Over the last 3 years, I’ve traveled a rocky road: from business demise to financial stress, from a failed marriage to a broken heart. I’ve often felt more like a battle-worn soldier with her legs blown off, trying to elbow her way off the field than a single entrepreneurial mother of six.
I know I’m not the only one. I know a lot of people have been suffering in the last few years … many in a lot worse situations than mine. When life’s relentless daily and monthly demands march incessantly forward, it’s easy to feel hopeless and trapped. It’s easy to lose confidence when what you used to know how to do doesn’t work anymore. You can lose faith in yourself and God when you can’t trust your judgement, inspiration, or your interpretation of it.
“You don’t know anything!”
“Give up!”
“Forget it!”
“Go get a JOB!”
“Forget your dreams. They’re impossible!”
“People obviously don’t want or need what you’re offering.”
Have you heard those words ricochet between your ears?
I know I have. Eventually you get to a place of complete surrender. Your pride is gone. You don’t feel like you have a right to advise anyone else how to live their lives because the world obviously doesn’t work the way you thought it did.
You feel more like a plastic bag floating across a parking lot than a human being with the ability to choose your path.
Today, I was at the gym and I heard the song, “Titanium.” I’ve heard it before, but never paid attention to the words. Today, I decided this is my new theme song.
You shoot me down
But I get up.
I’m bulletproof, nothing to lose
Fire away, fire away
Ricochet, you take your aim
Fire away, fire away
You shoot me down but I won’t fall
I am titanium
You shoot me down but I won’t fall
I am titanium
My friend Martina Muir talks about how we need more than “light, fluffy, energetic shields to protect ourselves. We need shields of fire and metal.” Why not titanium?
So if you’re feeling beat down, as if you don’t have a choice in where your life is heading, crank up this song, sing along and put up your titanium shield!
And remember these lines from Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged
In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice your sense of life to an enemy that would claim your precious mind… Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserve, but have never been able to reach… The world you desire can be won; it exists; it is real; it is possible; it is yours.” – John Galt (Atlas Shrugged III)
About Marnie Pehrson Kuhns
Marnie Pehrson Kuhns is a Certified SimplyAlign Practitioner™ who uses music and creativity to mentor you past barriers, fears and doubts to discover, create, align with, and deliver your soul’s song (the mission, message or purpose you are on this earth to live). Marnie is a best-selling author with 31 fiction and nonfiction titles. If you'd like Marnie and her husband Dave to work with you personally on Your Great Reinvention, get a FREE 20-minute strategy session with Marnie here.
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