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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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25 Jun 2010 Worry Is Wrong Meditation
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Lady looking worriedThe latest book that I am reading is “The Laws of Thinking” by Bishop E. Bernard Jordan. In one of the early chapters I found this quote:

Worry is meditation in the wrong direction.

That is powerful right? We could also express this truth by saying:

  • Worry is meditating in the bad things that could happen.
  • Worry is meditating in the worst possible outcome of a situation.
  • Worry is inviting fear into your life.

Why use the word “worry” and not “think”.
Certainly worry does take place in your mind. But worry does not stop at one thought. When you worry your mind is set to automatic replay right? You rehearse the situation and all of the possible negative outcomes over and over again in your mind.

I am sure that you have been through many difficult situations in life and perhaps gone through sleepless nights because of them. I know I have.

There was a time in Mexico when a coworker turned against me and even tried to twist a situation and sue me.

One of my circle of counselors, instead of building up my faith for some reason spent his time telling the worst that could happen. This was not his normal strategy, so it was obvious the enemy was at work. He had me visualizing a situation so absurd it is now laughable. (No it was NOT his fault, I accepted what he was saying and allowed myself to visualize it).

I could visualize the authorities coming down the steps of the land where my rented bungalow was to get me. I had actually done nothing wrong, and this would never have happened, BUT I still lost sleep over it.

Why? Because I believed in the worst and let my mind go over and over the possibility until it was so real it almost happened. Not in reality, but in my reality at the time.

Do you see how real negative influences can be in our lives. Yet how destructive? God is good and despite my fear that the time there was a positive outcome.

What a lot of wasted energy went into the situation though. All of that worry.

Believe me, when you face a difficult situation, once you entertain a negative thought or idea you set yourself up for replays. Once you allow your mind to replay negative thoughts and ideas, fear enters and your creativity to find solutions is paralyzed. Of course there is also the danger of the “self fulfilled prophesy”. Your thoughts certainly CAN attract outcomes.

So what is the solution to worry?

  • Don’t even allow the first negative thought to stay in your mind.
  • Immediately force yourself to think of all of the positive outcomes the situation could have.
  • Discipline your mind to meditate on these outcomes. (Remember worry is meditation going the wrong way, so by meditating in the right direction you leave worry behind).
  • Visualize the victory in the situation. How will you feel?
  • Above all, always be determined to conquer.

Don’t forget a winner’s mindset needs to be built. This means spending time every day to build up your mind by spending time learning from positive books, recordings and videos (Download some free recordings and videos here).

JillMake this your daily habit and it will be so much easier to always meditate on the good, and so avoid the perils of worry.

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