Several years ago I made a list of those things in my life that were in need of resolution, focus, and an action plan. Looking back they were simplistic in content but gave me a place to start. Today it is a part of my blueprint for “living above my circumstance.” I have included them at the end of this post.

I realize more a more, the battlefield in life, is my thinking. I have read and heard this from many sources over the last 30 plus years. Why it has taken me so long to understand this truth I can only attribute to my stubbornness, and fear.

Its amazing to me that learning for me always comes at a price. Consuming valuable resources, time, money, and often followed by dramatic disappointment. So let me offer you what I hope will be a place to begin, a place you and I visit regular, a place that is with you and I always. Our thinking.

I have often said to Vilma, if some one were to on an ongoing basis say the things to me that I say to myself internally, I would walk away from them and never return. So why do I allow those same thoughts to drag me down, discourage me and often stop me from doing and accomplishing what truly matters.

Its time to put an end to this mess of anxiety, frustration, and fatigue. A great place to begin is stress.What it is , what we say, and most importantly what we think about stress. I have included a link below that was sent to me by a trusted friend.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/get-out-your-mind/201806/how-deal-stress

“living above my circumstance.”DLCsr

1. You will dilute your efforts by not having (owning) a predetermined outcome or benefit (goal).
2. Prayer, reading, exercise, nutrition, supplements, sleep, rest, social activities are extremely important to your well being.
3. At peace is powerful, do and complete those things, priorities, events, & things that support and empower you.
4. Express your ideas, frustrations, intentions, and your passion.
5. Learn that as you visualize who you want to (be) you  will act as if (do) and  overtime your dreams and desires will come true ( have).
6. You will become tomorrow what you say and do today.
7. Acknowledge & own your shortcomings.
8. The only control you have over tomorrow is what you do and think today.
9. Use your surroundings as an expression of who you are.
10.  Always acknowledge others, help or intervene as a way of life.
11.  Swearing and anger are a sign of mental, social, and educational weakness as well as a lack of discipline.
12. Manage those assets entrusted to you with discipline, passion, logic, and heart.
13. Accept today, you will come to a time where you understand the past and have vision for the future.
14. Always reward those who give great service.
15. Your cloths are a representation of you, choose wisely.
16. Checking off your list will free up time, money, and your thinking.

2 Timothy 1:7

7.For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but of power, and love, and of a calm and well-balanced mind, and discipline, and self-control.

Proverbs 23:7
7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he:

Lets get started, change your thinking, change your world!

May God bless your life as you pursue him! May Gods love and kindness direct you as we are renewed and strengthened as he does a new thing in our lives, the journey to our new life is on foot, led by the Spirit and Gods Word, to serve Him, and others.

DLC sr