I Can Do Hard Things

I can't pretend like I have had tons of extra time to Blog lately. Not saying I didn't make time for it, because I did, I just didn't have anything to say. Sometimes ideas come into my head, and I just know what to write, and other times it's just titles.

The past week or so it's just been a title.
"I can do hard things"

Maybe I've been thinking of this because it's just a positive affirmation for me.
Maybe it's because I need to remind myself,
or who knows
maybe I'm bracing for the future. With school, work, and teaching all starting again there is no doubt that it will be slightly hard.

I think at every new beginning there is something hard. At every end, there's something hard, and on the in-betweens there is something hard. I guess life is just something hard.

Today my lovely mother and I were talking about what it's like to be 17. Do you remember? I know I do.
I thought I was invincible. I thought I knew everything, and most of all I thought that everything would always go my way.
HA! That's a good laugh. See, I don't think Life likes being told what to do. I think life has it's own plan for all of us. It has curveballs, it has rocks, and it has storms. Anything to make us lose hope, dishearten us, and keep us from becoming what we can become.

How easy it is to lose sight of our goals, our dreams, our expectations. How quickly they are the first things to go out the window when things get hard. Apply the following statement: I can do hard things. I CAN do hard things. I WILL do hard things. I will OVERCOME hard things.

Each of us will struggle with something hard. We all have it in our lives. However a problem is only as strong as you make it. Yes, crap happens. To the best of us. Just know you are not alone. Crap happens to all of us.

but " I CAN DO HARD THINGS"

Let's do this life. Bring it on.

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