Grandad's Gems - Grandad AO's Blog

   FAILURE'S AND LOSSES Why do we hide our L’s? I get that it's humiliating, embarrassing, personal, shameful, it feels wrong and weird to talk about. As if it's illegal  Hiding L’s makes it seem as if we don't take them As if we our the only one who has taken that L.  Doing this only isolates us when we are going through it.  Be aware that people are going to laugh but ONCE you have ACCEPTED IT. It shouldn't bother you. I know that when I messed up my hair cut everyone was laughing, and back then, I was embarrassed because WHOO is proud of a dead trim? but now that I've gone through it and accepted that I messed up. I honestly do not care. I'll laugh myself. Maybe because its much easier to talk about something we've gone through, rather than something we are currently going through. But its still a step closer.  I think we should start being more open about them. When we all open and honest about our failures it make...

Hello I'm back again. This time with a short story... a story about how I WAS INFLUENCED.  I was walking down the street on my way home from library and I bumped into my friend from university. Normally with us its just a quick ' Yo' and 'Whats good?' this time we actually stopped for a short conversation... Now this conversation was literally about 30 seconds . He came across as so happy while speaking to me that it actually made me happy ! Not to say that I was down in the dumps or anything but he was able to boost my energy , making me even happier, though all we said was what we were about to do... FYI he said "I'm good bro, just about to go gym." I replied "oh, that's calm, I'm about to go season chicken for the week." Many of you reading must be really confused about why I felt so happy after this interaction or even what influenced me and I don't blame you. Its extremely hard to describe what it ...

THE BEST YOU  Keep working on yourself until you are the best version of yourself. If your someone that wants the very best life they can possibly live then the only way you can do that is by being the best you. I know I’m saying best a lot but that’s because it’s just that simple. While listening to this, In fact, write down the attributes, habits, traits etc that the best version of you will have.  Then once you have done that go onto working out how you can obtain them.  The best version of me is happy, financially stable, has a gym body, always organised, reliable, focused, giving, caring, healthy, close relationships to God, independent, disciplined, happy, loved, open-minded, communicative, productive, doing what I love and there for my people.   In my personal opinion, these are the connotations that come with me being the best version of myself. What thoughts come to you when you think of the best version of you...