Small Victories

I sincerely apologize for my absence over the past couple of days.  Part of this challenge was to write every day, but I have been quite busy.  Last weekend, I became one of the newest members of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated!!!!!!!!!!  I'm excited: goal number 15,987 accomplished! 

It's been five years since I first expressed interest in the organization.  A lot has happened since then, but I never lost sight of what I wanted.  I am learning now more than ever, everything won't happen overnight.  This is certainly a testimony to my spirit that the things I desire are available but sometimes patience is just as important as persistence!

In chatting with one of my best girls, she told me actualizing my dreams and goals can happen as quickly as I want. From that conversation I learned, my 'challenge' to think better can help me manifest my desires faster.

If I keep telling myself I can't or I won't, I am correct about both of those defeating statements.  But if I can eat this elephant (haha, whole new meaning, but I digress) one bit at a time, I can get to a place where success comes every moment. 

If the goals are small along the way and build up to something phenomenal at the end, I've done all I needed to do and not really noticed.  It's almost like one of those pictures that is made up of smaller pictures--each of the little pictures is a complete work on its own (a small success), but when all of the pictures are added to each other, one massive piece of art is created (a big success).

Being an AKA is a great accomplishment in itself because of what it says about me and how I want to brand myself, but there is so much more life to be lived and more to be accomplished from here.  one of my sisters who went through the process with me said of the organization (whose colors are pink and green), "I don't even like pink.  I didn't join for the colors, I joined for the service."   She was dead on.

This is not the end, but the beginning of lifelong service.  See how small the goal accomplished becomes when put in perspective of all to be accomplished in time?   I am not belittling my acceptance into the organization, but better able to relate to the fact that if I treat my ideas of what I want to do as small parts to a larger picture, I think I won't be so high-strung! LOL.  I will be able to clearly and calmly deal with all I seek to do.

And when I can complete one thing, then the next, then the next, I can step back and see everything coming together as it should.  I don't have to whine and cry about what hasn't worked out YET, just move onto the next part of something I can handle in that moment.  Ooh!  Kind of like a Paint-By-Number. (Love those!)  I like to do all one color, which can be a little over here and a little other there, at a time.  By the time I'm done, I have a beautiful masterpiece.

What am I trying to say?  I'm sayin':  I have decided to take lots of small victories along the way to make myself happy and assure myself I am doing things well for myself.  No more broken heartedness over expectations I set that are too high.  I'm over that.

Yes, cheers to small victories.  May they all come together as something awesome to look at and be proud of in the end, but in the moment first!

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