Monday, April 25, 2016

Live the Life of your Dreams


Do you know what you want in your life?
In my quest to conquer depression, I am studying self improvement.
One of my favorite things to do when life gets crazy, is to say the Serenity Prayer.


I am not a religious person, but asking the universe for Serenity, Courage and Wisdom has always been a great way for me to get a handle on what I do and do not have control over.

Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change
Courage to change the things I can
Widsom to know the difference.

The important thing is the wisdom to know the difference.
I am tired of being tired, tired of being depressed and miserable and I DO HAVE CONTROL over these things, I just need to seize control over my own life and create the life I want and deserve!

What are you miserable about? Are you truly living the life of your dreams?
If you aren't, do you know what your dreams are?

If you are depressed, its possible, you haven't given your dreams much thought, it is so easy to get bogged down in the minutiae of every day life and forget to dream.

Watch a child play, ask a child what they want to be when they grow up.... They have such awesome imaginations! They have no fear! Society hasn't told them yet that dreams are just dreams. They truly believe they will achieve their dreams and who are we to spoil that process?

So, whip out your pen and write down anything and everything in your life that makes you unhappy, then, ask yourself if you have any control over your life? Who decides what you can do with your own life, but you! The answer is YOU, you have complete control of your dreams and making them a reality. So, what are you waiting for? Get on with it already, start dreaming!!!! Start planning!!! Start having a joyous and exuberant life! The only thing in your way is you! 

Joie de Vivre



In my eternal quest to remove depression from my life once and for all, I have decided to establish a new outlook, Joie de Vivre, to be my slogan, but there wasn't a blog address that I could embrace around Joie de Vivre, so, I combined it with Carpe Diem and came up with Carpe Vivre, I know, it's half Latin, Half French, but the moral of the story, as I enter my 45th year of life, I have decided to enter it, not depressed, but Seizing Life!

So, without further ado, I intend to find the Joy in life and live each day as if it were my last.