When you set your heart out on pursuing your goals, do you expect greatness? Or are you just doing something in hope that it will turn out great?
Keep your mind positive and full of expectation that things will work out. Negativity is NOT allowed in order to turn your vision into reality!
Put action behind the vision, work smart (and hard), remain focused and expect the best!
It will come!
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Friday, October 17, 2008
To be used or not to be used......
There are times in life where you will encounter a certain type of friend.
She calls you only when she needs someone to do something for her, when she needs a place to stay, and when you call her she's never there. You only see her 2 or 3 times a year, but to the outside looking in you're best friends.
So what do you do? How do you cope when someone you were so close to just walks on you like a doormat?
Accept it!
Life is like a long haul international flight on a plane. Whoever starts with you in NY may not travel with you all the way to St. Tropez (lol). There will be layovers, friends will get off the plane and new people will get on.
So don't feel bad when someone who used to be oh so close is oh so far.
Enjoy the flight, embrace the new!
She calls you only when she needs someone to do something for her, when she needs a place to stay, and when you call her she's never there. You only see her 2 or 3 times a year, but to the outside looking in you're best friends.
So what do you do? How do you cope when someone you were so close to just walks on you like a doormat?
Accept it!
Life is like a long haul international flight on a plane. Whoever starts with you in NY may not travel with you all the way to St. Tropez (lol). There will be layovers, friends will get off the plane and new people will get on.
So don't feel bad when someone who used to be oh so close is oh so far.
Enjoy the flight, embrace the new!
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
For and not to.....
I've probably posted something similar to this earlier BUT I don't think I really applied it.....
There are some things you're not going to understand in life, and at times you're going to feel like everything is happening to you.
In relationships (sometimes) people will lie to you, steal from you, never talk to you and then ask for a "favor", betray you, manipulate you and flat out have your mind going in circles!
BUT if you can understand that all of this is happening for you and not TO you, you can have hope for tomorrow.
What do I mean by for you? I mean if all the above mentioned things do happen to you. Your coat of skin for life, which should be THICK, will become gator skin. And after a while you will finally see everything coming full circle AND the way you want it.
You'll appreciate the new things, new relationships, and the doors opening. But the only way that will happen is if you endure those hard times realizing the things you thought were happening TO you were really working FOR you.
There are some things you're not going to understand in life, and at times you're going to feel like everything is happening to you.
In relationships (sometimes) people will lie to you, steal from you, never talk to you and then ask for a "favor", betray you, manipulate you and flat out have your mind going in circles!
BUT if you can understand that all of this is happening for you and not TO you, you can have hope for tomorrow.
What do I mean by for you? I mean if all the above mentioned things do happen to you. Your coat of skin for life, which should be THICK, will become gator skin. And after a while you will finally see everything coming full circle AND the way you want it.
You'll appreciate the new things, new relationships, and the doors opening. But the only way that will happen is if you endure those hard times realizing the things you thought were happening TO you were really working FOR you.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
THE POWER OF WORDS
Don't underestimate the things that can happen based on the words you speak.
Word becomes life and what you speak can alter your life forever.
The mouth is a powerful thing. Keep a positive mindset, positive thoughts and speak those things that be not as though they were!
Word becomes life and what you speak can alter your life forever.
The mouth is a powerful thing. Keep a positive mindset, positive thoughts and speak those things that be not as though they were!
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Emotions'll Have You Broke!
My poison of the "one eyed devil" (what old people refer to the tv as) is Making the Band 4. Say what you want, but sometimes Diddy really does speak the truth about certain success related principles.
This past episode, when danity kane was bickering about what they didn't like about being in the group, he interrupted and said "emotions'll have you broke!"
"You'll be watching the MTV awards 10 years from now" sayin what could have been.....
Think about it (and I write this for my ladies but some men may relate), emotions move you to do certain things. I.e the word "motion" in emotion.
When you get angry, you react a certain way. When you're sad, happy, excited etc. but these "emotions" can be dangerous.
All too often us women let our emotions get in the way of handling business and actively , keyword ACTIVELY pursuing our goals.
Example, a woman is so in love and has all this business and opportunity coming her way BUT when her "man" calls on her or hurts her or wants to spend time with her....she drops everything. Just for a few days (she says), oh it's just a few weeks...and then before you know it a whole year has gone by and the opportunity is gone.
Meanwhile, that "man" got a call two days ago to help him further pursue his dream BUT he has to leave you in order to do it. He's packed and gone in less than a week! You gave him your time and sacrificed your dreams. So now what do you do?
I'm not knockin being in love BUT I am knockin letting love and the emotions that may come with it "knock you off your high horse"(distract and detur you).
Don't look back 10 years from now, 20 years sayin "man, I was so fine, I had such a good life and I let (fill in the blank) ruin me by taking over my thoughts!"
You decide what you think about and what you do. Not your emotions!
This past episode, when danity kane was bickering about what they didn't like about being in the group, he interrupted and said "emotions'll have you broke!"
"You'll be watching the MTV awards 10 years from now" sayin what could have been.....
Think about it (and I write this for my ladies but some men may relate), emotions move you to do certain things. I.e the word "motion" in emotion.
When you get angry, you react a certain way. When you're sad, happy, excited etc. but these "emotions" can be dangerous.
All too often us women let our emotions get in the way of handling business and actively , keyword ACTIVELY pursuing our goals.
Example, a woman is so in love and has all this business and opportunity coming her way BUT when her "man" calls on her or hurts her or wants to spend time with her....she drops everything. Just for a few days (she says), oh it's just a few weeks...and then before you know it a whole year has gone by and the opportunity is gone.
Meanwhile, that "man" got a call two days ago to help him further pursue his dream BUT he has to leave you in order to do it. He's packed and gone in less than a week! You gave him your time and sacrificed your dreams. So now what do you do?
I'm not knockin being in love BUT I am knockin letting love and the emotions that may come with it "knock you off your high horse"(distract and detur you).
Don't look back 10 years from now, 20 years sayin "man, I was so fine, I had such a good life and I let (fill in the blank) ruin me by taking over my thoughts!"
You decide what you think about and what you do. Not your emotions!
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
You're doubting and I'm decreeing!
You've heard the saying watch your mouth a thousand times...but do you really?
In modeling you have seasons, and sometimes a drought comes with the territory....I had been in a drought for a minute so my mind wasn't all the way confident.
I called my mom about this job I didn't know if I booked and she said girl! You're doubting and I'm decreeing, you better speak to your situation and believe!
The next day I got the call!
Believe in yourself and watch your mouth! Your words become life:)
In modeling you have seasons, and sometimes a drought comes with the territory....I had been in a drought for a minute so my mind wasn't all the way confident.
I called my mom about this job I didn't know if I booked and she said girl! You're doubting and I'm decreeing, you better speak to your situation and believe!
The next day I got the call!
Believe in yourself and watch your mouth! Your words become life:)
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Judge Not!
*another mobile blog*
A day in the life of the model side of Channing...wake up @ 6am, attempt 2 look fabulous, even if it is 40 degrees (because image is everything)!!
Catch the 7 am bus to take the 7:30am ferry to take the 8am train (NY term for subway) to be @ work @ 8:30 am sharp (todays work was fit modeling). In between sessions, I had a go see downtown w/45 min 2 get there and back (So clearly no time to stop 4 grub. No food=reyurrr).
Long story short I was rushed and hungry.....while getting pissed off waiting on the train (it was 11:30 I had 2 be back @ work @ 12, the train took 15 minutes to come!).
I noticed a blind man waiting on the train. He looked happy. He had his stick and was waiting patiently and while waiting he smiled in my direction.
Curious to see how he would get on, I manuevered my way through the waiting people to be sure I sat in his cart. He patted his stick against the train until he could feel where the door opened and went on.
When I got on, a few doors down, there was this woman who decided 2 put her little gift bag in a seat next 2 her where I wanted 2 sit.
Being pissed already b/c she took forever 2 move it, in my mind I was like u little witch!
Meanwhile, the blind man was standing in the way of the doors and before the next stop could come the little "witch" beside me got up. Being in snobby NY mode I thought "good more room for me".
She walked over 2 the blind man took his arm and asked him if he wanted 2 sit. She gingerly sat him down, he thanked her and then she left.
Of course I felt bad after that. I could hear in my head, judge not lest you be judged. All of the people on that train myself included knew he was blind and didn't help him sit. But the "witch" did...
Don't judge others and be grateful for every moment, and every ability you have we are blessed more than we know.
A day in the life of the model side of Channing...wake up @ 6am, attempt 2 look fabulous, even if it is 40 degrees (because image is everything)!!
Catch the 7 am bus to take the 7:30am ferry to take the 8am train (NY term for subway) to be @ work @ 8:30 am sharp (todays work was fit modeling). In between sessions, I had a go see downtown w/45 min 2 get there and back (So clearly no time to stop 4 grub. No food=reyurrr).
Long story short I was rushed and hungry.....while getting pissed off waiting on the train (it was 11:30 I had 2 be back @ work @ 12, the train took 15 minutes to come!).
I noticed a blind man waiting on the train. He looked happy. He had his stick and was waiting patiently and while waiting he smiled in my direction.
Curious to see how he would get on, I manuevered my way through the waiting people to be sure I sat in his cart. He patted his stick against the train until he could feel where the door opened and went on.
When I got on, a few doors down, there was this woman who decided 2 put her little gift bag in a seat next 2 her where I wanted 2 sit.
Being pissed already b/c she took forever 2 move it, in my mind I was like u little witch!
Meanwhile, the blind man was standing in the way of the doors and before the next stop could come the little "witch" beside me got up. Being in snobby NY mode I thought "good more room for me".
She walked over 2 the blind man took his arm and asked him if he wanted 2 sit. She gingerly sat him down, he thanked her and then she left.
Of course I felt bad after that. I could hear in my head, judge not lest you be judged. All of the people on that train myself included knew he was blind and didn't help him sit. But the "witch" did...
Don't judge others and be grateful for every moment, and every ability you have we are blessed more than we know.
Sunday, October 5, 2008
what do you have to lose?
It's no secret I've been dealing with thoughts of death and how Americans live compared to foreigners (mentality wise).
In other countries, especially when I was in France they LIVE they don't SURVIVE. My bff is in Japan and she has been learning to live w/out the pressure and drama money in America brings.
As opposed to panicking and getting your panties in a bunch, LIVE!
Go out and pursue your hearts desires full force and don't give up!
I mean seriously, what do you have to lose? Time is passing, don't wait til your mid life for a crisis.
Just do it! You have nothing to lose and you're alive so the opportunity is there.
No matter what is happening on wall street or what the media says. You can still have peace and live instead of survive.
In other countries, especially when I was in France they LIVE they don't SURVIVE. My bff is in Japan and she has been learning to live w/out the pressure and drama money in America brings.
As opposed to panicking and getting your panties in a bunch, LIVE!
Go out and pursue your hearts desires full force and don't give up!
I mean seriously, what do you have to lose? Time is passing, don't wait til your mid life for a crisis.
Just do it! You have nothing to lose and you're alive so the opportunity is there.
No matter what is happening on wall street or what the media says. You can still have peace and live instead of survive.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
What attitude do you have?
Some of you may read my blogs and think why does this girl focus so heavily on what we think?
Because your thoughts are so powerful and when I write I share things that I am just learning and/or grasping.
Keeping a positive attitude is what I want to share today (and I'm blogging mobile again so forgive any typos).
No matter what is going on, no matter what happens to you good or bad. Its not what happens but how you react.
If you lose your job today do you curse everyone out or do you trust to find something better remaining positive and optimistic?
I realized in my own experience it is so easy to become bitter and hurt, instead of remaining positive and optimistic about accomplishing your goals.
So no matter what, choose to be positive and watch the results come out....POSITIVE!
Lol, love you all.
Because your thoughts are so powerful and when I write I share things that I am just learning and/or grasping.
Keeping a positive attitude is what I want to share today (and I'm blogging mobile again so forgive any typos).
No matter what is going on, no matter what happens to you good or bad. Its not what happens but how you react.
If you lose your job today do you curse everyone out or do you trust to find something better remaining positive and optimistic?
I realized in my own experience it is so easy to become bitter and hurt, instead of remaining positive and optimistic about accomplishing your goals.
So no matter what, choose to be positive and watch the results come out....POSITIVE!
Lol, love you all.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
a break from the norm.....
I'm blogging mobile for the 1st time right now. I'm currently @ work @ the Hip Hop Honors award show. De la soul is performing, there have been tons and tons of hip hop greats standing by and speaking to me all day BUT my mind is stuck on a call I received from a friend when I 1st got here
I've been dealing with death a lot the last 3 months, losing loved ones is hard BUT I have 2 blog about a silent killer.
My friend called to ask me to rend my speaking services for an engagement in Nov and April. Motivational speaking being my passion I said yes......the reason for the April one?
A young lady had hpv, had a baby and gave a form of lung cancer to the little girl and she died.....*blank stare*
3 of my 4 friends (beautiful and models/could be btw) have had hpv and have had the LEEP procedure performed.
HPV is so common right now I'm pretty much sure 85% of men are carriers
The thing is there is no test for men to know whether or not they have it. So what does this mean?
Get your annuals and be responsible. You can get hpv thru a condom and honestly every year some disease comes out that shows why its more and more worth it to wait to have sex.
I mean really, having a baby and the kid dying b/c of some punk...please! Be wise ladies,
I've been dealing with death a lot the last 3 months, losing loved ones is hard BUT I have 2 blog about a silent killer.
My friend called to ask me to rend my speaking services for an engagement in Nov and April. Motivational speaking being my passion I said yes......the reason for the April one?
A young lady had hpv, had a baby and gave a form of lung cancer to the little girl and she died.....*blank stare*
3 of my 4 friends (beautiful and models/could be btw) have had hpv and have had the LEEP procedure performed.
HPV is so common right now I'm pretty much sure 85% of men are carriers
The thing is there is no test for men to know whether or not they have it. So what does this mean?
Get your annuals and be responsible. You can get hpv thru a condom and honestly every year some disease comes out that shows why its more and more worth it to wait to have sex.
I mean really, having a baby and the kid dying b/c of some punk...please! Be wise ladies,
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