by Torrie Oglesby | Oct 25, 2015 | Learn + Grow
Dear 20 something soul,
Something #6
BE THERE FOR YOUR FRIENDS
Time is too short. Life is unpredictable. The time you have with your friends now may not be there forever. People move, get married, get promotions and time vanishes. While you have the time be there for your friends. Boys come and go. Unless He has put a ring on it, don’t ever pass up a moment to be with your girlfriends for him. He can wait. Your friends matter. How you treat them matter. If you want to be close in your thirties then care about them, make time for them, and be there for them in your twenties.
Till next time,
20 something soul
by Torrie Oglesby | Oct 25, 2015 | Faith + Expressions
I’m going to be transparent and admit that I don’t always put time with God at the top of my to-do list. I usually wake up to hungry children who want food and want it immediately. I routinely hit the ground running, preparing breakfast, serving breakfast, getting my coffee, making the beds, getting the kids dressed, and the list goes on and on and on. I often don’t stop until after I lay down which is at 10:30 or 11:00 at night. Throughout the day, I may whisper a “thank you Jesus” but these days I hardly ever, besides on Sunday, get to feed my spirit and saturate it with God and His promises.
This is half my fault and half just the rhythm of the season I’m in right now. But in every season, we need to make time for God. The Bible tells us to be instant in and out of season and to always be prepared and ready with the word of God as our weapon. How can we as mama’s be prepared if we aren’t constantly living off of fresh bread every day and not old bread from last season? So what’s the solution? There has to be some way for a busy mama like myself and you ladies, to capitalize on the small moments that we can have with God.
Our culture has made it hard to rest and hard to be still. However both things are talked about in the Bible as important things to do. As a multitasking mother and entrepreneur it feels impossible to stop and pause and be still in His presence. It’s absolutely vital that every day we are surrounding ourselves with His words, promises, and presence. We can’t let our busy schedules or to-do list come between spiritual disciplines such as worship and prayer. I’ve made a list of at least 3 times throughout the day that we can commit ourselves to so that we can fill up at least 3 times a day! These thing require very little from you (except the last one) yet have the power to transform your day.
- Play worship music throughout the day, start first thing in the morning. Allow it to play in the background while you go about doing your daily tasks.
- Listen to a sermon via Podcast or YouTube video during naptime. You can play this in the background while you clean up, answer emails, or you can just listen to it and take notes. Depending on what your time lets you do, do it. This will be getting The Word into you for the day!
- Write in your prayer journal, nightly, as soon as the kids lay down for the evening. This will give you a moment to reflect over the day, cultivate thankfulness, ask God for help in areas you’re struggling in and surrender the things that you need to lay down at His feet.
With love and big smiles,
Torrie.
by Torrie Oglesby | Oct 20, 2015 | Learn + Grow
I find myself listening to podcast more and more these days! They are completely free, filled with wisdom, and such a great way to get educated on something without reading. I listen to podcast dealing with spiritual things, business things and even stories for my kids. Today I want to focus on podcast that will help empower and encourage you on your business venture! Here’s my top 5 podcast for girl entrepreneurs!
- Build Your Tribe: Chalene Johnson
Chalene focuses on how to build your team for the greater good!! She teaches us the numbers matter, but people matter most and how to cultivate them and create an amazing community!
- Online Marketing Made Easy with Amy Porterfield
Amy Porterfield is a marketing powerhouse! If you need some help with marketing give her a try!
- Boost Your Sales & Lifestyle with Lisa Sasevich
Lisa teaches us how to grow and boost sales that in turn help us grow and boost our lifestyle! If money is your goal, she’s your girl!
- Mixergy—Startup Stories with 1,000 plus Entrepreneurs
Mixergy is awesome because you get multiple stories and perspectives from all kinds of entrepreneurs.
- Happy Black Woman Podcast with Rosetta Thurman
This one is awesome because it’s the only podcast I’ve found that is designed to specifically empower black women! Rosetta is so cheerful and wise and inspirational!
by Torrie Oglesby | Oct 20, 2015 | Lifestyle+Culture
We live in a high-tech digital world that is only going to get more digital with the coming generations. We can order our groceries online and have them delivered at our house, we can text people instead of picking the phone up to call them, and we can even deposit checks into our bank accounts with our phones thanks to technology. If we wanted to, we could avoid human contact all together. We are the generation of likes, apps, retweeting, connecting, friends and emoji’s. While there’s an abundance of screen to screen interaction, face to face interaction is dwindling and with it depression, anxiety, and discontentment are on the rise (everydayhealth.com)
So is this screen to screen interaction really connecting? How do we move with the times but keep the simple act of communicating and really connecting with each other alive? People need people. When we start replacing real conversations and language with text messages and emoji’s we’re creating gaps for the enemy to come in and attack individuals. We need to remember that no amount of connecting online can take the place of actually connecting and getting together with people to be present with them and be a shoulder to lean on or to share a laugh with is crucial.
With our gadgets it’s easy to hide. It’s easy to appear one way but actually be the complete opposite. It’s easy to mask real issues that need to be dealt with. So how do we get back to basics here? Here’s some tips on how to start connecting with the people you love and strangers 90’s style.
- CALL YOUR FRIENDS
Yes, we mean actually pick up the phone and check in on your friends! Once a week make an actual phone call in which you are interacting with someone without texting or through a social media outlet.
- LEAVE YOUR PHONE IN THE CAR
If you are going out to lunch or a movie with a friend or your boyfriend, LEAVE THE PHONE. It’s okay. You don’t have to capture every moment. Be present. Give whoever you are with your full, undivided attention. They deserve it and might even need it.
- Dare I say, GET RID OF SOCIAL MEDIA
Okay, you don’t have to get rid of all the outlets, but maybe try giving up or deleting the app on your phone for a day or two. Watch how this will free up your time and challenge you to connect in different ways. The world will keep spinning if you aren’t tweeting, trust me.
- WRITE A LETTER
Yes. Go get some paper and a pen and write a letter to a friend! This is a good way to brighten someone’s day and an excuse to go to the post office and interact with humans.
With love and big smiles,
torrie
by Torrie Oglesby | Oct 20, 2015 | Lifestyle+Culture
Dear 20 something soul,
Something #5
LAY IT DOWN AT THE FEET OF JESUS
Okay, so despite me telling you to not worry about what others are doing, worrying is unfornately a BIG part of our twenties. If it’s not worrying about one thing, it’s worrying about something else. Our twenties are filled with questions that stress and worry us to the core, for example but not limited to:
- Will I get the job?
- What preschool are we going to send the kids to?
- My car broke down and I have no money to fix it, what am I going to do?
- Do I want to go back to college?
- What’s my passion?
- How do I get out of all this debt?
- Will I ever be able to buy a home?
- Do I have cute clothes for the fall?
- Am I parenting right?
- When will I find my husband?
Ladies, I’m sure you can relate to one or more of those worries. But guess what, not one of us can add on a day to our life by worrying ourselves. I want you to meditate on Matthew 6:25-33. I love the way to Message paraphrase puts it:
“If you decide for God, living a life of God-worship, it follows that you don’t fuss about what’s on the table at mealtimes or whether the clothes in your closet are in fashion. There is far more to your life than the food you put in your stomach, more to your outer appearance than the clothes you hang on your body. Look at the birds, free and unfettered, not tied down to a job description, careless in the care of God. And you count far more to him than birds.â€
“Has anyone by fussing in front of the mirror ever gotten taller by so much as an inch? All this time and money wasted on fashion—do you think it makes that much difference? Instead of looking at the fashions, walk out into the fields and look at the wildflowers. They never primp or shop, but have you ever seen color and design quite like it? The ten best-dressed men and women in the country look shabby alongside them.â€
“If God gives such attention to the appearance of wildflowers—most of which are never even seen—don’t you think he’ll attend to you, take pride in you, do his best for you? What I’m trying to do here is to get you to relax, to not be so preoccupied with getting, so you can respond to God’s giving. People who don’t know God and the way he works fuss over these things, but you know both God and how he works. Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, and God-provisions. Don’t worry about missing out. You’ll find all your everyday human concerns will be met.â€
Trust that word sisters. Meditate on it and let it live inside of you until you truly learn to not worry about a thing!!
Till next time,
20 Something Soul
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