When things go wrong as they sometimes will
When the road you’re trudging seems all up hill.
When funds are low and the debts are high.
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh.
When care is pressing you down a bit.
Rest, if you must, but don’t you quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns.
As everyone of us sometimes learns.
And many a failure turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out:

Don’t give up though the pace seems slow -
You may succeed with another blow.
Success is failure turned inside out -
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt.
And you never can tell how close you are.
It may be near when it seems so far:
So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit
It’s when things seem worst that YOU MUST NOT QUIT.

In spite of recent events in the passing of [Michael Jackson] I thought I would go ahead and put a post up in his memory

The song….”Man in the Mirror”

The lyrics….

I’m Starting With The Man In
The Mirror
I’m Asking Him To Change
His Ways
And No Message Could Have
Been Any Clearer
If You Wanna Make The World
A Better Place
Take A Look At Yourself, And
Then Make A Change

Now with this being posted I shouldn’t have to say anything else but, I will……

Listen to the words!!!!

You can not change the world if you are not willing to change yourself (The Man in the Mirror) or woman….lol

Stay Boosted

Thinking back on my childhood I actually have tried to find memories of my father and it seems as if I only have but a small handful.

The sad thing is that most of them are not memories at all, its more a lack of memories:

For instance, I remember on the weekends when my sister and I were to stay with him, he would drop us off at our grandparents house for the full time and my mother would pick us up there so we had about 20 minutes with him from him picking us up to him dropping us off.

Another Example of Lack of Memories:
Then I remember when we decided to move from Arizona to Tennessee:
We had about 6 months from the time we decided to move till the time we were going to move.
My father lived, from what I can remember, about 10-15 minutes away and if I’m right I believe I seen him about 4 times inside of those 6 months.

The Real Hard One:
I also remember my father flying out to Tennessee to watch me graduate and I couldn’t believe it!
All my life I felt as if he didn’t want to have a son! It seemed to me that all his energy and attention was given to my sister,
but this time, he was actually flying out over 2,000 miles to watch me graduate high school…I was so happy. For the first time in my life I actually felt as if he wanted me as a son! He flew out and I remember dinner with him, his wife, my sister, my nephew (8months old at the time) and myself. About 3 days had passed and here he was once again forgetting he had a son.

That’s when I got the phone call:

“Hey CJ, Just wanted to let you know that I had to take the flight leaving first thing in the morning to save some money. I wish I could stay to watch you graduate…Blah Blah Blah…!” (a few hundred dollars was more important than my Graduation?).
The day before my graduation!

So naturally I held all this in for years and sad to say, hated my father and blamed him for almost every mistake I had ever made in my life!

But, my journey in self development led me to find that what I was doing wasn’t helping me at all,
I wasn’t being true to myself!
It was my Mom and step Dad who showed me that I had to forgive my (natural) father, Not for him, but for me.

In doing so (which did take a lot of energy from me), I found that “Life Lessons” are hidden inside of each and every day, you just have to look for them.

I asked and asked and asked for my father to be a part in my life and to this day he hasn’t.

But, to this day I do have a Dad who does love me and shows me all the affection I’ll ever need.
He changed my life and I never realized it until I forgave my father for not being there.
It was that moment I realized “Its ok that my father isn’t there for me, because my step dad is!!”

Closing Thought:
In this particular situation in MY life, it is my step Dad who is doing a great job at filling that “Empty Space”. Do you have a simular situation in your life? If so, who is it that is filling those empty spaces in your heart? Did you say their name just now? If you did then Good. If you said “no one” I’d like to suggest that, you may be looking in the wrong places (this is only a Suggestion).

So the lesson learned is: Even when it seems as if what your facing is a severe negative, If you look hard enough you’ll find the positive and not only that, but that positive will be bigger than you ever dreamed!

Read Part Two Here!

To your life, may you live abundantly, not only financially but mentally within your soul as well, and with all your relationships!

Stay Boosted!
CJ Hallock