The Journey is the Happiness

"There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time." ---Og Mandino


Life can at times be very difficult. It can be full of heart-ache. I can tell you from personal experience that the above quote from Og Mandino is absolutely accurate. Much of my adult life has been spent living without the passion I so desired. It was hiding deep within me and I allowed my environment to assist me in keeping it hidden. Approximately a little over two years ago I decided that this would be the case no more. I will never again allow my environment to keep me living a life without passion. I will accomplish everything I set out to accomplish. I will surround myself with inspiring people with like-minded passion. Passion for living, for loving, for laughing, for caring and in all things with all people.

The journey is the happiness and happiness is now. There are many things I can point to and say, this has been terrible or I am so hurt, but who does this help? A couple of weeks ago I had a counselor that I have been working with say, I must say I have never seen anyone handle heartbreak as well as you have. If I am honest, which I am, I just said, it is the Lord that deserves the credit. Through him all things are possible.

Through great disappointment and enormous heartbreak can come enormous joy and love. Blessings come in many disguises and through the atonement you can overcome any difficulty. How did I overcome great heartache and all of the weight issues of the past? I simply focused on the blessings I do have and with great anticipation looked to the future of the blessings I will have. I have been given a great opportunity to design my life the way the Lord wants me to design it and the way I want to design it.

The weight continues to drop quickly. My mind, confidence and self-esteem are improving at warp speed. I am developing new friendships with inspiring people. I am surrounding myself with people of great integrity, great passion and those that desire to live life to its fullest. I have never looked to the future with such excitement as I do now. I have never been closer to my father-in-heaven and my children are benefiting from this transformation. Happiness is now and happiness is the journey.

"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again." ---Og Mandino