Month: February 2017

Hi!! Every once in a while I start getting hit in my mind with, “What are you writing for? You don’t have anything to say that anyone doesn’t already know!!” Ha! What came to me this morning is, “Turn it around!!”

Im not really able to do that without strength from God, but I can choose what I want to think about anything, right? Well today I choose to turn those crazy lies around!! I can write  if I want, and actually I enjoy it so why not do it?

There have been many things in my life that could have been very hideous if I hadn’t made the decision to turn my thinking around. When you go through different hard things, it’s very easy to get stuck in stinking thinking and get beat down. If you make the decision to SHIFT and turn things around…you can overcome in many ways!!

I don’t think we realize sometimes just how negative we can be. I can remember the day exactly, that I got more determined about overcoming and thinking differently. It’s very easy to fall back and stop doing it too. You have to be intentional about it!! It’s not what our mind will automatically do!!

What I actually did when I started thinking like that the last time was to actually take an online webinar class!! I saw how a young lady was teaching about putting your blogs on Pinterest. Wow, that was something new for me. It opened a whole new world I hadn’t learned about yet. I’ve just tapped into maybe making an ecourse and actually selling stuff…

Im learning a new thing, that’s a turn around from starting to think I’m not doing anyone any good. You get it? That’s what I mean about changing your thinking!! Now it’s all exciting again and I’m plunging into new areas!! That is the way our whole life can be!! Opportunities are endless!!

Can you think of a way you can turn your thinking around? Different opportunities? Different perspectives? Start researching things…get around different surroundings!! I’ve got my thinking cap on now, praying for more creativity from above. Our brains can expand bigger!!

Are there any ways that you are staying too small? Plunge in and think bigger!! Think differently!! Make a difference for other people!! Help others change their mindsets too!! We ALL can use a SHIFT to help us get back on track!!

If this blog helps you in any way can you give me some feed back and tell me different subjects or ideas that you would like to hear? I’m growing, changing, and learning, so any comments are welcome!! I am very thankful for every one of you!!

The Bible says, “Take every thought captive!” That proves that we can do it!!

Start today!❤

Don’t give up❤

Help others too❤

Change our world❤

See you soon❤

 

Being grateful is so needed in my life. I have to think of every little detail I am grateful for. It’s easy in our culture to start taking things for granted and even start complaining about little things when we are so, so blessed.

I don’t want to minimize anything hard that someone is going through, I’m just saying if we can find things to be grateful for during it, that we can overcome better. Just having a savior and God is something to be so thankful for. He can help us through anything.

When my past husband would go in the hospital multiple times for addiction and depression problems, it was so, so hard when he would come home from the hospital. I had a sponser from Al Anon at the time, and she would say, “Think of 25 things you are grateful for.” That would help me keep my sanity sometimes.

Phillipians 4:8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable-if anything is praiseworthy-think about such things.

That is not telling us to just be in la la land about things. In the midst of hard things if we can keep thinking on these things, we can have peace in the midst of a storm. There is always something to be grateful for if we look hard enough.

This keeps us away from self pity!! Self pity is awful! If we get into some of this negative thinking, it can overtake us!! It can make us start being hopeless, which is not good. It can pull us down into depression.

I encourage you right now, no matter what you are going through, to make a list of 25 things you are grateful for. It will change things around for you, if you do it from your heart.

We have lots to be grateful for!!❤

Sometimes we forget❤

Find 25 things❤

Talk to you soon❤

 

 

Just thinking about solutions today. There are always, I mean Always solutions available. There really is no reason to stay stuck in a situation. Our minds, or our enemy, may tell us there is no solution, but that is a hopeless lie. We may have to seek out a solution, but there always is one.

It’s amazing the answers that might show up for you if you start seeking. Don’t ever think you are above seeking help or that you can conquer everything all by yourself. Don’t ever just sit there in your misery full of excuses why you can’t change and never move forward.

Even if we are sitting in the middle of a health problem, financial strain, divorce, or grief, we can always be comforted by our savior if we choose to be. That can come in many different forms. I have seen such amazing miracles come about from resources and places that seem like they would offer no help!! Small little miracles and stepping stones along the road.

When I went through a divorce, I found a Divorce Recovery Group… that was a great place to meet friends going through what you are. People to hang out with and a process to help you endure the grief and hardship.

When I was married to an addict, I went to Al Anon, which taught me such life tools to better myself and learn to get along with people that are so struggling in life.

I was always seeing a counselor of some sort and it shaped my life constantly in a positive direction. If you need something it is at your fingertips in America. We are very blessed. I loved to be a part of small business too, those little companies train you and take care of you in many ways. They are like a family, and pray for one another and support one another❤.

Now the most amazing part of all. When Marty and I met, he had been through some of the same things. While I was doing these things, he was too and we didn’t even know each other. We were being prepared by God to be married to one another. Not just that, we were being trained, almost like college classes to help others find solutions.

Thats the most amazing part of the whole thing. If you humble yourself and get help, it is preparing you to be stronger to help others. It makes you healthier, it attracts you to healthier people.

So, there is always hope and solutions if you dig in and are not full of excuses. Sometimes you have to SHIFT your thinking and what you want. But it will work out for the good one way or another!!

Always hope❤

Never stop and be stuck❤

People need your story❤

See you soon❤

 

 

Hi! This is a good subject!! Well of course we always see different opinions about things. People are always going to see things differently than one another. But you know what? That’s ok.

I am one person that wants to choose love no matter what. I may have some feelings of rejection, and I may get my little feelings hurt, but the bottom line I choose to love, no matter what.

The way someone feels about a certain issue is not who they really are. And if we can just stay away from certain issues there can be love. I’ve had to make a major effort to do this, and the other person has to be willing to do it too. Both parties can not be someone that has to be right.

I don’t have to be right. I don’t have to prove my point. I just live and love and let God take care of the rest. Wow if we let Him be our vindicator He is very capable of doing what He wants to do. It’s not about me, it’s about what He wants.

Being able to let things go comes from being cleaned up on the inside, from having a pure heart. From not having an agenda!! I’m definitely not saying I’m perfect at it, just saying that after all the feelings I have and getting it out, the final result I come to is love.

Love really does never fail. There are some that you can’t be around much. Some are literally motivated to take you down. I’m not talking about working it out with them. Remember, I said both parties have to be willing. If someone is not willing, fine, no need to take up much of my time, I will love you if you let me, if not, not my responsibility!! Woo hoo!! Isn’t that fun and freeing??

I will always keep the door open to someone changing their mind. No walls up!! Yep, I’m willing to try to work thinks out, if I see a bunch of games, sorry, not my responsibility. I only learned that from being entangled in many games of manipulation, and control. These things are such a distraction in your life that keep you from doing what you really need to be doing.

You think you have anyone being like that in your life? Their behavior is trying to control and manipulate you? They have some issues going on inside. If they are not willing to admit that and change, it is not your responsibility.

I have a pretty sensative personality so if someone keeps being like that with me I have to literally detach (emotionally) when I am around them. It’s not much fun being in a relationship like that. It’s a lot of work. It can start wearing you down.

I choose love❤

I choose life❤

I choose to be me, without distractions❤

See you soon❤