This 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:

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.

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.

When 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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