Good Morning and Happy Monday! I hope you all had a great weekend and you were able to do some deep reflection this weekend based on the three day assignment I charged you with on Friday. If you didn’t please go check it out and do the work. I must admit, after three days of positive thoughts, language, and self-actualization…I FEEL GREAT! Being more confident in myself and leaning on my pessimistic side brought more peace. The rough situations became easier to manage. For example, I was suppose to attend an event yesterday, but my friend was late and we missed the event. Typically, I’m upset, annoyed, and in a mOOd, but I found that yesterday I was calm, cool, and collected and was able to develop a new plan of action. It really worked!
So it’s Monday and now the discussion is “why do we devalue our image to value the ownership of something we are not”. We have allowed social media and opinions to tarnish the great work we are, to only accept a mirage of what we aren’t. We have totally fell out of love with what we were designed to be.
We have accepted the attitude of valuing the bad rather than the good. Going back to the mirror and realizing that all that is present is good for the mission you were set out to fulfill through your life is rewarding. It’s like noticing the natural beauty that surrounds us…it’s breathtaking. When we value the ability to see beyond the surface we begin to see that our design is rather great than the torment. Valuing the opinions of others leave us tagged like a fresh wall that has been consumed with graffiti. It’s value has been depreciated and look destroyed. That’s what happens when we value the bad instead of the good that lies in the mirror . 
The beautiful I am. Many times the value of others consume us and strays us away from the mirror; instead placing us in front of a mirror that shows the face of another we desire to be. You have started to value you the bad and avoided your good…your prefect design that only you can reflect. So why do we lie to the mirror, because I’ve been told that they don’t lie. Why have we become so scared to look face to face with the real “us” and finally accept the mirror image in front of us.
Life has taught us to be confident within and admire others for their greatness; telling us that to be great I most look or act as such. True, but not fully. We all have been designed to be great all with a different toolbox of tools that creates that greatness. Have you ever looked at someone you admire and said I wish I could be more like him/her? Why should we be more like them, why can’t we look at the mirror image and find our own admiration, talents, uniqueness. Why do we place an increasing amount of acceptance in others and a decreasing amount in ourselves? We have ruined the image of who we are by smudging the paint, destroying the color palette, and ignoring the masterpiece that was created for the development of our own destiny. We have found fault in who we are to collect qualities of others who made us who we were not designed to be. We have created a fake and must take back ownership of the creative creation of work that stands in the mirror.
Fix your mirror image. Try looking at yourself and fixing what was already great by putting it back in its original state. Try this get a fresh pack of sticky notes and for a week write down all that makes you, you…all the things that make you YOUtiful. At the end of week notice all the things that you should value and that make you (you). You should begin to see that all the things you couldn’t find before were always right there in the mirror. They are the great qualities that are you. We can turn the bad value into good thoughts of who we already were. One of my favorite {Pinterest} pins match this bad vs good affect. The pin states, “When I look back on my life, I see the pain, mistakes and heart ache, but when I look in the mirror, I see strength, learned lessons, and pride in myself”. By doing this you are recognizing the masterpiece and accepted the design that is you…all that you were created to be. The good and bad of you to make you wonderful. Look back in that mirror and never tarnish what lies before you.
We have to start living like the tiger cub who sees himself as a mighty king, because he sees his image to be greater. The mirror is our guide and all that we see is of great value. Use that mirror not vanity, but for soul searching to self check. Take that mirror, place value on yourself, and say I am comfortable looking in the mirror, I love you…I really love you.
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