Posts tagged Negative Thoughts
Life’s a Journey Not a Destination – Enjoy Your Commute
Nov 17th
I was driving on the highway the other day and a sign said, “Enjoy Your Commute”. I thought to myself, “Thank-you, I am”, and not just the road I was driving on, but the road of life.
Sure, there are still moments or days where I feel like I’ve hit a pothole, so to speak, where I wasn’t able to steer away from that one. Some are a little bigger than others, in fact, a few may even seem like the Grand Canyon, but the difference is I now remember that the road of life is under construction as well as paved with gold.
It wasn’t always that way though. There were many years where I felt I was always taking detours, or stuck in the traffic of negative thoughts, or feeling the road rage inside myself or the receiver of someone else’s, or my internal GPS system had completely shut down and I was lost, or questioning if the passengers in my life received their licenses from a Cracker Jack Box. Then I questioned my own and realized perhaps I also received mine from there.
You see, life is an ongoing journey, not a destination, and how much or little you enjoy the commute is really up to you.
Think of your life like a highway. Sometimes you can set the cruise control and motor right along and other times you are stuck in a traffic jam, or having to take the next exit, or there’s an unexpected delay and you are stuck, or the weather is a little tricky and your knuckles are a little white as you grip the steering wheel with all your might.
You might even be like the driver in who’s tooting his horn, or yelling at other drivers, or telling them how they should drive, or not letting them in, or cutting them off all together.
Perhaps you want to be like Mario Andretti on the race track and speed through to the finish line.
You can’t control the road conditions, or the events that occur in your life, but you can steer the way you encounter and move through them.You can slow down, take a look around, and open yourself up to the miracles and mysteries that life has to offer you.You can choose to see the negatives or the positives.You can enjoy the simplest of pleasures throughout the day, or none at all.You can be thankful for what you have or bemoan what you don’t have.You can reach out or go it alone.You can believe or give up.You can embrace or brace yourself.You can find a different route or stay on the one you are on.You can choose to stay stuck or move through what’s occurring.You can be the light or the darkness.You can be of peace or war.You can be victorious in your life; or the victim of life or the victor over life, the choice is yours.
It’s up to you whether your journey is about the destination, or the enjoyment of your commute.
Yes, it would be nice to get up and never endure a road block, to know exactly where you are going, or what the future holds for you, but if that was the case you would miss all the wonder, adventures, excitement, joys and sorrows along the way.
These are the very things which provide you with the dreams, tools, skills, and experience to build other roadways.
Remember, the journey you’re on, we are all on together, and its roads are under construction.
How can you enjoy more of your commute?
Use the insight technique to assist you in gaining insights when you hit those potholes that can make your journey more fun and enjoyable.
Don’t Fall For a Set Up
Nov 11th
It is time for you to stand up and stand out! And one way that you can do that is to become dedicated to follow your dreams. You can’t allow yourself to be set up anymore. If you don’t become dedicated to living the life that you deserve to live then that is what you may be doing.
You are allowing past situations, current situations, your own negative thoughts, or other people to hold you back. This is a set up that will lead to your not succeeding. Many times we don’t look at those things as setting us up. We convince ourselves that for one reason or another that we don’t deserve it, or that it is too late, or that success is not for us.
But that way of thinking is a set up. And you deserve to live a life that is fulfilling and rewarding. You deserve to let your life shine. Even though you may look at your life right now and feel that it is not where you want to be. That doesn’t mean that you park right there and settle.
What that means is that you learn to be purposeful in the present. By that I mean that you learn to love who you are right now, and you are thankful for the blessings that you have in your life today. You know your purpose in the present, but you are also dedicated to work on things that are going to make you feel fulfilled in the future.
A major part of a mindset set up is when you think that just because you have made mistakes in the past that have led you to where you are today. That’s the end. Well, why not flip that mindset? Why not look at today as the beginning?
Why not look at all of the past mistakes as learning experience that have prepared you for where you are at currently. The things of the past can’t be changed. But how you allow them to affect your life can be changed.
When you can look at your mistakes as learning experiences you have gained empowerment to look past the past and toward the future. I admit that I have fallen for many set ups. And the sad part about it is that at that time I didn’t even realize that it was a set up. I just had accepted the mindset that I had missed it. I had accepted the mindset that success wasn’t going to happen for me.
But now when I look back into my life, and see what was going on in my mind before my mind shift occurred I can clearly see that it was a set up. It was a set up to prevent me from living the life that I was designed to live. And that is a life that is rewarding and fulfilling.
It was a set up because if I would not have followed my dreams then all of the people I was created to help wouldn’t have been helped through me. So if I would not have recognized my set up it would have affected more people than just me.
So think about this. Have you allowed something to set you up? Have you allowed something to prevent you from living the life that you deserve to live? Have you allowed the chains of your past to be a set up for your future?
If you answered yes then it is time to take action, and refuse to be set up anymore. Today is YOUR day to make your set up a comeback!
