I really appreciated my time away from the internet. It not only gave me a moment to step back and rework my goals, where I see myself, but it gives me a moment to recheck my thoughts and find out where do I want to be.
My time away from online (although it was short) gave me the opportunity to stay focused on my own personal goals.
I have noticed, and it was confirmed when I read my favorite book of Proverbs– 4:23
Have you ever noticed that when you say: “Today is a bad day.”, you really start to have a bad day? That you cannot see anything good in that day, and all you see is the negativity around you.
But what happens when you change that? What happens when something bad happens but you don’t let that take over? When you tell yourself that: “Yes this happened, but it doesn’t define my whole day.”
Our thoughts truly shape our actions, and our life is constructed by our thoughts alone!
When I went for my driver’s license, my instructor tried to distract me: we were driving by a scenic route, and he suggested that I can look at the scenery, I just have to keep driving straight.
My instant response to him was: No. If I take my eyes off the road for one moment, I could miss something ahead of me. I told him I wanted to stay focus as if I had my kids in the car (which I didn’t at the moment). That they were my reasons for not looking off to the side.
After I received my license, he told me that he wished everyone drove with the mentality that they were driving precious cargo. He explained that your hands will naturally steer the car where your eyes are going, and it just takes one moment of a distraction to have your life changed and altered for the rest of your life.
Sometimes I feel as if I wasn’t just getting a driver’s lesson but being reminded of how this all works.
How have I applied to this my daily life?
In one area of my life I started saying to myself that I am crafty. I can do arts and crafts, and that it just takes time and practice (and Pinterest!) but I’ll get better in time. I want to do this, because I want to be better for my kids. I want to push myself out of my comfort zone, and lead them to do the same. To not be afraid to try new things.
You may have seen this one on Instagram. As shabby as it is, I’m so very proud of it! One of my first venture into paper flowers, and Zee helped as well.
Different kind of paper flower, but still improving–step by step.
I just want to let everyone know that:
* Think about how you feel about your life now. We only have one to live, so be careful how we feed our thoughts and minds. This can make you or break you!
* You really can apply yourself to make the changes you want. It won’t happen instantly, but change will come and when it does, it will feel great.
* Stop thinking there is something wrong with your life, and start looking at everything that is going right. You’ll feel better knowing that your life is a unique experience that no one else can live, but you!
* Ignore the people who say “you can’t.” You can. Believe in yourself–you are what you think.
* Last but the most important–have faith in God and know that God believes in you! He is our biggest ally here, and we should pull on him for strength!
Prayer:
Dear Lord,
Help us to remember that you are in our corner. That there are times where our cross is hard to carry, but we know you are doing all the heavy lifting. Our burden is not as heavy as the burden you carry. Remind us about being grateful and appreciative of everything we have in life, and stop looking at the things that we don’t have. Remind us not to compare lives with other people–that will only bring discontent.
Help us keep our hearts pure and minds open.
Amen.
So what do you think: do you believe that your thoughts shape your life? Share your thoughts in the comment below!
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How ironic (or not ironic) my husband has been giving me this message all year in texts, pictures and quotes! When I finally listened to him, 🙂 and started changing my thoughts it made such a difference. Not only how I felt changed but how and where I spent my time and energy changed too. If I feel negative thoughts creep up, I simply take a pause to get my mind right. Love this Kalley thanks for the verse, I’ll have to read that chapter in Proverbs!
You are very welcome Christina! Proverbs is one of my favorite books in the Bible, there is so much wisdom in it–I never get bored reading it! It’s so ironic how messages we were supposed to receive come in different forms, I’m glad that this helped as well!
You are right, our thoughts do tend to drive our actions and vice versa. What we think about we bring about, both positive and negative. It’s best to keep our thoughts on the positive, even though sometimes it can be hard. Wonderful post!
So true! It’s best that we keep on thinking positive thoughts (as much as possible) to help us with our dive. The hard part really is staying positive when there are so many things around us. We can only take it one day at a time.
We are what we feed our mind with and also what we believe. And then out of the abundance of the heart a man speaks -so true, be careful how we think.
So very true Yvonne, it’s really interesting to find out what a person believes, though what they say. You can find out a lot about a person that way. Also, how a person’s character is when things are going “wrong.” Are they resilient, can they bounce back–very interesting and cool things to find out.
Amen. So glad I found you at Deidra’s Sunday Community. I’ve been working on teaching this to our children their entire lives…that we should speak life.
Enjoyed reading your words.
Peace and good to you in Jesus’ name.
Thank you so much for coming by my blog Chelle! Yes, I am trying to teach this to my kids as well, and it’s a lesson for me as well! What we say, and how we think really does shape our lives. I hope you have a great week!
This is such a beautiful post. I completely believe what you say about our perspectives on life. It just doesn’t pay off to have a negative attitude when things are out of your control. It’s all about how we frame our circumstances. Thanks for reminding us! I’m also thinking about this with the perspective that our baby will pick up on our nonverbal cues and also our attitude. I would hate for him to grow up around pessimism. Thanks, friend!
You are so right about your baby picking up on nonverbal cues! It’s great that his mama is thinking about his mental well-being right now! It’s hard staying positive (especially facing motherhood for the first time) but there are a lot of positives to outweigh the hard times!
I do definitely believe that our thoughts become our actions and become who we are. That’s why we need to renew our mind and have our thoughts line up with the Word of God and the mind of Christ. I so appreciated this post and am so glad I popped in from Deidra’s.
Thank you so much Elizabeth for stopping by my blog! I agree with you 100%, we have to have our minds and thoughts aligned with God. There is so much negative in the world, that sometimes those external negatives try to become internal.
I’m so glad that you appreciated this post, I hope you have a great week!
hi kalley, i enjoyed your post. it is so true that our thoughts control our lives…often in ways we don’t even think of.
have a great sunday:)
Thank you Martha for stopping by my blog and I’m so glad that you enjoyed this post. I hope you have a great week!
This reminds me of the power.of the tongue and how it all begins with our thoughts. Truly transformative, our.perspective, the way we see and think about our lives is definitely impacted by our thoughts. Great word here today and the flowers are beautiful. Share a link on how you made them. My youngest daughter would love them.
Thank you Lisha! I’m going to do a tutorial (a first diy for me) soon. We’ve been trying to do different flowers in here for spring, to liven things up. I would love to use real flowers all the time, but everyone else in here has allergies!
I love this. Definitely needed the reminder today. I do believe that our attitude determines our aptitude, I really do. I find myself getting frustrated at times at things that I’m not accomplishing instead of focusing on what I *have* accomplished. A CEO recently gave me a tip on this issue, she said to have a dry erase board where I write down my recent accomplishments to serve as a reminder that, yeah, I am a badass. 😉 Thanks for this.
That is awesome advice from that CEO, sometimes we see the journey ahead and get discouraged, but we should look to see how far we’ve come. I love that idea, I’m going to be using it for myself as well 🙂
The power of our thoughts. As a man thinketh, so is he, says the word (Proverbs 23:7). They say the greatest enemy we face is between our two ears: our mind. Thanks for the reminder that we have to win on the battlefield of the mind before we can truly succeed in any other area of life, Kalley.
Yes! So true Alison, the worst enemy can be our minds at times. We have a lot of work to keep it focused on the positive instead of the negative. You are so very welcome for the reminder!
She finally took her driver’s test! I knew from that Youtube video you didn’t have your license yet. Congrats girrrl! (hehehe)
Hahaha, girl you so crazy 🙂 I’ve had my license since 2010, but I still don’t like driving. I rather walk it (its more fun for me that way).