When I speak to groups my message of , “Just Get Over IT,” I am able to explain just what I mean. If you were going through a difficult time in your life and you took a cursory look at my motto of, “Just Get Over IT”, you may think this would be a mean spirited approach to assisting someone in a very painful place in their life. I would completely agree with you! . Using this term of , “Just Get Over IT”, to someone who is standing beside the casket of someone they loved deeply, would be utterly ignorant and just wrong! When I speak to large groups I use this analogy and explain that, “Just Get Over IT”, should not be used on others but used as a motivator for ourselves.
You see, I know personally how we can endure trying times in our lives. Sometimes life just seems to fall apart on us. I have been guiltyof sulking and try to throw a pity parties for myself in some of these situations. It is in these difficult times that there comes a moment ,whether it is several days, months or even years, where you have a decision to make. The decision is do I continue to set here and have a pity party, or set in a depression, or serious funk, or do I say to myself, “self, Just Get Over IT!!!” “Self, it is time to get on with life and stop allowing life to get on without you.”
There are times when you can have significant issues at school, work, relationships, family and spiritual dilemmas that seem to control the majority of your thought life. This is when you use my motto of, “Just Get Over IT! “ Stop allowing things to control you, you must take control over them. Certainly from a spiritual sense I would encourage you that it is only through Jesus Christ whereby you can have ultimate and complete victory in life;however, I have found that speaking to myself frankly helps me to kick IT into gear!
So when life is trying to kick down your door and it seems that everything is against you, remember what I say, “In life you will have trials, troubles and unfortunately even tragedies, but with faith and a made-up mind, you can find a way through IT, around IT, or do like Jumping Jeff , “Just Get Over IT!!!”
Jeff Clay
Jeff I have really enjoyed reading your writings. I have really had to “Just Get Over” many things in my life. I know how it is to hit the ground hard. I thought It would be better to just keep lying there. The Bible says, “though A righteous man falls He will not completely fall for the LORD UPHOLDS Him!” Thank GOD! I continue to enjoy life and the things I never thought possible again, because of God’s Grace it gave me the power to “Just Get Over IT! I Love It. Thank You.
Robert, I do know you have had to, “Just Get Over IT,” several times but I am proud that you keep persevering!!!