Life Experiences – JZANVybz

DO NOT DARE NOT TO DARE

2021 – Year of the Ox, according to the Chinese Lunar New Year Day it is started from February 12^th 2021 and lasting until January 31, 2022.

Let us all leave behind the sad memories, hopeful moments and chaos experiences of 2020.

The world has been changing and greatly challenging 2020 for many of us which is for me it is the year of sadness, depression, anxiety, unhopeful future due to the effect of corona virus pandemic and the year that we lost. As we look back we have a lot of plans that didn’t happen due to this epidemic (lockdown, staying at home, can’t go out, loss jobs, income, and enormous loss of human lives – family members was sick and lost due to COVID19 virus, friends, neighbors and others).

The year has been changed and can live the “new normal” way but still we don’t have the assurance that this 2021 will give us good results of good life and good future. It is up to us to take actions to change for the better. Everything is all depends in our hands. We need to do something to make our life productive and something that will change us for the better (change starts within ourselves). Build enough courage to something that we will benefit for the future. Move forward and don’t afraid to face all the consequences that we will encounter in the rough roads in life.

What we think determines what happens to us so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds. – Wayne Dyer

Life must go on and be brave. If you really want change, believe in your own self that you can do something more than what you did before. If it didn’t work, then look for other options. Sometimes you feel stuck but it doesn’t mean that it is the end. You are not the only one feel this way. You are not alone. It is never too late for a new beginning you just need to dare yourself to do something which requires a lot of courage to continue moving despite of obstacles along the way. Do not look back. Use those bad experiences you had in the past that will help you to be more creative and will lead to a new directions and path for a good future.

The good lessons taught by 2020 will help us to push harder for a fresh start. Learn to value small things. Let go of negative beliefs, attitudes and habits that will make you weak and give disappointments to pursue your dreams/goals.

The most important thing is to guard our mental and physical health. We cannot do the things we want to do if we are mentally sick and physically weak. As the saying goes health is wealth. Our emotions and body’s reactions are triggered by our thoughts.

Life is hard but we need to take good care our most precious wealth – our mental health which follows our physical health because our mentality defines our physical circumstances. Convert our negative thoughts and self – image into positive ones if we want to have a successful life and lived a happily ever after (haha! Positive vibes only).

Study shows that we have a neural pathway in our brain which transmit information and forms thoughts negatively/positively. Different people have different approach to their environment. Repeated thoughts over and over again will definitely become true. Our thoughts are just like a magnet. If we always think of problems and obstacles, then worry a lot the result will be negative. Stop wasting time doing things that don’t benefit you.

“Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts
– Napoleon Hill

In order to guard our mental health, we need to design our thoughts to survive in this cruel world not only in this pandemic time but to the ups and downs in life and environmental collapse. Change our thoughts and life would start to change.

“Your mind is like a magnet …If you think of Blessings, you attract Blessings and if you think of problems, you attract problems. Always cultivate good thoughts and always remain positive and optimistic.” – Unknown

All of us are always been affected and defeated by our everyday problems and difficulties in life. We should not permit those obstacles to control our mind because this will lead us to a negative thought, disappointments and doubts. In order to become a person of value and cultivate positive environment, we need to have personal development and improvement on outlook in life. Always think positive and believe in our self that we can do all things and have the abilities to create something new for the better. Make our life excited each and every moment. Don’t mind what will others say and think, at the end of the day our happiness inside matters.

If we feel shattered, just breath, refocus and pray. Life is hard sometimes and things crashing down – seem we can’t pick ourselves up. We feel hopeless and helpless. We just need to slowdown and gasp some fresh air to breath. Change our environment and make some life changing adjustments in order to get yourself back – try again to start a new track. Refocus on the life that we want to achieve. Life is scary and new beginnings can be confusing but as we move forward we can discover new things that will help us to refocus on that new path and it will guide us along the way. Don’t give up and forget what is gone, learn to appreciate what is still remain and look forward to what is coming next on achieving what you desire. Pray humbly to God daily and he will give a positive and fresh insights on our daily activities and it is the greatest power in solving our personal problems. Believe. Affirm.

Luke 17:21 “The kingdom of God is within you”.

Philippians 4:13 “I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me” .

Roman’s 8:31 “If God be for us, who can be against us? “.

In every ups and downs in life we can choose to react and respond on the choices we made – it can be good or bad. If choices won’t work out, then we can always try again. Be braver to take some risks. Just move forward and not backward. Remember that we don’t need to stand out in a crowd, what matters most is value our self and enjoy every second of our life. It’s not all about money, wealth, fame and power can define the amount of every individuals happiness.

According to your faith be it unto you.-Mathew 9:29

According to the Father of Positive Thinking Normal Vincent Peale, the secret of a better and more successful life is to cast out those old, dead, unhealthy thoughts. Substitute for them new, vital, dynamic faith thoughts. You can depend upon it- an inflow of new thought will remake you and your life.

So,do not dare not to dare.

Dare to be there!

Speed of Life

I just finished watching a movie from the novel “Life at These Speeds” by Jeremy Jackson. I was inspired to write something about it during this pandemic COVID19 because it really amazed me on how this high school athlete conquer his disastrous/traumatic experience and on how he overcome the dramatic loss in his life……

Traumatic experiences are like scars that causes difficulties in life but sometimes it leads to a new beginning.

I really can’t imagine life during this Corana Virus pandemic. Still waiting for the vaccines to come out so everyone will move forward in life in a normal way.(I know vaccines are not really the cure on these COVID19 Virus).

I know that life now during these Covid19 is not much related on the movie but I was just motivated to write about my experiences during this pandemic.

It is so hard in every individual to adjust in this kind of life (in this new normal thing). Most of us are stuck, no income and still confused on how to start all over again. For me, it is really a stressful and distressing experience I ever had in my entire life. I lost everything I had during this hard time. Business have been closed and source of income here in my place right now is so hard.

Because of the losses we experienced, speed of life now becomes slow due to C19 and here’s another UK’s new COVID 19 strain, most of us are struggling with life especially to those individual who had a hard time to cope with these kind of situation makes us depressed and hopeful.

Currently living in a rural area here in Philippines and it really needs a lot of adjustments (been living here almost 8 months already). Just missing the fast paced of life in the city. Moving to the province is really unexpected.

Some people say that simple living is better…… Yes, I want to live in a simple life but I just realized that simple living is not really simple. Just like cutting back some regularly and a hectic lifestyle like reducing consumption, simple diet like buying local products, growing your own food and starting being more self-sufficient, focusing on what is available around and doing some stuff that you really don’t like to do just like cooking on woods (need to cut woods or get some twigs and do some fire — it is so hard because I’m not good on putting fire on it ha-ha! It’s a good experience though – good to be a girl scout in my elementary days). Another thing is when you want to take a bath, you need to do the old ways. No shower. You take a bucket (timba/balde in tagalog) and put water on it, use a dipper or pitcher (tabo in tagalog) to have a bath.

Living in the city always make me active and I don’t even have enough sleep. I always make myself busy but as a reward, I give myself a treat now and then. I always move and travel whenever I can to overwhelm my feeling even in the busiest days.

Now, living in the province is okay avoiding too much traffic and very noisy city but sometimes I really missed my pre-pandemic life in the city. I’m making myself busy here but it’s not easy to do the things that you never did before. As of now I’m slowly accepting the fact that we don’t always get what we want in life.

Days, weeks and months passed, slow paced of life in the province makes me appreciate simple living. Having an aha moment in these place makes me learn a lot of new things as I moved forward and experienced life changes.As I narrate earlier, simple life is not really simple. You have to give efforts too. It is not just as simple as that.

From day to day living, you still have a choice to push on or just make yourself stuck. It is still your decision to do what is good and important. Experiences every day is a choice to live because we have a lot of options on this planet. We are stuck sometimes on one path but life speeds will lead us to new beginning. Struggles and hard times is unavoidable but we still have choices to continue or regret in life.

I learned that life should be balance. We just need to go with the tempo of our existence. The slow paced of environment makes us realized that sometimes it needs to slow down and appreciate the little things around us and it will lead us to see a bigger picture – the wonderful ways on how to live in this world (wonderful world).

We as humans are totally different. We just need to be patient to ourselves. As the saying says “Nothing in nature blooms year round”. It’s ok to rest. Many of us have been looking for ways on how to feel good/better, to have a good source of income and to sustain our needs/wants but during this pandemic, it is really hard for some of us to maintain what we begin. We are searching for something that makes us productive and to support ourselves/ family and to live the way we want to be. We can still reach that planned goals but this is the time to pause for a while.Just remind ourselves that it’s not the endpoint. It is just a new beginning for a new journey that we never planned in life (new, better and beautiful life).

Always be thankful and grateful for all the things that you are experiencing now because it helps you to push harder in order to get what you want to achieve. Embrace every situation, you can be slow today but who knows tomorrow will be greater and brighter. Take it easy. Don’t be too fast try to make it slowly. Time is free so live one day at a time because unplanned plans will teach us to cherish every moment and memories to enjoy in this slow paced of life.Relax. Once we lost it we can never get it back so grab this opportunity to make life more meaningful.

Sometimes, even our best-laid plans don’t work out the way we intended. But if one plan fails, don’t lose hope–there is always another way to reach a solution. Don’t give up! – EntrepreneurMindset

Speed of life can be slow, fast or whatever pace of life it is, never be discourage just continually make progress. Ralph Waldo Emerson said “Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”

Fast and slow do more than just describe a rate of change. They are shorthand for ways of being, or philosophies of life. Fast is busy, controlling, aggressive, hurried, analytical, stressed, superficial, impatient, active, quantity-over-quality. Slow is the opposite: calm, careful, receptive, still, intuitive, unhurried, patient, reflective, quality-over-quantity. It is about making real and meaningful connections – with people, culture, work, food, everything. The paradox is that slow does not always mean slow…It is also possible to do things quickly while maintaining a Slow frame of mind. – Carl Honoré