Renewing Your Thought Process

SOMETIMES, schedule can be so monotonous that you may feel your life is a constant humdrum.

However, some humdrum is good and give you much-needed discipline and teach due diligence, which are some of the marks of success, as you cannot go ‘up’ without them and you cannot stay ‘up’ without them. Know what habits need diligence and embrace them.

For example, if waking up early to do the necessaries is still a drag for you two years on, then you haven’t developed diligence. You need to embrace it willingly to reap the benefits of it, as it cannot truly serve you if you do it grudgingly.

If nay, when we embrace the things that need to be done, we intentionally chose to see it from a different point of view, you have to purposefully recondition your thoughts and emotions to embrace what needs to be done.

That way, a potential Achilles Heel is averted and your eyes are flooded with light to perceive opportunities when they come your way (for opportunities always come by everyone).

When we embrace the necessary factors of our lives, we are actually moving forward to a specific goal, instead of standing still (very often even the busiest of activities go nowhere).

We must educate ourselves about what we want and where we are going; it has to get past our heads and into our hearts. How do I renew my thoughts? It is simpler once you have truly chosen to change; speak to yourself. Yes. Walk/talk yourself through activities if need be.

If you see a piece of mouth-watering food that usually would have taken control of you, speak to yourself. “Now dear, you really don’t want more crab cakes. Break that habit; we aren’t going to have any!” (Note: I truly believe that unless we are working with God to help us get rid of the unwanted elements in our lives, we are powerless to overcome them.

Change is not just about willpower; willpower has limits, which are greater in the areas of a person’s life, where previously it was constantly defeated. We need a greater power to overcome weaknesses and that power is the Lord’s).
“Behold, we put bits in the horses’ mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body. Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth. Even so, the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things…” (James 3:3-6 KJV)

“And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me” (2 Corinthians 12:9).
When Life Just Rolls
LIFE might seem to be on a roll now for you, with demands of the new year, time seemingly in a hurry and meeting new and perhaps unexpected changes on the way. So, you might need to make a few adjustments, but don’t forget to take a break, I mean detaching yourself from all that activity and reminding yourself of your resolutions and goals.

Don’t let activities take you where they will and don’t get comfortable, because discomfort is rugged. Learn to set priorities, seize them and manage your time, especially now at the beginning of the year.

Sadly, many people just go with the flow and that would mean constant adjustments when the tides change or when whatever they are depending on goes under for whatever reason.

Don’t get into the trap of comfort, that is, where poverty (internal and external poverty) leeches onto the unaware.

Now, you will have the opportunity to go back to your old thought process and old ways if you look back within your heart. The decision to move forward is a deeply personal and intimate choice, no matter what that decision might entail.

No one can make that decision for you, and if you have made it, no one will have the power to stop you.