Shifts in life

0:00Good morning, good afternoon and good evening everybody. It's your girlfriend and McQueen with your mind, your body, your choice. I want to talk to you today about life and how it has a way of shifting on us. And if we're honest most of the time, we don't even like the shift, right? We don't ask for it, we don't plan for it, and a lot of times we fight with everything we have to keep that shift from happening. Because where we are feels familiar, even if it's not good for us, it's familiar. And familiar seems safe, but here's the truth. Not every shifting your life is meant to feel good. Some of them are meant to move you. There are shifts that happen in your personal eyes, shifts that happen in your home, shifts that happen in your relationship, shifts that happen at work, shifts that happens in your finances, even shifts within yourself. And yes, I'm saying shifts, shifts you guys.

1:05All right, and when they come, when these shifts come, you can feel like everything is being pulled from underneath you. And you start asking questions like, why is this happening? What did I do wrong? Why now? Why me? And sometimes you don't get those answers right away. And that's the part that really frustrates us the most right. I know it frustrates me because I want clarity in the middle of my confusion. You might want peace in the middle of a chaotic episode. You want to understand why everything still fills upside down, but that's not how a shift works. A real shift will disrupt you before it develops you. A real shift will disrupt you before it develops you. I love some of the things I say sometimes. I don't expect they just come out of nowhere you guys, but it will stretch you before strengthens you. It removes things from your life that you didn't even realize we're holding you back even when you didn't ask for it, even when you don't agree with it.

2:11I've seen shifts happen in ways that didn't make sense at the moment, but later everything came into focus. I remember a situation that stayed with me. There was a child who was growing up in an environment that was extremely hard. And the words spoken to him the way he was treated. It wasn't love. It wasn't what any of us were considered love. Not the kind of love a child should ever have to question. And there were people around him who tried to pour it into him, and they tried to speak life into him, tried to remind him that he mattered, but the environment he lived in every day was louder than anything we could say. Then one day everything changed for him and not in a way anyone would have planned. He was removed from that environment and went to live with a parent he had been kept away from. And what he experienced there was different. So it was stable. It was safe. It was loving. And over time you could see the shift in him.

3:19The way he spoke, the way he carried himself, and the way he loved others. So he grew into a man who didn't repeat what he came from. He became something better. Now hear this, you guys, because you might think I'm talking about myself, but I'm not, I promise I'm not. What I'm saying is what happened to cause that shift was a good thing. I'm saying the shift itself had changed the trajectory of his life, because sometimes a shift comes through loss. Sometimes through separation or discomfort, it'll come through things we never would have chosen and things we can't even see. But what if actually things falling into place is your shift? What if your losing is not meant to go with you? What you think you're losing is what you're really gaining? What if the relationship that just ended that job that didn't work out that job you feel so stuck in and you have been putting in application application and interview after interviewing you're still stuck at this place you hate to be that door that closed?

4:37What if none of this is punishment? What if it's positioning? See, we don't always recognize when we've outgrown a space. Sometimes we need a shift to move us because we wouldn't have moved on our own. We get comfortable, we get used to things, we get settled into routine, even when the routine is inserting you. And then something happens that forces that change and we call it disruption, but sometimes it's direction. So, not every shift feels good, you guys. Right now there are people listening to this who are dealing with shifts that are really, really happy. The cost of living has gone up, groceries costs more, gas costs more, rent mortgages, everything feels like it's increasing. And people who are once comfortable are now trying to figure out how to make it, how to make this money stretch, how to make this work, how are we going to afford to come? Please don't come re, re, what is it called when the people come and take your car in the middle of the night when you're sleeping and you wake up and you think your car has been stolen, repossessed.

5:47It's a real shift and it doesn't feel good. It doesn't feel positive. It's so stressful right now and it's overwhelming and it's unfair. So it's not about pretending every shift is enjoyable. Right. It's about understanding that even in difficult shifts, there's still a purpose. Sometimes that purpose is growth, sometimes it's redirection, sometimes it's exposure, showing what needs to be changed. And sometimes it's strengthening you in ways you didn't even know you needed to be strengthened because pressure reveals things, right. You're under pressure and it reveals your root. It reveals your creativity, that pressure reveals your strength, that pressure reveals your resilience, right. Man, there are people right now learning how to stretch a dollar to build something new to lean on the community and find solutions they never had to look at before.

6:50And once again that doesn't mean it's easy, but it does mean something's being developed. Just because you don't understand the shift right now doesn't mean it doesn't make sense. You might not see it today, you might not see it next week. But there will become a moment when you look back and realize that this had to happen. This shift was necessary. You know, this shift, it moved me, it grew me, it changed who I am, it changed me for a better person, it protected me, it prepared me. And without this shift, I wouldn't be where I am today. So if you're in the middle of a shift right now instead of fighting it with everything in you, take a moment and pause and look at what's changing. Look at what's being removed, look at what being what's being introduced into your life and ask, wow, what is this trying to teach me? What is it trying to show me? What in me is being stretched to the capacity right now, right.

7:53Because every shift carries something with it. And even the ones that don't feel good, especially those that don't feel good y'all, you have to like the shift, right. Just see if you pay attention. No, you don't have to like the shift, but don't miss it because one day you'll see it clearly and when you do, you won't question it anymore. You'll understand it and you'll be grateful that you made it through. And this is funny because yesterday I was talking to a friend on my way home. And we were talking about the stress that so many of us are filling right now and I said, you know, it's funny. It's easy for people to say, well, don't stress about this and don't stress about that while they're in the middle of stressing. But I cannot remember one situation, all those nights I used to not sleep because of stress that took me out of here. I'm still here and I'm still thriving because each one of those situations I was brought through and maybe I didn't see it in the beginning, but I always see it in the end.

8:58And sometimes you even forget that you were stressing about something because it works out and then you move on to something else. Stress is such a worthless thing that we do. It's such a worthless thing that we do, but you guys, you guys, what is being stressed, stressed in you right now? And can you just give it up and realize that it's just the shift and shifts come with a lot of love and intention. All right, you guys, you know who I am. I'm your girl, Sonya, that's so in YA. It is a mic and led by motivation.com and that's led by motivation.com. Send me a message. I'd love to hear from you. And also check out my website. Let me know what you think about it. It's led by motivation outreach.com.

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