It’s Shaun’s World

Today’s my baby girl’s birthday so I’m not planning to post a new Shaun’s Daily Inspiration quote. I’ll just recycle one.

Yesterday, I decided to take the day off since I didn’t do it Wednesday. I cleaned, washed clothes and caught up on what’s been happening in everyone’s lives on social media. Honestly, I didn’t miss much. However, I did miss a few birthdays. Also, I saw two posts that made me think about my life and where it’s headed. You know, where I’m going with the things I’m currently doing and what I truly want to accomplish before I leave this earth?

The first was a reel shared by Dr. Cheryl Wood. Her message was to trust the process. She listed several steps to take while going through the process, and there were two that resonated with me – 1) Revisit your big WHY and 2) Write your goals on paper AGAIN. That set everything into motion. Then, Tyler Perry made a post about how he always looks at the big picture and his long term goal, and anything that doesn’t serve it he doesn’t do. So two messages had me really thinking about where I’m headed, or what I should be focused on.

Before the day was over, I did revisit goals that I wrote at the beginning of last year, but they didn’t really reflect my WHY or longterm goal. So today, I’m going to revisit my longterm goal, my dream, my WHY, and make sure I’m doing what’s needed to achieve it.

OAN: I cannot believe my baby girl will be 30 in two years. Like, where did the time go?! I mean, I still feel like I’m 21. Y’all, life is so weird and I love it!

As always, thanks for reading my ramblings. Listen, keep following my world as I create my world. Like you, I really don’t know where life is going to take me but I do know it will be interesting. Got receipts (thousands of journal entries) to prove it. Smile

Shaun

Wanted to provide an update to this morning’s blog. This is how God usually works in my life.

So, after showering and getting dressed, and working – Yes… haven’t stopped working since I woke up, I promise to stop soon – I watched a YouTube video by Sarah Jakes Roberts, Hey You, Process.

This is what I mean by, “How God Works.” This particular video was shared over a year ago; however, it was the first video when I opened YouTube. What I know about God, no matter what the title or who made the video, when I’m in need, the very first video is for ME. I know it sounds crazy but this is how things work in my life. If it’s not a video, it’s a message, song or something that’s exactly what I need. Well… this particular video was EXACTLY what I needed. She opened with, “We need to acknowledge that we need to take off our cape from time to time.” Listen, THIS is why I love God. THIS is why I always say that I love the way He loves me. Tears

Y’all, I am so blessed.

Grateful♥️

Wanted to share a quick lesson I learned a little while ago – Just ask God for help. Sounds simple, right? However, when you are determined to do things on your own, because you know you have the knowledge and skills to do them, the last thing you want to do is bother God by asking Him for help.

Short story…

I consider myself somewhat computer savvy. I’ve been fascinated with the computers and computer programming since learning how to do simple coding in the eighth grade (yes, students were coding almost 40 years ago). Well, yesterday, I was working on something so simple. Something that shouldn’t have taken longer than 30 minutes to complete, yet it took me hours. Actually, it’s the next day and I just figured out where I was going wrong. And this only happened after I said a little prayer asking God for help. When I tell you it happened instantaneously! Tears

Funny how I assumed I could do it on my own. And I’m not saying that I couldn’t have because the process was so simple. But I had worked on the problem for so long that my head and eyes were aching. I had to force myself to go to sleep earlier this morning, only to wake up three hours later trying to figure it out.

Okay.. side note.. so if I’m engrossed in something, especially trying to solve a problem, I don’t stop until it’s solved or come up with a similar solution. Sometimes I don’t eat. Sometimes I don’t sleep. It’s a habit that I thought I kicked over the last two years, but evidently it’s just been dormant. It’s definitely an unhealthy habit that cannot continue.

Exhaling

Now that the problem is solved, I think I’ll get some rest. God is good.

Shaun