Perch Your Wings on HOPE!

As I venture on to this new phase in my life, I realize how important it is to have HOPE. Hope is the thing that we perch our wings on, it is the anchor that allows us to soar into new territory. Hope is necessary to allow us to continue dreaming--- it stabilizes our soul, and allows the spirit to take charge, as to take the mind, to places we can only imagine.

Hope merely requires lying down all of our preconceived notions and believing in our heart and minds that, what we desire and dream are in our reach. Hope without action is futile, hope is an action word it must have words and behaviors connected to it, in order for it to metamorphosize before you.

Every step we take toward that in which we hope, gets us one step closer, to that in which we envision. Each step teaches us how to manage the next. However, the key is to embrace each step and allow them to teach and mold us into our new self.

Life is a series of releasing the skin of our old selves as to make way for our new selves. We must nurture the ability to let go of the old as to embrace the new .Our new skin is rooted in parts of who we were and all of the steps we have taken towards who we aspire to be.

But without an action filled HOPE for our new selves, we remain cloaked in our old skin. Much like a tree, our bark...peels naturally... to reveal a fresh and new skin. But the key is to stay in a state of continual renewal..as to get to your new skin.

Hope for a new you only requires stepping out of the old skin and embracing the new. A beautiful, glowing new skin that you HOPED FOR awaits you!

Go Forth And Do Amazing Things!

Kind Regards,

Pauline

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