Rolanda Perkins

  Here we are… the last month of the year, the last week in this month & the last Wednesday of 2021. We’ll never see these days roll around again and they’ll just be a memory in our minds, soon. This past year, we either experienced victories or challenges, ( sometimes both ). Regardless of what life threw at us, we persevered until we made it through, and we always expected the most favorable outcome.  KUDOS to all of us for standing strong and staying the course!t Here’s to that same optimistic mindset in 2022!!  😊

  There have been times in my life when I let things consume me. I would let them take over my entire day. I would worry about them constantly and lose sleep over them. I would ponder about what I was going to do concerning them and how the issue would get resolved. I wasted  SO  much time allowing my mind to be engrossed with unnecessary worries. Why didn’t I just think to turn those situations around and simply consume less? Less stress, less anxiety, less time worrying about things that I often had no control over. At times we let life, children, work, finances, responsibilities, even world events overwhelm us to the point that we try fixing those things ourselves.  OK… let me speak for myself!  I would get so caught up in the how, the why, the what, etc, … that I forgot to  look to the WHO  that could ultimately resolve the issue(s). My focus was always on three people…. “ Me”, “Myself” and “I”!! How was  I   going to resolve that problem  myself? I was putting so much unnecessary

We can be in a good space and everything seems to be moving in the right direction for us when something changes and forces us to have to re-evaluate our lives. Sometimes these changes are choices that we make, and other times they’re situations totally outside our control.    Over the weekend, savage storms tore through the Southeastern region of the United States , caus ing massive damage and loss of life. As some people were being interviewed on the news, they talked about how they lost everything and would have to start over. Even though they were sad and upset about what had occurred, they were also very grateful as well and at times, their gratitude seemed to overshadow their grief.    Their stories have been both heartbreaking and inspiring as well. Heartbreaking because of the loss that they’ve endured. Some lost family members, friends, neighbors, pets, and possessions. And on the other hand, their stories have also been inspiring because of their resilience, tenac

  My brother and I had a great conversation the other day about events in his past that brought him to where he is in life today. There were some things that he’s had to endure in life, ( just like we’ve all had to at some point in time ), that helped change his mind about his future. In fact, his focus was mainly on music, with absolutely no glimpse and/or interest of the medical profession in view anywhere!! However, since he’s ventured into this profession, he continues to rise higher and higher and is always interested in learning where this field can take him next. I continue to be impressed at the way in which he challenges himself to rise higher from one area of the medical profession to another. Needless to say, he never imagined that he would  ever  be doing what he’s doing today…  and absolutely loving it !!! Well, if we don’t realize anything else, we understand that there will be a time when we too will receive that  wake-up call  that’ll inform us that it might be benefici

  I remember years ago when I was trying to discover what  my purpose in life was. I would always hear people talk about having a purpose, and it became  so  frustrating for me because I had  no  idea what my purpose could be. I was so focused on  me…me… me … that I wasn’t thinking about what I could do to be of service to others. Here’s the crazy part… Once I took the focus off myself, that’s when things started presenting themselves to me. “Go figure”!  😊 I was searching outside of myself, to find what my purpose could be. However, when I began to search within, embrace, and focus on the events that were already occurring in my life, ( or those that had occurred in the past ), I was able to use those instances to help define  my purpose . Once I began figuring out ways to use those circumstances, the self-induced pressure that I put on myself, began to lift off me.  I didn’t start off doing anything big. In fact, I took baby steps and kept walking in the direction of my purpose,  wi