Daily Thoughts:
1. 🛑 saying you stand on business when you don’t. I swear…people run sayings into the ground. People that truly stand on business, it shows.
2. According to some women, everything men do is “sassy”, from being self-sufficient to expressing himself. What’s manly is a woman referring to herself as Alpha. A man has the right to express himself as he sees fit, as long as he’s not a threat to himself or others.
⚠️ Refrain from Announcing GOOD NEWS 📢 prematurely. As it may attract demonic surveillance which brings about delay and possibly destruction!
📚 Learn to Keep things PRIVATE 🤫 until you know they’re PERMANENT, and even after that know you’re not obligated to share your business with anybody!
This is a word. Even if you know some people are genuinely happy for your success, still…your success will speak for itself. I’m very careful who I share my victories with. Some people may think you have something to hide, but you’re protecting your anointing, blessing, etc. because everyone isn’t solid.
Repost from Primrose Lily Smith (Facebook)
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When Being Transparent Is Too Much!
Transparency is defined as the quality of being easily seen through or open and honest. We all want people who are transparent with us! What happens when transparency is too much?
When transparency is too much, you can attract people who are with you but not for you! I’ve come to realize that I’m too transparent. I share good deals, sales, discounts, hurts, pain, victories and defeats. I share goals, dreams, failures and sometimes successes. I share myself, my money, my time and my talents.
I once was blind but now I see…everyone with me isn’t for me. Most around me do not share to the degree that I do! They share just enough to give the illusion of friendship.
Time has revealed that people can be on your team and not want you to win. Those types are would be assassins. I refer to them as would be assassins because no weapon will or shall prosper (Isaiah 54:17). Don’t be like me and give them the weapon(s).
Being too transparent has led me to garnering superficial relationships (friendships). While I look at you as a trusted source, you look at me as a gossip! While I look at you as a confidant, you are a bone collector!
“Honesty and transparency can make you vulnerable, be honest and transparent anyway”-Mother Teresa. I love my ability to be vulnerable. This won’t change; however, I will change those individuals with whom I have been vulnerable, honest and transparent.
Since my transparency has contributed to many superficial friendships, I must be as wise (shrewd, clever) as a serpent, but harmless as a dove (Matthew 10:16).
Great post from this young lady. She broke it down as to why one should be cautious about who they’re transparent with. Some people are so foul that they’ll use your transparency against you. I’m transparent with the right people; everyone else will get bits & pieces until they prove themselves worthy.
Your greatest pain will birth out your greatest promise!
KEEP trusting GOD!
It’s ok to forgive people and still cut them off🫶🏾✌🏾…. I do it all the time 🤷🏽♀️ it’s called balance and keeping your peace ☮️
3 things that don't bother me:
How they feel about me!🤷🏽♀
What they say about me & Why they don't like me!! So Next💅🏽
Reading this puts life in perspective. If we all adopt this attitude, so many of us wouldn’t be worried about why someone dislikes us. For me…I learned early on that not everyone will like me, and I’m fine with that because I know I haven’t given them a reason, so I move on. Life doesn’t stop because someone dislikes you.
Detachment getting real easy for me nowadays. I ain't got time to play with nobody.
You know why mature people mind their business?
Because they understand their life is the only one they can control.
When you get done interfering in somebody else’s life, has your investment portfolio increased?
Is your marriage better?
Has your credit score increased?
Have you pleased God?
That’s why messy people are miserable.
They’ve got nothing to show for all the time they’ve wasted.
They’re still underemployed. An emergency would wiped them out financially. Their diet is still not where their doctor would want it to be. They still need to hit the gym. Their dentist hasn’t seen them all year.
The list goes on!
This is why the blessed should not beef with the miserable, no matter what they try to do or say to provoke you.
Because when they get done starting a fight, a rumor, gossip, their harvest of misery is already waiting on them to return.
Thanks to focusing on you and not building their own life, they’ve got nowhere else to go...
This post by Tera Hodges is worthy of repost:
Everything you own should not be in your name.
You can ask your university (post undergrad universities) to shield your information (degrees obtained) unless they have written consent from YOU with identification.
There’s a reason a #confidentialmarriagelicense is an option.
A skilled family attorney can guide you on how to shield your children’s sensitive information: birth, names, parent, etc.
The people you are the closest with should never be active on your social media.
When you realize someone close to you is faltering, don’t cut them off immediately. Feed them what you want them to repeat. It’s not your fault they’re disloyal. Use their disloyalty for your good. The fault is on them because loyalty would of kept their mouth shut.
Don’t advertise where you work.
When people ask questions, normalize your most immediate response being: why do you want to know. Then, for every reason they give, ask another question pertaining to why.
Your life is your business and you have options!
Once again, the goal is not for PEOPLE to be right about you but for LIFE to go right for you.
Let them wonder how and why you’re so successful.
It’s a beautiful thing to see your enemy shooting arrows they mean for you but they don’t come anywhere near you.
That’s why I don’t post too much personal business on social media because anything you say can & will be used against you. Some people on your page are there to be spies, so they can have something to bring back to so & so. I don’t even add colleagues as friends on my social media for that reason.
If every word from “The Lord” you give has a $ amount attached, you are not a Prophet, you are a fundraiser. Stop lying! Humble yourself! Have integrity and tell the people The Truth!!! You really need help with your rent, child support, car note, etc. Jesus didn’t charge when people came for healing & teaching.
If you pray for discernment, you better be ready for what comes with it. Read this post by Glory Brown Inspiration Coach
Everybody thinks having discernment is so cute and fun to have. But it doesn’t always feel that good when you hug people that you genuinely like and feel that they’re not even for you. Or when people congratulate you on your “higher levels” & say how proud of you they are but you literally feel that they don’t mean a word of it. You FEEL the envy. Discipline and wisdom then has to kick in and makes you say “Thank you” with a smile.
Discernment isn’t always fun to have and you MUST know how to govern YOURSELF with the enlightenment. You can’t get mad. You can’t always call it out. You simply have to accept it for what it is and not be consumed by it.
To the one being consumed by the enlightenment of discernment, I pray that God gives you peace as a companion to your gift! I feel you! I understand!
Not everyone is a friend. There are associates, and there are friends. Know the difference… act accordingly.
Please focus on your assignment, those speaking against you don't matter and those who matter Don’t Talk, they are too focused on their own assignment.
I know how to enjoy life solo. Done it so long that I'm not fazed when someone doesn't want to go out with me. You have to learn how to have fun by yourself.
