Category: Self Help

We have been traveling quite a bit lately and I’ve been in a vacay mode. I don’t know if we realize what all we do and what it takes to unplug.

I have written and published two books in a fairly short amount of time, and actually worked on one pretty hard while I was on my last vacation.

I have lately been working on getting a video going for a FB ad. It’s getting there little by little. I have learned that you have to let up and go with the flow a little.

I love what that is saying! Sometimes we just need a break from what we are doing, so that we can continue moving forward.

I have a coach that is helping me with the phase that I am in now. I love coaches, I always have loved direct sales companies because I have loved the relationships and the way mentors help you walk through life.

My coach that I have now had a home in Hawaii. When I first started working with her, the lava wasn’t near her home, then it crept closer…one day she mentioned that she had to move out. I know that she had to just be devastated, but didn’t ever bring that into our coaching calls.

Finally, I had to wait a couple of weeks because she had to move to the United States. I had relationship with her so I was on this journey with her. Just recently she had to postpone a call because her WiFi wasn’t hooked up yet. Then, I had to change it again because my granddaughter’s ballgame had been postponed and her parents couldn’t be there.

When we finally got on the call, my information that I was going to use, was no where to be found. We were going to postpone again but it would have been during my vacation. That’s when she said,

” Do you need some time off? Why don’t you just take a rest? When you come back you will be refreshed and we will be ready to go.” She also said, “I’m really glad that you got to go to your granddaughter’s ballgame too.” Wow all of those words were so soothing and I believe that when I return home, I will be refreshed and ready to start back new and I think we need to remember that everyone around us may need some grace and a break today.

Don’t quit….rest!

Remember to bless others!

Have a little empathy!!

Enjoy your day!!

You deserve it!!

See you soon!!❤️😘

You know, something I have learned lately is that the little bitty nuggets are where the gold is. Things that someone flippantly says under their breath… the butterfly that keeps landing on you… the nuggets of truth that someone keeps trying to share with you but you aren’t getting it… the things that are deep and you have to dig a little for.

What I’ve been noticing about me is that if I’m chasing too many other things, I miss the still, small voice that was put inside me to listen to. That inner voice that is telling me the secret path I am supposed to walk on. The path that is only mine that no other human can understand. I am very careful to help people, but let them be on their own path, I don’t want to be leading people away through control or manipulation.

Isn’t that the truth? Normal is status quo to me, and by following my own path it keeps me from being status quo. I have stuck my head out of the box enough that I know I can’t stick my head back in and stay there! I hope you stick your head out of the box too!💜 That’s where the creativity is and that’s where your voice is. That’s where you find your power…a power greater than you! That’s one of the 12 steps of recovery…it’s number 2….”Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.”

Insanity to me is being in a box, it is not being and feeling free to be who you are, doing what you are meant to be doing! It’s not being able to grab onto the gold and run with it!! What I love about recovery is that we get to love all of the people… I’ve always loved all of the people so I didn’t fit in the box!! I can love atheists, I can love Muslims, I can love gays, I can love everyone!! I like that freedom!! I think God is like that!! I think He doesn’t condemn, I think He loves!!

His love is so great that it heals!! It heals judgements that people have made about you, it’s heals lies that you have thought about yourself, it crosses every boundary and jumps over every wall to make you feel special!! It never fails!!

He’s still working on me!!

Stick your head out you won’t be sorry!!

His love never fails!!

You have a special gift and voice no one else has!!

You were created for a special purpose!!

Don’t give up!!

See you soon!!❤️😍

Loyalty and honesty are some pretty important things in my book. I guess you could say that they are prerequisites for people that are going to get most of my time.

Life is just too precious to spend around people that aren’t really encouraging about your dreams and destiny. As I move along in that, I find that honest, sincere people who say what they mean, mean what they say, and don’t say it mean are Golden to me.

It seems that God is blessing me with special people just like that because He knows I love and need lots of encouragement to keep moving forward and to stay confident in doing so!! It’s like He’s showing up with skin on.✝️

He likes to show up like that for us when we jump out there and do things for Him that we aren’t capable of and really don’t know how to do!! Sometimes it’s all about the action!!

You get that? Faith without works is dead! In other words having Faith without stepping out somehow to prove it makes your Faith dead and without purpose!! So I encourage you today… take that step of faith!! Take that action!! I KNOW if you do…HE will show up with skin on!!

We can learn a lot from hard to deal with people but we’ve GOT to have loyal, honest people in our lives!!

Sunday when I went into church… my friend said, “Oh I’m so glad you are here!! I have something for you from my trip!!” And it was in this bag:

Soooo that made my day!! You know what? That made me want to pay it forward to someone else… there were 2 young boys with long faces sitting not too far away so we asked them out on a date to eat pizza with us this week!! That shows what an impact that wonderful people can make in your life!! They give you the strength to keep on keeping on!!

Step out in Faith!

Keep on keeping on!

He shows up with skin on!

It’s sure to happen!!

Have a fab day!!

See you soon!!❤️😘

Just last night I posted this on my Pier 7 Restorations Facebook page and it seemed to make a stirring in people!

It really spoke to me also! One reason it spoke to me is because I actually lost my voice and what I wanted to say for about 10 years!! Some of it was from past trauma…I was raped at knifepoint at 23 years old.

Some of the reason for losing my voice is because I am a natural born nurturer and people pleaser! Some of it was because religion just literally tried to take me over and make me into something that “it” wanted me to be so I started pretending I was that!!

Don’t ever be something that you are not, so that you can please someone else!! You were born to be passionate, you were born to excel! You were born to shine…even if you may shine brighter than your leaders have ever understood!! There is no hierarchy in God’s Kingdom!! No competition!! We are all equal and used in our own unique gifts!

If you feel something dimming your light and snuffing you out…step back and think about it…do you need that? Is it helping you walk out your destiny? Is it exactly where you are supposed to be right now? The choice is yours!! Your God will not do that to you!! He created you for HUGE things! He is applauding you for any victory that you make!!

He wants to take any trauma that you’ve experienced and use it to help others!! You really are the only one that some people may feel comfortable talking to!! Don’t let any obstacles, rules, circumstances hold you back!! You were made to change the course of history possibly!!

Don’t be put in a box!!

Shine right where you are!!

The time is now to shine!!

Let me know if you are having trouble finding you!!

You rock just the way you are!!

No more games!!

If it’s going to happen… it’s all up to you!!

You have permission as of today!!!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼❤️

See you sooooon!!😘❤️

Jillspier7@hotmail.com

Honestly if correction is coming from someone that I trust, I DO love it. To me correction is different that judging. Most people in our lives don’t qualify to just be correcting us all the time.

I think correction should come from a place of such love that I know they are out for my welfare and sincerely want to spare me some trouble in my life.

Proverbs calls a man who loves correction a wise man. I have many different sources that I can receive counsel from. I always have because I know that I can get blindsided in life. I am very careful about just who speaks into my life. If someone speaks the wrong think it can bring confusion and wrong direction.

I measure it up with the Bible but people can even twist that around to go their own direction. People go around thumping people over the head with the Bible so much that lots of people stay away from anything to do with it. They pick out things that sound judgmental and slam people with it.

I personally know that God love’s me above anything else and I build on that love above anything else I may read in there. I know it is NOT HIS PURPOSE to correct someone before they know that He loves them. It is about relationship!

I wouldn’t listen as well to someone’s correction unless it’s built on a foundation of love and trust! I would say that most of us need encouragement with our correction!

Love with correction…

Encouragement with correction…

Find a good tribe…

Learn from correction…

Grow from correction…

Be a loving, relational corrector…

See you soon❤️