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Consistency- Just Do It!

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  In the process of remaking some of my posts, I came across Consistency, Consistency, Consistency .  By the way, you can go ahead and check out the original before reading this one. 😊  ( https://theraydestiny.blogspot.com/2020/09/consistency-consistency-consistency.html) In the old version, I mentioned that when people are often given dreams or try to achieve their goals, they are often top-heavy.  Meaning, sometimes we can be so focused on the end goal that we don't pay attention to the journey that we have to take to get there. We don't consider the steps. I concluded in the old post that consistency is remembering why when you start to grow weary, distracted, or discourage.  But, in this post, I want to add something that I had learned since starting my blog. Some days I experience this fatigue of not wanting to write. Not because I don't have anything to say to you guys, but because even when we are walking on our journey, discouragement doesn't just go aw...

Dealing With Grief

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Photo by Jennifer Griffin on Unsplash   Everyone has experienced some sort of loss in their life that made them adjust the way they would think or act moving forward.  Telling someone how they should grieve is never the key way to help, I know that.  It's because you don't know how that person is feeling, even if their loss may be the same as yours in context.  Both of you may have lost parents, but your relationship with your parent may have not been as close-knitted and dependant as the other person, so their process of overcoming it isn't going to take a couple of months or years like you.  I have known persons that have grieved for their losses for years and all of their lives. I have read that there are different stages of grief: Denial Anger Bargaining or the "What if, If Only" stage. Depression Acceptance The leap to the different stages is not an easy one. In most cases, moving from one stage to another is a slow staggering crawl that makes you feel as ...