Soul Food Revolution

One of my favorite sayings…..’It is what it is.’ Life happens. People mess up. People succeed. I often wonder how life would be if instead of worrying about what’s going to happen or how they might react or what people think I focused on what is. And really what is….is me. I can’t control you. I can’t control the guy next to me. I can’t control my kids or my wife or friends. I can only do what I can do and how you respond to that is your decision. Now, this DOES NOT give me the right to not treat you in the best way possible. That’s why I love my little statement, ‘It is what it is.’ If I have done everything within my power at that moment in time to treat you with the best of my ability then I’ve done what I need to do. The rest will play itself out. If I give everything I’ve got to make any given day the greatest day possible then I’ve done what I can do. There’s no need to worry or fret over things I can’t control. Things work out if I’ll just be patient and take the pride and time to act and live to the best of my potential.

Friends, live a life of freedom. In America I hear people literally everyday talk about how we are a ‘free’ country and how we must ‘protect’ our freedom! There’s only one problem with this claim: I don’t see very many ‘free’ people walking around our ‘free’ country. I see stressed people, in debt people, over weight people, people that hate their jobs people, people that regret people, married people that don’t want to be married people, drug addicted people, sex addicted people, work addicted people, depressed people….maybe you’ve seen these type of people too. Maybe you’re one of them. We have become a culture of such radically undisciplined and unfocused people that it’s now a running joke. I was watching a baseball game the other day. A team made a terrible mistake in the field. As the team made this mistake the camera panned to the manager and his grim demeanor. The announcer jokingly responded, ‘That’s why so and so doesn’t have any more hair! His team is making him lose all of it!’ HAHAHAHA….um I find that true story to be a seriously delirious commentary on our culture. We aren’t created to be stressed or in debt or addicted or out of shape or over weight or depressed. No we were created to be powerful, influential, positive, smiling, truthful, focused and motivated. THAT IS FREEDOM! Oh, and this type of true freedom has no need to be protected. Why? Because it can’t be taken!

Don’t get swallowed up in the wave of craziness. Smile, dance,  sing and let things unfold…..because it is what it is.

Cheers,

Mitch