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I wish I could tell you that I am a well put together human being. I wish all my blog posts boasted of this life where I know everything and answers came to me with the greatest of ease. I'm intuitive and decisive but I'm very faulty mentally, not the crazy slice you up and eat you type of faulty but the time that’s self-critical and reflective. I’m an over-thinker.

With that having been said, a recent revelation in my life brought me to my knees. After over thinking I had to beg my very uppity and upset soul to trust the process. What does that even mean, I asked myself in the middle of the night. Trusting the process means not fretting and allowing what was meant for you, meet you along the way. We are set as people to go for something and have it work according to our well thought out plans. Hell and behold should this not happen. The over thinkers on this planet will get me.

So I decided to do a little soul searching in aspects I know I need to keep in check. I looked at mind, body and soul and looked at how I can better keep focused on what is working out well for me, right now:

Mind - I know that even though there are things that I am working on and thinking though I am no longer in a depressed state. I no longer have those moments and when they do I allow myself no longer than 2 hours to be in that moment. I know that if I commit my thoughts to God he will take care of the rest. I need to rest in that – everything is working out for my good and that is the final truth.

Body - If I don’t do things that keep me active my body will not tire out which leads to restlessness. I need to keep being active even when walking and jogging on the roads means I am seen by people. I must go beyond the roadside spectators. I need to build a certain level of resolve.

Soul - God is no man that he should lie. With that in mind, we are going to face difficulties but it doesn’t mean that they define the soul they just equip you with a stronger backbone. Yes the soul is tired and the year is racing so fast, however, an emotional audit of the circles you are in is another great way to shed the soul’s excess weight.

Trust the process, with your heart and soul. I never knew this until this year. I didn’t fully apply the concept because I don’t stop to appreciate the lessons in most cases or rather let’s say I choose and picked what I want to learn and life never works that way. Stop and allow things to go according to how they want to go and not how you want them to go. It’s time to elevate to the highest and greatest level of ourselves.

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