Encourage yourself

Its easy to be discouraged and loose our zeal for life because we go through a lot of adversities in life, our dreams don’t always happen on time, we lose our Jobs, relationships fail, loved once either desert us or leave this earth through death, all of that contributes in us loosing hope and feeling discouraged.

There are people around us trying to encourage us, friends, colleagues, motivational speaker, religious leaders etc, but the truth is, it is all in vain if we don’t encourage ourselves. If you want freedom you really have to learn to draw courage and strength from deep down inside of you, if you don’t do it, nobody is going to do it for you.

In the world we live in today (especially in South Africa), young people (especially the Black African Child) are discouraged because of the state of the economy. We are discouraged because we are unemployed, we experiencing difficulties in accessing Education, our lives are turned upside down by diseases such as HIV and AIDS, Drug and Alcohol abuse and many other social ills that has besieged our lives, everybody is looking for some kind of hope and seems like we don’t know where to find it. My view is that we are looking for hope and encouragement in the wrong places, we don’t realise that they are in fact “within ourselves” sitting deep down inside of us, waiting to rescue us. 

We need to learn to motivate ourselves to push more, get up and go try again. We need to learn to wake up every morning and remind ourselves of the good God has done for us, he has given us the basic tools to try and better our lives, eyes to see, legs to stand and walk, hands to touch and do, and most importantly “brains to think, encourage ourselves, think positive about our own future and give ourselves hope”. 

Our hope lies within ourselves and not with the next person, remind yourself of all the good things that has happened in your life and draw strength from there, tell yourself that if God could do all those things for you, he is not about to stop, believe that bigger things are yet to come. Even during trying times, believe that he is walking the journey with you and he will make sure you are delivered to the Promised Land. Let us acknowledge and be thankful of the good things that have happened to us first, and then draw strength and encouragement from there, that way we can begin to work harder towards even bigger things, build and create our own desired future full of successes.

Do away with the spirit of discouragement in your life, those negative thoughts like “I’m never going to make it, I’m not worthy of the good things, this is way too hard for me etc.”, refrain from those thoughts because they are turning you into a victim, a victim of your own negative thinking, if you don’t change your attitude and encourage yourself you will be a victim of your own discouragement. Think positive based on what you have achieved already, switch to a new thinking every day, relive the memories of some of the good things you have done or that has happened to you, list all your accomplishments and celebrate yourself, it is not up to other people to keep you encouraged, it is up to you.

Every time you do something good, step back and say to yourself “I DID GOOD”, encourage yourself Black Child, you are your only HOPE.

 #MeditationsOfTheHeart