Don’t confuse a dive with a belly flop. They may happen in the same place, the swimming pool, but they are as different as night and day. Well prepared dives in the hands of skillful women are graceful, precise, powerful, and barely make a splash. A belly flop, on the other hand, is wild, disturbing, physically painful, and messy.
It takes more effort to learn how to dive, but with precision comes beauty and clarity.
Carpe Diem Diva! Seize this day, take advantage of every moment by diving into your life, but learn how to do it right. In this day and age, taking care of home may require a whole new set of skills and creativity. We have so much to do, children to raise, people to love; we are needed and necessary, and we need ideas on how to do what we do with efficiency and grace.
While we are seizing our days, seek advice and wise counsel. Maybe it’s time to hang around successful couples to learn how to love each other for a lifetime (my Pastors have a gift in this area). Maybe it’s time to develop new computer skills so that you can dive into the information age (in this era what you know, how quickly you learn it and how well you execute it will determine your success). Maybe it’s time to use products that make life easier (like the dishwasher), then we can spend our time doing the things that no one else can do better, like paying some intimate and focused attention to your mate or mastering our craft or playing with our children after study time (your don’t need me to make a list of what’s important to you . . .). Maybe online bill paying could give you your life back, like it did for me.
In the middle of seizing your day, maybe an idea will come to you that fits your life style. Our life has construction to it. If you are married and a mother, then there are basic things that you need to accomplish in the course of a day. If you have a job and any type of commitment to your community, then there are things that you need to accomplish in the course of a week in order to continue to make a difference in the world. In other words, if you are living a life that counts, then there are people who are counting on you. And there are business ideas that will be a perfect dive into the construction of your life; ideas that will allow you to be a better mother, a better friend, a happier person, a woman who knows how to seize the day and shape the dream without loosing the best of herself . . . There is so much to this that we’ll have to go a little deeper tomorrow . . .
-MizJAI-
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Can’t wait until tomorrow!