Don't let what others are doing, being or having distract you from what you're doing! It's amazing what concentration and focus can do, while we certainly live in a world that thrive on distractions, half-truths, gossip and sensationalized news headlines, often about people who haven't done anything, but they're awful famous! Anything to take us away from our lives and desires to worship celebrities who rely on us to build their brands! The worst we feel, the more we spend is the hope of marketers!
Feel good about yourself and do you. Realize that if God wanted us all the same, he surely would have created us in that way. Know that you're different and even weird for a reason, you probably think and act out of the box. You have an inner substance that can often go unrewarded and definitely not celebrited. As a society, we can care less about character and integrity, we are more focused and concentrated on who made Forbes 100 list, first week sales of our favorite artists or ones we hate, the latest celebrity rumors and scandals. Our real time life can be challenging and not as vibrant as our favorite celebrities' seem. Beauty and fashion magazines can make us want to puke, when we see the beautiful people grace the covers and perfectly posed in fashion spreads that we know took a team of beauty professionals to create. Still we feel dissatisfied at our own lot in life, what we already have! In order to feel and look beautiful for the long haul, you have to feel good on the inside and bypass all the forced media of what beauty is or should be. We know this as we watch biopics, documentaries, shows like "Behind The Music"...most declare the depression, aloneness and desperation they experienced at the height of their success. We don't have much compassion for the "poor little rich girl" syndrome because they have what we want, heck, they're rich and famous and often quite beautiful, so what do they have to cry about? It's biblical that "money answers all things" and it truly can buy you some comfort and freedom, but it can't make you happy in itself!
Feel good about yourself and do you. Realize that if God wanted us all the same, he surely would have created us in that way. Know that you're different and even weird for a reason, you probably think and act out of the box. You have an inner substance that can often go unrewarded and definitely not celebrited. As a society, we can care less about character and integrity, we are more focused and concentrated on who made Forbes 100 list, first week sales of our favorite artists or ones we hate, the latest celebrity rumors and scandals. Our real time life can be challenging and not as vibrant as our favorite celebrities' seem. Beauty and fashion magazines can make us want to puke, when we see the beautiful people grace the covers and perfectly posed in fashion spreads that we know took a team of beauty professionals to create. Still we feel dissatisfied at our own lot in life, what we already have! In order to feel and look beautiful for the long haul, you have to feel good on the inside and bypass all the forced media of what beauty is or should be. We know this as we watch biopics, documentaries, shows like "Behind The Music"...most declare the depression, aloneness and desperation they experienced at the height of their success. We don't have much compassion for the "poor little rich girl" syndrome because they have what we want, heck, they're rich and famous and often quite beautiful, so what do they have to cry about? It's biblical that "money answers all things" and it truly can buy you some comfort and freedom, but it can't make you happy in itself!
You have to define yourself, remain true to yourself by keeping it 100...100 percent to the best of your ability in terms of what's right for you, "doing you," your compromise and the necessary concessions you have to make! We women have to separate external factors and demands such as beauty, material possessions, career building and aging from clouding who we really are and true self worth. So feel good as often as you can about yourself. Since we can't single handedly change the worl, we can change our environment, brighten up our surroundings and make each day as special as we can!
"To Thine Own Self Be True" -- William Shakespeare
Janelle Monae pictured above is keeping it 100, by not compromising and taking a convention path musically. She's strikingly beautiful and could have easily given you the music video sex vixen, instead Janelle presents melodic, thought-provoking music and moves that would make James Brown proud! Her current album ARCHANDROD is available in stores now and online!
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