Find Your Inner First Lady

Journey to Your Inner First Lady- Daily thoughts- by Tatia M. Harris

“How the H**L did I end up here?” Do you ever wake up some days and wonder why your life is the way it is?? Wonder what might have been if you had made different or better choices? Dream for what could have or should have been?

I think there comes a point and time in everyone’s life when a little self-analysis is good for the soul. For the past few years of my life I have been undergoing a self-analysis and re-birth if you will, I did not like the person I had become and decided I needed to make some major changes in my life. The first being to live by the commandment “Thou shall not be a doormat” and the second being “Thou shall love yourself because you are fabulous.”

Once upon a time in a land far away, I was a beautiful princess who believed that I could accomplish any goal I set and have any dream I desired. I just knew that I was the best and brightest star in the universe. I imagined for myself a life of jet-setting, excitement and a “special someone” to share my world. Somewhere along the way I let other people’s jealousies, insecurities and perceptions change who I knew that I was and I began a slow descent into a life that I never imagined I would have. Instead of running a corporation, I was running in fear; instead of having self-confidence, I experienced self-doubt, instead of crowning accomplishments; I was struggling spiritually, emotionally and financially. Damn! I wasn’t living a fairy-tale … I was trapped in a nightmare!! So the princess took a look in the mirror one day and didn’t like the reflection looking back at her and decided to break out of the cage she had created for herself.

So here I am.

I am going to keep a daily journal of my thoughts and hope that you will join me on a journey of self discovery. Together we will find our voice and strengthen our voice so that it will heard ringing loud and clear. “ I am fearfully and wonderfully made!” that is my favorite verse from Psalm 139. I am finding out that the more I like myself, the more I love myself; and the more that I love myself the better I am able to handle all of the things that life throws my way. I think I can say that while I’m not living the life that I imagined for myself … it’s not too late to accomplish the dreams I had as a starry-eyed seventeen year old girl with her head in the clouds. I’m like the Israelites in the old testament- wandering around in the desert for forty years trying to figure out what was going on and learning lessons the hard way. So at forty-three I am renewing my acquaintance with Tatia Marie Harris, an old friend from way back who vowed to one day rule the universe by creating wonderful stories that would inspire people, invoke intelligent discussion and make her own little corner of the world a better place to be.

Join me won’t you?? Until the next day………………

Find your blessing and give thanks for it.

Tatia