April Showers Brings...

What better month to practice growth than April. Even though April showers brings May flowers, this is still our month to continue to blossom. It's no better feeling than noticing your growth. Going from one thing to another and having the ability to look back and say "wow, I've grown" is a feeling that is indescribable. It brings joy, pride and happiness in just knowing that you came a long way.

Everything we've practiced has lead us to this point. To finally be able to go through this process and put it into some sort of action. At this time, now more than ever, we've got to stick to it in order to see results. Just like that summer body you work on when you go the gym, your mental, spiritual and emotional state deserve the same persistence too. It can be hard, especially with the same bad habits you had before, it's very easy to result back to them. The woman you want to be is relying on you to remain consistent so that you can be the best woman you can be. That woman requires work and diligence. It's just no way around it.

There are qualities about myself that I do not like. Like the fact that when something doesn't go my way I can't help, but to show some form of disappointment (or let other people tell it, brattiness). Or that it's some things that I do not like done to me, but if I do the same thing to someone else it's ok. Or how things have to happen when I want them to happen in order for me to be happy. These are all things I absolutely have to work on and trust me, trying to work on these things have been so hard. I mean they sound super easy to fix, but when you actually try to not do them, you fall into doing them again and constantly get reminded that there's so much more work to be done. These things take time. It's no time frame. Could be a month, could take a year... or two, but the point is to focus on what you want to change and practice it. EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.

Since working on my patience, double standards and spoiled-like behavior, I have been able to think twice before I go crazy when things do not go my way. I've been able to program myself to consider what I do before I get on someone else about things they do. I've been able to manage and minimize my brattiness and essentially grow up. I'm not 100% there, but I am well on my way.

Sometimes you don't even notice you've grown. I've had so many people come up to me and tell me that they see a change in me, a good change. During those times is when I reflect and realize it for myself. No one is perfect, although we all strive to be. As humans we know right from wrong so mental, emotional and spiritual things are easy to foresee because these are things we should possess anyway. We don't grow for acknowledgement. We grow for the betterment of ourselves and so we can look back and pat ourselves on the back and say "good job". You don't need approval or validation from anyone, this is all for you. Looking for a congratulations from other people, for what? Do it for yourself and be completely selfish with it. You deserve to.

Once you grow, you have to maintain it! Even after you put all that work in, the real test is making it permanent. Make it a lifestyle. In the end you'll be rewarded and the reward will be so great, the growth will feel 10x better.

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