The Shift

Dear Inspirations,

At this exact moment... everything is good. 

It's Monday and I am full of energy. I am positive. I am hopeful. 

I feel as though there will be a shift this week. 

I feel like a mountain will be moved. 

Have you ever felt like that? Maybe it's just me. 

Its a beautiful thing when you  can feel the shift before it happens. 

If you are ever able to feel the shift it's usually right after a storm or a test. 

You feel calm as if things have already been worked out in your favor. 

You feel like you've already won a battle that you've been fighting. 

I believe in that. 

I can hear God. 

I can literally feel his presence. 

Thing start to happen when you decide that you will not allow negative energy into your life. 

That's where I am right now. Why put up with negativity? 

Now I am not saying that I am positive every single day of my life. 

What I am saying is that I wake up every morning with the intentions of having a good day. 

After reading The Rhythm of life, I decide that I am going to make the most of each day.

I choose to have glitter for breakfast and shine all day honey. 

I choose to stand in the sun and let the shadows fall behind me. 

This is defined as the shift.

Let's shift together. 

Until we meet again
DearJasmineP

Not next, NOW

Dear Inspirations,

Happy New Year! I'm sure we are all secretly feeling like "New year New me". I wanted to write some long caption on FaceBook about how 2016 tried to take me out, but instead I will share it here.

2016 was a year of learning, growth, maturity, inspiration, fear, depression, and many other things. I can say that it truly tested my patience, my faith in God and my strength as a person. I mean let's face a lot happened in my life last year. I became a mom. I became a wife. I also finished school.

Someone asked me just the other day "how did you do it all"? I had to stop and think about that question. It was all GOD. There were days in 2016 that I didn't know if I was going to make it through. See the thing is there are a lot of things that I don't share. There are a handful of people in this world that know my story.

Not that I am a shamed of them it's just some things I choose to leave out. So when you say 2016 was a rough year for you I can relate. However, I made it through. When you look at my pictures on social media you wouldn't know that I was laid off from my job, you wouldn't know that I was fighting depression. You wouldn't know that I was stressed out trying to balance all of the things I had going on. You wouldn't know that I was learning how to be a mom and a wife all at the same time.

2016 tested my FAITH in God, but I know God is real because I'm still here.
I'm glad that year is behind me and I can walk into 2017 with my head up high.
I know that God took me through 2016 to show me that he is yet God.
I believe that he will give me everything I prayed for.
But wait.... a lot of the things I prayed for in 2013, 2014, 2015 he's already blessed me with.

I remember praying for God to send me a husband.
I remember praying for God to bless me with a new car.
I remember praying for God to bless me with a child.
I remember praying for God to help me move into my own apartment.
I asked God to help me complete my masters.

Those things have already come to past! So, again I know that God will give me favor.
2016 was a year of progress and success.
It might not have felt good, but we made it through.

2017, Will not be a new year, new me... It will be a new year, better me.
I'm walking through doors,
I'm going to believe that I deserve everything that I have already prayed for.

My blessings have already started pouring in.
One of my good friends reminded me that Now is my time. Not next, but NOW.

So inspirations, I challenge you to believe.
I challenge you to start right where you are and make a change in your life.

I believe you can.

I am going to write more. I have to.

Until next time,

DearJasmineP 

Grad Chapter: Honest moment

Dear Inspirations,

As of December 10th 2016, I am officially done with graduate school. (Inserts a fist pump) I am free from school!! I've graduated once again and this time it was different. I remember how amazing and stress free it was to graduate for the first time. There was so much adrenaline pumping and I looked at the world as a ocean. I was ready to take the world by storm.

Fast forward four years.... I'm married, I'm a mom and I guess you could say the world feels different.

Saturday felt amazing don't get me wrong. BUT the feeling was different. I felt a sense of pride, joy and true completion. I am the first one in my family mom and dad side to go to college. I was the first one to get my bachelors and currently the only one. I was also the first one to get my masters. I'm not saying this to brag. I'm saying this because I feel extremely grateful. Undergraduate I felt like I did it for my dad and my sisters. Graduate school was for me. I started the program single, but I ended it married and with a son.
So much growth as a woman.

Time flies and life does not wait for you to get ready!

Even though I graduated Saturday.... I am yet unemployed at this exact moment. (just typing that makes me cringe)
Despite being unemployed.. I know that greater is coming. I tell myself this daily and some days are harder to believe than others.
I will be the first to say that its very hard when it seems like nothing is looking up.

I'll be real honest and say that.. the weeks leading up to graduation I felt hopeless, discouraged, and really down and out. Everyone was asking "How do you feel are you excited?" I had to fake it.
I was having a hard time looking at graduation as an accomplishment, because of my current job situation.

I was trying really hard to shake it. I was having a inner battle.  I have those moments all the time. I try really hard not to let it effect my personal life, but it does.

I'm working on that as a person.

I know in months to come things might get tough, but I also believe that God will make a way.
He always does. Some how I'm always okay.

I believe in God.

I have some amazing people in my life that don't let me beat myself up.
I have real friends in my corner rooting for me.
I have a wonderful husband and a son who loves me dearly. Not for what I have, but for who I am.
Because of those things I must go on.

I closed yet another chapter of my life.
It's time for a new one.

Only God knows what's next for me. Whatever it is I AM READY.
I'm going to focus in and get ready for my blessings.

This blog is for me as a reminder of where I am in my life. It is also for you.
If you feel like giving up... DON'T
If you feel like you aren't standing in the right place... YOU ARE
If you feel like you should stand on faith and do something else ...DO IT
If you feel like you are struggling and no one knows how you feel... I DO
If you feel like things won't get better... THEY WILL

Until next time

DearJasmineP

She's a GOAL digger

“I’m going to get my life together”.

You know there is an app for that.

No, there isn’t an app for that, but imagine if there was!

Geesh, looking at my goal list for 2016… and if I am being truthful I must say I slacked all year.

Goals are always great to have, but what’s a goal with no plan of execution?  

It’s just words with no real meaning.

Life has a funny way of making you feel like you’re not where you need to be.

 

Looking at my goal list makes me feel like I failed myself.

“Jasmine, you had 365 days to complete your goals what happen?”

Looking at it again makes me feel like I lied to myself all year.

But the truth of the matter is “Life happens”

 

I knew when I set some of those goals it would be almost impossible or very hard to complete.

Some of them were  just outlandish. “Loose 100 lbs”

I mean I know that might sound doable to some people, but for most of the year I was pregnant so.. (go figure).

 

We never think about all of the goals we did accomplish though.

One of my 2016 goals was to get married (DONE)

Move into a bigger space (DONE)

Graduate with my MPA (in the works 12.10.16)

DearJasmineP  an official doing business name (DONE)

Get closer to God (ongoing goal)

 

See I wasn’t on social media the whole year. I was out in the streets making things happen (lol)

 

Speaking of social media... I think this is the root to not completing goals.

In efforts to get my life together I am slowly going to be taking big breaks from social media. This week I deleted my Twitter app.

I replaced it with a productive app. (Water reminding app).

Social media is a silent GOAL KILLER.

Yea, I said it.

Think about how much time we spend being noisy... (I'm included).
I'm going to work on cutting back.

 

My friends and I have been talking about getting our life together for 2017!

I am with that movement man!

That’s one thing about the people in my circle they keep me inspired, motivated, and constantly laughing.

Shout to “The Girls”

 

I am going to get things in line.

 

This blog is just a small reminder that life is going to happen and sometimes it won’t be in your control.

Just because you didn’t meet all of your 2016 goals doesn’t mean you failed.

2016 taught me that in order to reach a goal one must have a TRUE plan of execution.

Not just scribbled words on a note pad. A true plan of action.

 

This one is for those goal diggers! Let’s set those goals and make it happen!

Let's hold each other accountable for making 2017 a better year.

Set goals. Make a plan. Execute. (in that order).

 

#gettingmylife2017

#goaldigging

#newlifewhodis

 

 

 

Time is priceless

Dear Inspirations, 

Time is the one thing that seems like we don't have enough of. 

How could this be true when we have 24 hours in a day? 

I ask myself am I using my time wisely? 

No. I'm guilty of using my extra time to surf social media, looking at snapchat,  to dig into the celebrity gossip, to send memes to my friends, and looking at the explore page on Instagram. 

Hey, I'm just being honest. 

Each week I'm telling myself "Jasmine you need to be more productive" but each week I fall short. 

Think about the countless hours we waste. 

Rome wasn't built in a day... but I'm sure if they were taking social media breaks in between building it would have never been built. 

Would Beyoncé and Oprah still be the same people if they weren't using their time wisely? 

This is personal but I'm sharing to remember this moment. 

I am going to do better with my time, before time runs out. After all time is priceless and once it's gone... Welp you know the rest.

How will you use your time wisely?

Until next time, 

Jasmine P. 

Because God works

Dear Inspirations, 

Why is it that when we are going through we have a hard time believing it's going to work out? 

It's not until after its worked out that we are able to relax and rejoice in what God has done for us. 

I don't want to be that person that's worried that God won't answer my prayers. In the midst of my test and in the midst of my storm I want to already be rejoicing that he has brought me out. 

I want to be so rooted in God that my faith lets me see it already worked out. 

I want it to become such a routine where I don't have to worry. 

Why can't we trust God? When our whole world is upside down, we must believe that he will fix it.

To many times as humans we sit and wonder "how am I going to make it, how will I get through this" 

Today I remind you that God has already worked it. Your life is going as planned. God has heard your cry. God has heard your prayer. No matter what the situation is.. Know that God has went ahead and answered. It's all in a matter of timing. We ask for so much and sometimes he just wants us to be patient. 

Will you believe God today? 

Will you believe that your blessing is just  on the other side of that test? 

Yes it might be hard and we might not want to go through it, but believe that it's already done! 

Happy Monday! 

The need for change

Dear Inspirations, 

"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic, for which it stands one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all"

We recited this pledge everyday in school but now does it mean anything? 

I want to believe it still means everything. 

I want to believe that America is still the best place to live.

"The land of the free and the home of the brave" 

This is what America stands for right? 

Or at least this is what they wanted us to believe. 

Honestly, right now I'm having a hard time believing that. 

We've experienced so much crime, so many innocent people being killed and so much hate.

Why so much? Haven't we endured enough? 

I feel like we've been setback a few decades where violence was the only option. 

I feel like some are just creating a reason to shoot. 

We are experiencing so many violent killings. I'm not just talking about black lives I'm talking about all lives. 

It's sad how you can't even go to a church without the possibility of being shot. 

You can't go to the club, you can't go to the movies and you sure can't be driving around without the possibility of being shot. 

America has became a scary place to live.

It's become a war zone. 

It's become a place where there is no justice and there is no peace. 

Growing up they taught us that America was where everyone wanted to come. 

America the land of dreams.

America the place where you could be free. 

Yet today it seems as though America isn't really free at all. 

Everyone wants to make it JUST about race.

This isn't just about race, it's about everything.

It's about hate, it's about injustice, it's about everything. 

There's a serious need for change. 

There are issues that need to be addressed. 

No one wants to talk about it. 

Today I write to you in hopes that you will be apart of the change. That you will not only become  aware but also conscious of what is happening around you. That you will do something. That you will stand up and be apart of change. 

As Biggie  once said "we can't change the world unless we change ourselves" 

Until we meet again

DearJasmineP