What do YOU Want With Your Life?

What do YOU Want With Your Life?

Most of US don't know what we want with our lives. WHY? Because we have become too comfortable with our pain. "I am too lazy to want to get up and fight for what I want, " or "I am happy with what I got," or I am not a person who deserves more from life."

STOP...Stop pitying yourselves...YOU deserve GREATNESS! You are capable of doing so much more than you realize. You can accomplish great things in your life.

"Okay, Curt, I am here to get ideas on helping me cope with my abuse. I don't need a motivational speech."

(Excuses himself...well, me as I pick up my jaw off the floor)..."I'm sorry, I'm not talking about motivation per se. I am here to challenge you to change your mindset...to improve your self-esteem, henceforth. Okay, so it's motivational.

Then let's do something about it. How can you change your attitude, your mindset to reflect on something more positive? By doing the same thing you have been doing for weeks or months or years?, How is that working out for you?

I didn't think so. So what can you do to get out of the funk your in? 

You do it by changing your mindset. Let me give you some examples:

You Don’t Need to Be Famous to Be Fearless

Not everyone’s fight will look the same.

Maybe your fight is for the environment.
Maybe it’s for your mental health.
Maybe it’s for racial justice, or artistic expression, or LGBTQ+ visibility.
Maybe it’s for raising your children in a world where they feel safe to be themselves.

Or maybe it’s simply the fight to show up every day, true to yourself, in a world that constantly begs you to wear a mask.

True Stories:

Miriam: The Grandmother Who Stood Against Her Church

Miriam, 74, had attended the same conservative church her entire life. But when the leadership began preaching exclusion of LGBTQ+ people and mocking trans identities, something inside her broke.

She stood up in a Sunday service and publicly challenged the sermon. Then she walked out—and never went back.

What followed were death stares at the grocery store, gossip, and even estrangement from her Bible study group. But she also gained something unexpected: a new community of people who felt loved, accepted, and empowered by her example.

“I’d rather be rejected by my church than by my conscience.”

Tyler: The Dad Who Fought for Inclusive Education

Tyler’s daughter has autism. After being repeatedly excluded from classroom activities and denied necessary accommodations, he realized the school wasn’t just failing her—it was failing an entire group of kids.

He began attending every board meeting. He created a local coalition of parents. He educated teachers. He lobbied the district.

It took two years. But today, his school has an inclusive learning program that’s being modeled across the region.

He never planned to become an advocate. He just wanted his daughter to be treated like she mattered.

“They thought they were up against one angry parent. What they got was a movement.”

I can't tell you how to run your life, I can only encourage you to want to change. You're the one who has to look in the mirror and be proud of who you are and what you want out of your life. Change isn't easy, but you already knew that. So get off your BUTT and do something about it. Ask yourself those deep questions: Who am I, and what do I want from my life?

You hold the answers to those questions, so whatever is stopping you...(usually yourself)...stop making excuses and become.

Prayers,

Curtis & Mandie