My words for 2022
Surrender
growth
&
hope.
"Hope isn't the same thing as happiness. You don't need to be happy
to be hopeful. You need instead to accept the unknowability of the future,
and that there are versions of that future that could be better than the current
one. Hope in its simplest form, is the acceptance of possibility.
The acceptance that if we are suddenly lost in a forest, there will be a way through.
All we need is a plan and a little determination."
Today....I'm purging stacks of notebooks with partial pages of
scribbled thoughts, to do's, day-dreams, ideas and such.
I've been in the mood to simplify lately.
Letting go of some things...
tucking some things away.
Some words worth tucking away:
You can not be selfish and happy. Selfishness leads to unhappiness.
Passion is power.
Make an effort to experience passion and enthusiasm every day.
A bad attitude kills passion.
You can only be as passionate as you are determined.
We can't change a lot of things, but we can change our attitude.
If you have a bad attitude, there is nobody that can make your life better.
Your mouth is a major part of your love walk.
Our words are a display of our heart. Out of our heart the mouth speaks.
Be with people who challenge you to be better.
Don't trust in discouragers, surround yourself with encouragers.
Hang around with people that make good choices.
Feed your spirit.
Don't look back....there is nothing new in the past.
Let go of the past, and press on.
What has been is, so just take inventory and do all you can with it.
Face fear! Do it afraid. Fear paralyzes.
Don't compare and compete, just be you.
Don't try to be something your not.
Comparisons keep you off course.
Don't get caught up in what others think.
If you life stinks, check your thoughts. Where the mind goes the man follows.
If you want to like tomorrow, change your thoughts today.
Think thoughts that benefit you.
Wisdom always chooses to do now, what it will be satisfied with later on.
Every right decision that you make, will help you to reverse the result of
the wrong decision you made in the past.
Do now what your going to wish later, you would have done.
Guilt is anger at self...it zaps your energy.
Denial and withdrawal are the ways to madness.
Turmoil keeps you from making good decisions.
Frustration is what comes from trying to do something about something
we can't do anything about.
Let emotions subside, then decide.
Stability requires suffering. Each pain is helping you toward your goal.
The only way to get through is to go through.
There is a treasure in every trial.
It's about the journey, and how you make the journey.
We are on a life-time journey, it doesn't have to be as hard as we make it.
Negativity comes naturally, fight to be positive.
Self-control starts weak, but becomes strong the more you use it.
Actions of others doesn't give us the right to act bad.
Calm down. Cheer up.
Be better not bitter.
Get happy with yourself. Do the best you can.
Don't struggle. It takes dedication and discipline to not struggle.
We impress people with our success, but we impact them with our failures.
Humility comes before honor. Pride before destruction.
It's impossible to live in peace if you don't have humility.
You have to have peace in yourself, or you will not have it any where else in life.
Treasure your peace.
Your real life isn't the life that goes on around you, your real life is in you.
The way you look at you life , is what makes it good or bad.
You can choose what you want to think. It takes training and practice.
Don't be satisfied with being OK.
Be your own unique self.
God loves you unconditionally, love yourself unconditionally, in a balanced way.
Love God first.
Your not trying to change for God to love you, your changing because you love Him.
God works from the inside out.
God's not interested in changing our circumstances, He's interested in changing us.
Happy New Year!
xoxo
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