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30 Jun 2010 What Do You Have To Complain About?
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Complaining CatThis morning the book I took on the bus to read was a book of wisdom notes by Dr Mike Murdock. One of the notes that stood out to me was the following:

Never complain about what you permit.

What a powerful rebuke no? How many times do you and I permit a situation and then when it actually happens we get upset.

But you might be asking, in what ways do I actually permit a situation?

There are three main ways you permit a situation to happen (that could have been prevented):

  1. Deliberately ignore the signs of something growing simply because you really don’t want to deal with it. This is the delusion of “if I ignore it, it will go away”.
  2. Lose your focus because of distractions. You did not even see it coming because you were too distracted.

    3. li>Talk yourself into it (or think yourself into it). Negative words thought and/or spoken can get you and I into more trouble than we realize.

Prevention is always better than cure right?

The solution is:
So many situations in our lives can be prevented. How?

  • Take courage to confront a small situation before it becomes a big one.
  • Stay alert to what is happening around you. So many things (especially accidents) happen in our lives in a split second of distraction.
  • Make sure that you are speaking and thinking positive words every day.

Don’t waste time complaining about what you permitted.

  • Learn from it.
  • Focus on the solution and the recovery plan.
  • Fill your mind with positive words, motivational and problem solving solutions (which you will find when you read good non fiction books every day).
  • Follow your recovery plan.
This is the way to turn weaknesses into strengths and
obstacles into opportunities.

JillWhen you and I accept the responsibility for our mistakes, learn from them and determine to recover from them life can only get better – and it does!

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29 Jun 2010 Fear Is A Developed Habit
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Little Girl AfraidLast night I was listening to a conference call with John Di Lemme entitled *17* Motivational Tips to DEFEND against the Brutal Onslaught of Fear!

One of the 17 tips that most stood out to me was:

Fear is a developed habit.

I was studying a book about Accelerated Education when I visited my sister last year, and there I came across an interesting statistic. It was reported that Jack Canfield once sent a team of researchers out to accompany 100 school children for a whole day. They were asked to note every negative and positive statement or comment that were spoken by these youngsters. Here are the astounding results:

  • The average positive comments spoken were 72 while
  • The average negative comments spoken were 684!

How could this happen?
A very high percentage of the words that surround you and I every day are predominantly negative. The children mentioned above were repeating what they were hearing AND at the same time, they were developing habits.

What kind of habits? Habits of speaking negatively.

Your daily habits are developed by what you think,
what you decide and what you do.

Because of the multitudes of negative words that surround you every day, if you are not making a conscious effort to think, decide and act positively, the habits you are developing will be negative ones.

This means that if you are not making a conscious effort every day to think, speak, decide and act in faith, you will by default be developing a habit of fear.

Mm, could this be true? Yes because the default attitude in this world is fear!

First two steps to take you from fear to faith:

  1. Recognize that your decision to create a faith habit is a decision to enter into a battle.

    Why? Because you are deciding to go against the main flow of this world.

  2. Make a firm decision that you WILL fight against all fear and negative words by developing faith habits.
The best way to change a wrong habit is by developing a right one.

Three daily steps to turn fear into faith.

  1. Read and watch good strong motivational and inspirational teachings every day.
  2. Make declarations and affirmations of faith that are targeted at the areas of your life where you discover there is fear.
  3. Make affirmations of faith targeted at your dreams and goals.


Above all – ACT in faith.
Make notes on everything motivational that you read and watch and act on them. Do what you are affirming and declaring.

JillFaith words – faith decisions – faith ACTIONS – create your faith habits.

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