September 22nd, 2016: 2 Broke Girls

For this 16th episode, this one is a little different. As every now and then, since about 2008, I make my entries live online on BlogSpot!! Yup, bet you didn’t even know I bloged, I guess it was Queen Shh before Queen Shh. 

Anyway, this one is a GEM that is SO appropriate for RIGHT now!! It’s the move, it’s the wave, it’s the reminder.  I was in a space the night I recorded this that completely filled my soul and it was in complete alignment with the message.  #StarsAligned

Key themes from reflection on this entry:

· Use media, don’t let it use you!  I learn from everything!  Formal education, on the job experience, books (fiction and non-fiction) music, and of course TV!!  If you’re not familiar with the show 2 Broke Girls, get familiar, and thank me later.  It’s hilarious and full of lessons.

·  Challenge your default perspective. Someone taught you those defaults, do they really fit you now, do they fit your future and your destiny?  Can you change them, is there more to what you think you have always known?

· BIGGER, think, feel, know, see, and expose yourself to bigger!! That’s the message, lound and clear.

· Take the leap, JUMP!!! YOU have to be obedient, and it starts with what you believe is possible, then taking that down to what you believe is possible for you.  Two very different things. The DOPE part, you can keep leveling up on this, you think you’re at the pinnacle, but you have no idea! 

· Look for the teachers in your life you may be overlooking because you have put them in a box.  Sometimes we assume we know the meaning of something, and we overlook everything else it could be.  Sometimes we are too close to people, or we have known them too long so we don’t see all of them anymore and can miss what they came into our lives to teach us.  People are beautifully infinite and infinitely beautiful.  How dare we think we can limit them to one small schema in our minds, one descriptor or category.  See your teachers for who they are, lean in and then learn some more.  Don’t forget, you’re also teaching every single person you meet, so carry yourself accordingly.

 

Queens sometimes need other queens to remind them who they are.  It’s important that we gather.  Doesn’t matter if its virtually, in-person, on a phone call, we just need to share real-time space with each other to remind us of who we are and what we came to do.

- What are you doing, thinking, dreaming that needs to be BIGGER?

- Who are you great teachers in life?

- Who are you teachers in this season?

- Is there something you have been thinking about all wrong? Are you missing the point of something that keeps repeating in your life?

Author, poet, spoken word artist and emcee Opal Ellyse has been keeping handwritten journals since 1995.  Each week she shares an entry and ties it to current events and relevant topics of conversation.  Royalty is living in your legacy while you're still here.  Understanding your past and bridging it to the present (and future) is a gift.  Join Opal as she shares wisdom from the past as it becomes present day epiphany and a blueprint for all that is next. 

Enjoy!

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