This is the truth: The battle for yourself is the most important!

Sometimes is takes a little more than the big girl panties.

Sometimes is takes a little more than the big girl panties.

This is the truth:  There will be times in your life when just the Big Girl Panties ( Big Boy Boxers) aren’t going to cut it.

Some battles are too important. Any battle for YOURSELF, is the MOST important.

Find those Sparkly BGP,  as Righteous Momma described them the other day, and learn to love  and fearlessly be you!

Happy Monday Lovies!

Laura

PS- I just HAD to….

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This is the Truth: Silence

“Silence is better than bullshit.” | #goedemorgen #quote

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I went searching for a good image of the “I have loved the stars…” Galileo quote,  (hoping for a curly haired girl and the  moon, was disappointed) But stumbled upon this.

If I was feeling  more ornery tonight I’d state THIS IS THE MOTHER FLIPPING TRUTH!

Apply it to business.

If you don’t know the answer don’t make something up.  I’ve never been berated for stating “I’ll have to get back to you on that” or ” So and so will have a better answer, I will get with them and follow up with you”

Apply it to relationships.

Speak the truth to me or choose to stay silent. Both are your choice and both mean something in their own special way depending on who you are and how much I love you, or don’t.  It is in my nature to always speak the brutal, direct, sometimes delivered gently truth. I’ve never been very good at bullshit, sharing the truth of how I feel and what I think is too dear to me.  Bullshit takes too much effort to maintain and it degrades our relationship.

Back to searching for that perfect image… someday I will teach myself how to make them….

 


Quote Mantras

08/29/12 I’ve been meaning to move my quotes page to a quotes category for some time now.

Today I finally just took the plunge, making some tweaks along the way.

Have a good day Lovies!

08/03/11

I love quotes, but I rarely seek them out. I like them best when they come to me through a  random FB status update, or the whiteboard in my old boss’s office. Wise  words of wisdom picked up from a friend, or a colleague or  phrases from a book or a song.    Something about the quote has to move or enlighten me in that moment, sort of like a little message from GOD ala the karma of the divine universe.   Something about it has to stick around and serve its purpose.  My Mantras are a part of my personality, but  I often fall guilty of forgetting or losing sight of the others that moved me in  a moment.  I’ve always kind of wanted a place to keep them all written down, like maybe a quote journal….  I’m a working Mother, this IS my quote journal.    I can write them down here and then actually have that handy place to come and review when I need to be reminded or add and purge.  and voila, a quote page is born.

Best,

Lola

Quote Mantras

There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself

Put on your Big Girl Panties and Man/Woman up

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt

Don’t have to be the prettiest, if you have the the mind and willingness. No one stops, a girl who knows what she’s got.  Jimmy Eat World Stop

To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world

It is what it is. So now what?

The others

Life is short, live it. Love is rare, grab it. Anger is bad, dump it. Fear is awful, face it. Memories are sweet, cherish them. – Unknown

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein

In a moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
Theodore Roosevelt

“It’s impossible.” said pride.
“It’s risky.” said experience.
“It’s pointless.” said reason.
“Give it a try.” whispered the heart..♥

” Love all, trust a few,do wrong to no one.” Shakespeare

There are 5 things in life you cannot recover: A stone…after it’s thrown. A word…after it is said. An occasion.. .after it’s missed. The time…after it’s gone. A person…after they die. Life is short. Break the rules. Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret anything that made you smile, Enjoy Life!!

Sometimes your world has to be turned upside down in order to live right side up

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us ~E. M. Forster

You cannot teach what you don’t know. You cannot give what you don’t have. You cannot forgive what you can’t forget. But you can love even if you’re not being loved back.

Love cannot be found where it doesn’t exist, nor can it be hidden where it truly does.

Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. Dalai Lama

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. ~ Wayne Dyer


This is the truth: What you allow

This is so true it bears repeating and is currently the profile pic on the Closer to Lola Facebook page.

It applies to so many areas of life.

How you allow people to treat you is how they will continue to act. You teach them what is acceptable and what is not and you control the continuance  or the ceasing of behaviors you don’t like.

What you allow yourself to think and feel is what your mind will focus on, how your emotional and mental energy will be spent and what you will reap.

If you don’t like it and feel like you can’t change it, first ask yourself if you are truly committed to the change.

If your heart tells you the answer is no, and you still want to change then recognize that you deserve what you want. You deserve the best life possible and you are worth whatever effort is required of yourself to make the leap.

You are amazing and beautiful inside, no matter how messed up you think you are. Stop telling yourself you are messed up because guess what? Everyone is messed up, it’s called life.  Put on your BGP and go own it. Go get what you deserve. I know you can do it.

Laura


This is the truth: True Love

 

This is the truth, every day you choose to build it, leave it to its own devices or tear it down.

Choose to build it Lovies. it is time well spent and you deserve it.

Laura