by Dr. Dionna | Uncategorized
When it seems like everything is lost or shattered into pieces, what do you do?
How do you find yourself? Where do you begin?
Let’s starting by understanding this:
Life has a way teaching us lessons. They are often hard and difficult to go through. Our good days and our bad days mold us into who we’ll become and in all of that we may get overwhelmed with the complications of life. So now that you’ve seen, done, and heard it all, now is the time to go ahead and start picking up the pieces!! It’s time to do this for YOU and ONLY YOU! No one can stop your hustle or dictate the path of success that you’re now on. Instead of waiting for the year to end or from the near year to begin, make a decision to pick up the pieces of your life, NOW & TODAY!
You’re probably wondering “which pieces should I pick up?” ONLY YOU know what you value the MOST. Make sure those are the pieces you search for and pick up first. You cannot reach beyond those pieces to go and get new or more pieces! It only adds clutter and more junk to your current pieces in your life.
Your passions, motivations, inspirations, happiness, joy, peace, laughter, faith, and love SHOULD be what you pick up because they are the necessities in leading a successful life. By picking up these types of pieces first, you’ll be able to hold on to them and use them throughout the course of your life, during the good and bad times. However, it is your choice in what you decide to pick up and where you lay them down in your life for foundation. I can only suggest THREE PIECES that I believe will help you find begin the journey to picking up yourself:
- Change your perspective by no longer picking up the negative pieces that previously affected your life. As a matter of fact, throw them away RIGHT AWAY! Begin to think bigger, better, and wiser. Refuse to put yourself down, but instead lift yourself up.
- Conquer your fears by going for the goals you never felt possible or you thought were out of your reach. Just like you’re able to pick up the pieces of your life, you are able to overcome everything that makes you afraid and simply go for the gold!
- Understand that life is a process and each step that you take will guide you towards finding out who you really are and what you’re made of. You will learn your strengths, weaknesses, and quirks all throughout your journey. So go ahead and live.
Though you’ve been through tough trails and circumstances, remember YOU ARE THE AUTHOR, it is time for a fresh start and a new story to your success. ONLY YOU CAN PICK UP THE PIECES TO YOUR LIFE TO FIND YOURSELF!
Let’s make 2014 a year that counts the most!
Signing off until next year,
Dr. Dionna
by Dr. Dionna | Uncategorized
Life is too short to worry about stupid things. Have fun. Fall in love. Regret nothing and don’t let people bring you down. When you understand life, you see the value it holds. It’s worth to you is based on how you decide to live it out. Don’t ever finish off your day with regrets or not tell your loved ones you love them. Take the chance you have now and do the “little things,” which have so much importance.
Don’t just stop at that! Life is a gift! A special gift given to us that we should cherish and appreciate. Do something great with the life you’ve been given. Chase your dreams, goals, desires, and the things you’re most passionate about.
Life is beautiful, full of ups and downs and twists and turns. Today, be sure to let go of all the pointless drama and unnecessary baggage.
Since life is short, why not be anything but happy?
by Dr. Dionna | Uncategorized
The most common definition of SUCCESS is “the fact of getting or achieving wealth, respect, or fame; the correct or desired result of an attempt; someone or something that is successful; a person or thing that succeeds” (Merriam-Webster, 2013). There are so many definitions for SUCCESS but the real definition comes from within your own desires. It is dependent upon what compliments and completes your inner most desires and heart.
Sometimes we trick ourselves into believing that the most mediocre things that have taken place in our lives are what we call or can define as SUCCESS. Or we pick the things others go for in society and become complacent because someone else defines that as SUCCESS. We often conform to what society defines SUCCESS as or what society says SUCCESS should feel like for an individual; but what is SUCCESS?
I challenge you to look at the things you have acquired or accomplished in your life and determine if that has really helped you become the person you desire to be in your heart. When I use to go through so much turmoil in my life, I would look at SUCCESS as a far cry from where I was at the time. I could not see beyond the struggles in my life; what God had ahead for me. The tears from anger, pain and feeling like a failure clouded my vision so heavily, I just could not see!
Back then, if you asked me what SUCCESS meant to me, I would have said this below:
SUCCESS has been
S = Sad
U= Unwanted
C = Compromises’ & Challenges
C = Covered in
E = Easy & Effortless
S = Struggles &
S = Sacrifices
Now, when I define SUCCESS, I go beyond the general meaning and define it as it applies to what I want out of my life.
Time and experiences will force you to go there! I can now welcome any unwanted compromises, challenges, easy, effortless, struggles and sacrifices and say:
SUCCESS is now
S = Seeking
U = Unlimited
C = Chances that comes with
C = Convenient and
E = Equal opportunities
S = Solidified through
S = Satisfaction
Basically SUCCESS is what you make it and how you define it to match your existence. Take time to determine WHAT DOES SUCCESS MEAN FOR YOUR LIFE?
Try to fill in the blank and say “SUCCESS means _________________ to me”. Is it love, happiness, comfort, riches, certifications, degrees, wealth or fame (if any), parenting, or the lavished/luxury materials you possess (some will say this is an accomplishment)? Is it how you look, what you wear, what you drive, where you sleep? Is it going on a trip, reaching for the stars, building a plan, putting the pieces back together, jumping for joy, choosing between SUCCESS and failure? Is it having money in your hand, feeling smooth leather, warm fur, 600 thread count sheets or being fed good food, winning a race, or walking down the red carpet?
What is it? You be the judge!
Signing Off
Dr. D
by Dr. Dionna | Uncategorized
Have You Ever Felt So Unsuccessful or Unhappy in your Life that you pegged it as being Unpretty?
Or were there any other reasons why you just felt so DAMN UNPRETTY?
If TLC Could Not Have Said It Any Better: (Try to hear the lyrics as you read the words-very powerful)
I wish I could tie you up in my shoes make you feel unpretty tooI was told I was beautiful but what does that mean to you?Look into the mirror who’s inside there the one with the long hair.Same old me again today, yeah
My outsides look cool, my insides are blue! Every time I think I’m through it’s because of you. I’ve tried different ways but it’s all the same! At the end of the day I have myself to blame I’m just trippin’
You can buy your hair if it won’t grow, You can fix your nose if you say so, You can buy all the make up that M.A.C. can make! But if you can look inside you, find out who am I too! Be in a position to make me feel so damn unpretty!
Yeah, I’ll make you feel unpretty too…………………………………………………………………..
Never insecure until I met you, now I’m bein’ stupid! I used to be so cute to me, just a little bit skinny! Why do I look to all these things to keep you happy? Maybe get rid of you and then I’ll get back to me, hey
My outsides look cool, my insides are blue! Every time I think I’m through it’s because of you. I’ve tried different ways but it’s all the same! At the end of the day I have myself to blame me just trippin’
You can buy your hair if it won’t grow, You can fix your nose if you say so, You can buy all the make up that M.A.C. can make! But if you can look inside you, find out who am I too! Be in a position to make me feel so damn unpretty!
You can buy your hair if it won’t grow, You can fix your nose if you say so, You can buy all the make up that M.A.C. can make! But if you can look inside you, find out who am I too! Be in a position to make me feel so damn unpretty!
You can buy your hair if it won’t grow, You can fix your nose if you say so, You can buy all the make up that M.A.C. can make! But if you can look inside you, find out who am I too! Be in a position to make me feel so damn unpretty!
You can buy your hair if it won’t grow, You can fix your nose if you say so, You can buy all the make up that M.A.C. can make! But if you can look inside you, find out who am I too! Be in a position to make me feel so damn unpretty!
Read more: TLC – UNPRETTY LYRICS
Ok So You Get My Drift!
When You Hear These Words or Think of These Images Below What Comes To Mind?
Have you ever made dumb decisions because you felt unpretty?
My point is that life can take us down so much that we have no idea how to appreciate what we have already been blessed with…like a beautiful smile with chubby cheeks, gorgeous body with a pimple outbreak, beautiful children with tempers and outgoing personalities, safe family with a little bit of dysfunctional characteristics, a working car with a high car note, a comfortable home with a yard and an alarm system, a job with barely a decent pay, smart personality with horrible rapport skills, etc….the list can go on forever! Why? Because we are often insecure about who we already are and have no idea how to turn back the hands of time to a place when we thought we weren’t unpretty but looking back on it now, we realize we were in the best shape, style, and beauty of our life time.
Where does it stop? When is enough, enough? Who will stop us? When will we ever look at ourselves and say THANK YOU to our creator for creating such a unique individual – thats who? ME!
If we keep looking deeper inside for someone else, you will never find who you want to be or who you already are BUT when you are looking inside yourself for a deeper meaning of why you exist on this earth, then you will find all that you are destined to be! Until you can be happy with who you already are, you will never find the person you are meant to be!
Let’s get a clue friends and family!
Signing off,
Dr. Hancock-Johnson
by Dr. Dionna | Uncategorized
When our emotional baggage includes fear, worry and guilt, we tend to attract the wrong type of support! Or maybe we just go to the wrong person for positive support!
On top of that, when there are people who do not want to see you succeed they tend to prey on your weakness, don’t they? Soon as they learn about your emotional baggage, they can drive the whole deeper than you can imagine! They will actually help you lift your emotional baggage instead of helping you unpack it!
So we simply have to avoid negative peers or anyone who is not willing to help us unpack our emotional baggage but only if we are ready! This type of person will not mind tripping over your baggage in order to watch you continue to drown! They will actually enjoy falling over your drama and unwanted luggage just to see you sink under water!
Now if we are ready we can easily unpack our emotional baggage and fill it up with more positive things like life goals, the desire to succeed, motivation, etc…
But if you are the type of person who considers yourself to be lazy, you have to find your motivation in another suitcase and you have no idea where I am going with the whole motivation and baggage story lol – here is a quote from my second book Be Your Own Life Coach: How To Life Coach Yourself Into What You Want that may help you!
“From here on out, when we set goals, remember we have to check our laziness at the ticket counter and pick up our luggage of motivation at the baggage claim or else we will continue to fail at clearing the clutter in our mind to see our vision through” (BYOLC, 2013, pg. 81).
When you spend time visualizing where you want to be in life and you act on it, you leave no time for carrying previous baggage. Visualizing helps you to minimize unwanted and un-needed emotional baggage.
If you are focused on change, then you cannot under any circumstances focus on your past! The more excited you get about your future and the changes you plan to make, the lighter your luggage will feel because there is nothing holding you back.
Ultimately you will begin to feel weight lifted off your shoulders that allow you to be free and happy.
Have you ever returned from a long trip, got home and was too tired to un-pack your luggage?
If you are like me, the luggage ends up sitting for week’s right and basically nothing moves until you move it? Same with the emotional baggage in your life, you let it continue to sit and eat at your soul, then nothing will ever change!
The thing is before you can walk a new path, move into a new direction, or set up this new life for yourself, you have to unpack your old baggage! That means removing anything you don’t want or need to be a part of your life.
That may be also learning how to identify your weaknesses, the blind spots or even digging deep within yourself to finally face your issues.
Another part of unpacking your emotional baggage is also stopping the blame game; blaming everyone for your faults and learning how to forgive others by letting IT go.
Signing off once again,
Dr. Hancock-Johnson
