LekzMotivate

When you think about the past I imagine you think about all the great memories/experiences you shared with your loved ones, you might have thoughts on how easy things used to be. You lived in a world where everything seemed to be filled with laughter and happiness. Oblivious about what was to come as you transitioned from adolescence to adulthood. Now as an adult everything you believed about your past/upbringing you now realise was not as glamorous as you thought it was, behind that smile you may have felt abandoned/neglected, you may have seen your parents struggle wondering how they were going to take care of you and your siblings this week, or you may have been exposed to a form of abuse which till this day you are yet to tell anyone because you fear that if you spoke out your perpetrators might punish you. These experiences are enough to make anyone feel  anxious because they don't know what life is going to throw at them next, insecure because...

Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said,  “Listen to me, everyone, and understand this.   Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them.  After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about this parable.  “Are you so dull?” he asked.  “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them?  For it doesn’t go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.)   He went on:  “What comes out of a person is what defiles them.   For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder,   adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly.   All these evils come from inside and defile a person.” (Mark 7: 14-23) ( Bible.com, n.d.). To summarise this verse the...

  I came up with the title "tell me who I am" because I have spent the last couple of months trying to figure exactly who I am. Well, news flash, the fact is that we are constantly figuring out who we are and as we journey through life we are constantly changing. For many years my identity was made up of the environment I grew up in,  my home environment shaped me as well as everything I was exposed to outside of my home. Growing up in South London Peckham had a significant impact in the way I viewed the world, on one hand it made me resilient and on the other hand it made me doubt myself. Not in my ability but in how other people viewed me. Secondly, grewing up in a single parent home where there was love but no affection also impacted me. Rather than learning to accepting who I was it lead me to seek validation from others whether this was amongst my peers, relationships or in my football career. If I wasn't going to get love from home subconsciously I believed  I'l...

  The enemy within I define the enemy within as any external thing that tells us that we are incapable of doing anything we put our minds too, any form of insecurity, lack of motivation , lack of self-love and the list goes on… Everyday when I wake up God reminds me that I am more than capable. My past traumas and mistakes does not define me but the actions I take to respond to my setbacks is a choice that defines all the emotions I feel in the present moment. We are all worthy of a second, third or fourth chance, this doesn’t mean we continue to make bad choices. However, God loves when we try, we are not always going to get things right but what matters is that we are trying everyday to better ourselves. Don't be too critical of yourselves and those that are around you but one key factor is that you hold yourselves and others accountable for their actions. This doesn't mean you go around judging people but learn to guide one another when guidance is needed. We are all in wo...

First of all I have not had the drive, the motivation, the determination to write in a long time. Every week has been a battle, falling in and out of a depressive state can be very challenging. It is crazy to think how one day everything seems to be going well, you feel like you have a sense of direction and all of a sudden you just feel stuck demotivated and not sure that everything you worked so hard for would be worth it. Believe me when I say I've had writers block for a month but I doing whatever I can to really fight back against the forces of depressions, anxiety and negative thoughts. Each day is a battle but I know I have God on my side, I have a great mentor keeping me motivated and I am surrounded by all the right people in my life. Sometimes when your going through a rough patch no one ever really notices, we do so well to hide the things we go through and tend to stay in the dark places alone thinking that no one would understand but these are all lies. God knows exact...

It is a luxury to have your mind in the right state especially in the world that we live today. The enemy will throw so many curveballs at you just to take you off your game. It is so critical that we understand that life is meant to come with its challenges. Without hardship how do we gage our surroundings? How do we know our gifts and really understand what we are capable of. At times we can be so consumed by how hard things are that we forget to recognise the great things that we have and the great things that are currently happening in our lives. We’ve become so prone to blaming people for our setbacks and now it has hampered our ability to move forward. In what world were we told that being successful was going to be easy. We need to fail numerous times before we get it right and through failure we are able to blossom into a better version of ourselves. How we chose to perceive failure will impact what we believe about ourselves and where we believe we are going. Rather than stres...

  A couple of weeks ago I was in a negative place, I had one of those weeks where everything seemed to be going wrong in my head. This feeling not only made me question myself but it made me question where I was going. I knew I needed to readjust myself but I also knew that in order to readjust myself I needed to accept how I was feeling and do whatever I could to prevent making decisions based on what I was going through. Sometimes we find ourselves in these moments and typically in these moments we can revert back to bad habits or do things that we know we will regret in the next coming days and weeks. However, in this instance I did not allow this to happen. I choose to accept what I was going through and decided to do whatever I could to turn my week around. I spent time talking to my friends and family, I gravitated towards things that motivated me and by the end of the week I found myself limping across the finish line. Although, it felt like everything around me was crashing...