times I eliminate all of that stuff from my house so I am not tempted. I strip it down bare…

Inevitably I start to crave it at some point during the “diet”

I start thinking about it, telling myself I need it, crave it…want it…until I breakdown and go scavenging through my bare cupboards…

I usually find a box of stale cookies…I have fantasized about what they will taste like, I can barely wait to eat one…I open the package like a mad woman and shove a few in my mouth…chew..chew…done

Then what

Oh my God!!! Was that it…I wasted all that emotion and energy and calories on stale cookies

After the episode I feel bad…I wish I hadn’t eaten them and I realize it wasn’t what I wanted after all

What  I really wanted was a carton of “anything but” by Ben and Jerry’s covered with Mrs. Richardson’s hot fudge sauce (piping hot from the micro) or RazzleBerry Pie with Vanilla Ice Cream

Why didn’t I get that and really enjoy myself

Well because I was too lazy and too impatient to go to the store

I wanted something sweet immediately

I wasn’t willing to wait, to plan and to be patient

For me it doesn’t have to do with splurging or not, it has to do with me knowing what I want but not being patient in the process…

I have dated stale cookies since I have been single…their shelf life long expired

Just because something is easy and convenient doesn’t mean that it is right, it doesn’t mean I want it, doesn’t mean I have to settle for it

 Just because a cookie is in the cookie jar it doesn’t mean it is suitable to eat

Waiting for a good dessert is much better then settling for a dried up old stale cookie

Keeping it Real with Dr. Mary G