How to change your life RIGHT NOW! (Part 1)

Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.~The Apostle Paul

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I have good news for you.

Not new news.

But good news.

You can change your life right now by changing your focus, right now.

That's it.

That's the good news.

I'm sure you've heard something like it before.

And I'm sure you've experienced it before.  In a word:

Distraction.

You've distracted yourself before.  You've done something to get your mind off of something.

That skill, the skill you already have and already use is the life changing skill.

Imagine this.

You wake up.
You decided before you went to sleep what the first thought of your day would be.
So again, you wake up, and think that thought.  Say it's this thought:

"I determine my thoughts, emotions, and actions."

That's your first thought.  And you keep that thought in focus while you do your morning routine. You practice determining your focus, no matter what happens around you.  And you keep doing that. Imagine the impact this will make on your day.  Now imagine doing that every day.  According to the research of Prochaska, Norcross, and Diclemente, it takes 90 days to make a change permanent.  So imagine you wake up everyday, for 90 days, and focus your mind in the way we've been talking about.  You would have the power, one day at a time, one thought at a time, to not only change your life, but to define your life.

You can start now.

Decide your focus.

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How to change your life RIGHT NOW! (Part 2)

"Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it." ~King Solomon

I have more good news.

A word.  A compound word (maybe?)

MINDSET:

A fixed mental disposition that predetermines your interpretation and response to situations.

From dictionary.com (rearranged by me.)

That's the good news.  You can fix your focus in such a way that it predetermines your interpretation and responses to situations.

Say you decide to fix your mental disposition on negative situations.  You decide to be negative.  Now say someone compliments you.  Someone says, "You really look nice today."  Because you have a negative mindset, you may interpret the compliment as a deception.  "She's only saying that to get something from me.  She just wants to butter me up for something."  So you may say, "Thank you," but you won't mean it.  You'll be watching her.

But if you have a positive mindset, and receive the very same compliment, you will interpret the compliment as genuine, and genuinely say thank you.

Your mindset determines your experience, and your responses to your experience.

Your focus is your heart.  And you have the key to what comes in, as well as what goes out, of your mind and mouth.  That's why Solomon said to guard your heart above all else, because everything you do flows from it.  

How do you change your life right now?

By changing your mindset.

Let me know what you think in the comments.

Do you really want to meet God?

For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world:  to bear witness to the truth.  All who are of the truth hear my voice. ~Jesus, The Chosen One, God's Son.

Remember, all I'm offering is the truth, nothing more.
~Morpheus, from The Matrix.

What if I could tell you something that would change who you are from now until you die?

I have something to tell you.  Something that will change who you are from now until you die.

Do you want to hear it?

That's the question.

We say we want to change.

But most of the time we don't.

We won't.

We can't.

We are afraid of that change because it will mean we have come face to face with reality.

With God Himself.

Most of us don't want to meet God.

We don't.
We won't.
We can't.

Why?

Because if we meet God, then the illusion that we are gods must come to an end.
Do you want that?
Do you want to meet God?

(I'm really asking.  You can really answer in the comments.)