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09 Mar 2010 Your Greatest Asset Or Liability – You Choose
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Shut out negative wordsThe greatest asset or liability in your life is your thinking process

John Maxwell.

Yours and my thinking process is influenced by three main areas: Words – Decisions – Mindset.


Words:
Last year I was studying a book about “Accelerated Education” and came across a very interesting story.

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!

So the conclusion is that you and I grew up hearing a LOT more negative words than we heard positive words.

Consequently you spoke and thought more negative words, and this caused your thinking process to become a liability in your life.

However because you are reading this, I know that you have already declared war on all negative words and thoughts in your life. You are already on the road to turning what was a liability into an asset.

Decisions:
Every experience in life causes you and I to make a decision. Our decisions are greatly influenced by our mindset or the framework of our minds.

This can be a vicious circle because every new decision either reinforces your mindset or challenges it. It is always easier to “go with the flow” and allow yourself to reinforce the framework already built in your mind.

However you DO have the ability to make new decisions which may challenge and even start to rebuild the existing framework in your mind.

This does take effort and is the reason that so many people give up and allow their lives to continue on the same old track.

Mindset:
When you discover negative tendencies in your thinking process and make a strong decision to change that you have declared war on your old mindset.

At the same time, you have used the strength of your will to decide you CAN and WILL change your thinking process so that it will become your greatest asset.

The strength you need to make this decision every day and follow through with it will be greatly supported by your daily diet of what you read, listen to and hear.

Every day you will decide to build your new mindset by what you allow to enter the gateways of your life (your five senses).

As you face life’s experiences resolved to stay positive, speak and think positive words and always look for solutions not problems you are making decisions that will change your mindset.

JillYou are rebuilding the framework of your mind (or mindset) that will allow you to build a life of abundance.


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05 Mar 2010 Discipline Or Regret – You Choose
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Last evening I was listening to an interview with Jim Rohn, and of all of the golden comments he made, one stood out above them all. He said:

You always have just two choices in life – discipline or regret. Jim Rohn.

This makes a LOT of sense.

  • You choose to discipline yourself and pursue your why.
  • You understand that this will mean a lot of hard work and daily training. But your discovery of your why (your dreams and your passion in life) is fresh when you first make this choice. So everything is still exciting.
  • You have decided to push through to achieving your dreams, and you understand that there is a cost. But that is fine – your emotions are high.
Then the rubber meets the road.

These choices you made are DAILY choices.
How easy it would be if we could make such choices when we are feeling great, and then somehow “automatically” our minds and our bodies would cooperate every day, no matter what the circumstances.

But you and I know that this is not the case.
I understand why the apostle Paul declared “I die daily.” He was saying, I make a fresh choice EVERY DAY to pursue my goals, to pay the cost (of disciplining myself and when necessary of making sacrifices).

In other words:

I choose every day to follow my decisions – not my emotions.

Decisions are not made in our emotions. They are made with our wills. Then our emotions follow. They have to, as long as our decisions are firm.

The moment you succumb to your emotions and let them rule, you are in trouble. I am sure you have discovered that at some point in your life right?

Even if you choose to take a break from your daily training program just for a day or so – guess what happens? You know right? It is so much harder to return to your routine, and then it is so much easier to give up.

So the reality is that when you and I do NOT choose discipline, the default choice is regret.


Why regret? Because without the discipline to focus, train and work towards your dreams, you will not achieve them and then you will live to regret it.

I had never thought about this before, not in this way – (to coin one of Jim Rohn’s expressions). Had you?

Life is full of choices – some of them are conscious and others are made by default. The key is to be aware of what we are choosing.

JillWhat do you choose today?
My choice is to serve the Lord and the dreams He put in my heart.


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