IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE - ARCHIVES

May 4th, 2009

NEGATIVE NANCY OR POSITIVE PATTY???

Regardless of what is going on in your life, each morning when you awake you have 2 choices, either to be a Negative Nancy or a Positive Patty. In Joel Osteen’s book Starting Your Best Life Now there is a powerful paragraph I’d like to share with you…’It’s not your circumstances that have you down; your thoughts about your circumstances have you down. It is possible to be in one of the biggest battles for your life and still be filled with joy and peace and victory-if you simply learn how to choose the right thoughts. Stay full of faith. Stay full of joy. Stay full of hope. If you will transform your thinking, God will transform your life.’

We all face some sort of struggle at some point in our life and actually throughout our lives we will face many struggles its how we choose to deal with that struggle that makes all the difference in the world. We can look at it thru negative eyes or positive ones. Have you ever wondered ‘how in the hell is that person happy and at peace while they are dealing with such a struggle in their life?’ Well the answer is simple, they are choosing to stay positive, they aren’t allowing those bad negative thoughts that like to creep in when we are down to manifest in their head. When you are in your struggle you are already aware of the situation and adding more doom and gloom to it only makes it worse. But having a strong positive mental attitude will help you to make the best choices to help you thru your struggle. Remember bad thoughts can only take root if you feed them, so if you are going to let thoughts grow in your mind make them positive ones and that will help this to be A Wonderful Life!

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