Hello,
My name is Nefi,
Author of Fuel for the Soul on LinkedIn.
And today I just want to remind you that you must do the work.
And what I mean by that is that we're going to have things happen in our life,
Good,
Bad,
Ugly,
Trials,
Tribulations,
And in all things,
We have to do the work.
We live in a society now where we can just put a bandaid on most things,
Microwave society.
We don't have to fill things.
We find ways to numb things.
And I'm not talking just to everybody.
I'm talking to myself too.
Whether that's having a glass of wine,
Reaching for some ashwagandha or et cetera.
But the thing about it is you're going to have to fill things.
You're going to have to do the work.
Nothing's going to just come to you easily.
If you're dealing with something and you're like,
Oh,
You know what?
I need to go to therapy.
Well,
Guess what?
That's fine.
And you can have your sessions with your therapist,
But they're going to give you things to do and you have to do the work.
Somebody may say,
Hey,
You know what?
I'm depressed.
I'm not feeling well.
I'm going to take an antidepressant.
It will help in most cases,
But you still have to do the work behind it.
The mindfulness,
The meditation to dissecting what's going on in your life.
If things keep going on with different people and you're the common denominator and so on,
People say,
Oh,
I'm getting married and having kids and I have a dog and white picket fences.
But guess what?
You got to do the work to maintain that.
People change.
They grow.
Your kids go through all kinds of phases.
Your friendships go through all kinds of phases.
So I just want people to remember that no matter what we have in our life and we have to stop and do the work.
And when I say stop and do the work,
We got to stop over and over and over again.
And we're going to have these Valley moments and we're going to be like,
Oh my goodness,
This is terrible.
X,
Y,
And Z is happening,
But that's going to peak.
And then you're going to get back on the mountaintop and then you have to enjoy those mountain moments and share it with other people.
And you're going to go up and down cause that's what life is.
And it's not a bad thing that makes you have a good quality life.
You can't just be happy all the time.
You can't be sad all the time.
You can't be angry or frustrated all the time,
But we are human.
We get the opportunity to have a full spectrum of emotions.
We have to fill them all.
And that gives us a good life.
So my reminder for you today and whatever is going on in your life as of right now,
Figure out how you can do the work,
Maximize the good times,
Minimize the bad times,
Go through them,
Share your knowledge and then keep moving forward.
So do the work.
Have a good day.
Be well.
