Facing the Lion's Challenge.

We are now going into the dark half of the year, the sun is out for a shorter and shorter period of time, the sun rising later, and setting earlier. We are on the shadow road of the cross roads. This, is a time to reflect, and look inside. Examine our wants, needs, and goals. To rid ourselves of the dead weight that has settled upon our shoulders, and the goals that do not any longer fit our lives. Maybe we have to distance ourselves from self destructive habits, and friends that are no longer good for our health and sanity to have. The ones that drag us down in their never ending drama as they spin their wheels making their bad situation worse. Try as they will, by doing the same exact thing. They dig deeper and deeper into the mud. After a certain point, hearing it, seeing it every day it starts to wear on you.

If you have a job that is spiritually painful to do, look at other options. Do not leave the job you have now, till another opportunity arises. As much as it sucks, you need to keep some sort of income, and money coming in to support yourself, and your family.

The dark half of the year, is a great time to work upon yourself. If you have any weight loss goals, plan and do them. Give it all that you have. If you have fitness goals, find things you can do, to enjoy the changing seasons, get out and enjoy the changing of the leaves, and the last scurrying of the animals as they search for food to add to their winter stores. Notice the changes in the world around you. Engage in mental pursuits, work on that story you've been wanting to write, work on the painting, or work on getting back into drawing. You have the notebooks and ideas laying around. It's time to achieve them.

It's time to leave fear behind. I'm going to try to do this. It scares me. It's going to make me feel vulnerable. But I have challenges in front of me, and I am going to take them on. I am going to start a weight loss challenge. I have a year to do it, I have a goal to write a book. I have several projects started. It's time that I finish one. It's time for me to evolve, for my self. For my love, for my spirit. Change is a necessary part of evolution. It's exciting, it's intriguing. It's also Scary as fuck. I've put off, and put off, it's time to DO. There is no tomorrow, only to day.

I am strong, I am wise, I am. I AM DOING THIS.