Well… Here we are in month 6! We are halfway through the year already. Can you believe it? It seems like we just celebrated New Years Day last month. In this week’s blog, I wanted to send some encouragement to those who have not had the best start to this year.
Halftime means that the year is halfway over and now we enter into the second half of the year. We can look at it from different perspectives. The first way being; to start over… Just start over!
If your first six months have been crappy, then hey, you get a do-over! So, start this week, like it’s a brand new year. You get a free 6 months’ of do-over. How sweet is that?
Second, use the past 6 months of disappointments to be the fuel that catapults you straight into the finish line. We can either choose to learn from our mistakes or we can soak in our mistakes. So, if you messed up in the first 6 months, oh well. That’s the fuel you needed to light your rocket ship!
Here goes your encouragement, but story first!
My brother and I were having a disagreement through text that had carried over to the next day. So, as we were texting in the very beginning of the day, I told him, I don’t want to argue anymore, so fine to whatever he was saying, because I didn’t want to ruin my day especially since it had just started.
Although I was annoyed with him, he gave me some encouragement. He said “there is no reason to ruin your day over a discussion. Whether how heavy the topics get or not. From topic to the next; things change. Your mood from any previous topic should never carry over to the next. If you control your day, you control your mood. Regardless, of what adversity may come or how much of a jerk you think I am, you should never let me control how mad you get… Just sayin!”
With that being said… No matter how bad you think you’ve done in the past 6 months, or how rough it has been, you still get a second chance. Get control of your moods and your outcome will change.
Despite not scoring in the first half of the year, there is still plenty of time to score in the second half. Don’t be discouraged that things didn’t go the way you had planned them to go. Get happy that you get a re-do and another chance to get it right. Don’t let the first half of the year control the second half of the year!
Let’s finish strong…
AMEN!!