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POSITIve AFFIrMATIOnS FOr A SuCCeSSFuL LIFeSTYLe
What is a Successful Lifestyle?
Before we can strive for a Successful Life, we must define Success.
Success (the opposite of failure) is the status of having achieved and accomplished an aim or objective. Being successful means the achievement of desired visions and planned goals.
a) the accomplishment of an aim or purpose: favorable outcome, successfulness, favorable result.
b) the attainment of fame, wealth, or social status: prosperity, prosperousness, successfulness, affluence
c) a person or thing that achieves desired aims or attains fame, wealth, etc.: triumph, bestseller, box-office success, sellout.
If you are still trying to figure out what success means for your life, I can tell you that you can achieve it at any age and that it can be any of those meanings above, whereas you can write your own success story.
Example: I started writing lyrics at 21 but it wasn’t until my 30’s that I first recorded my songs. I started writing newspaper and magazine articles at 25 but it wasn’t till my 40’s that I began to publish some.
Many of us go after money, status, titles, and material things and when we get it, we still don’t feel successful.
When you find your purpose in life you will fine Joy and Happiness. Some design their own purpose and some follow God’s purpose for their lifestyle.
No one can tell you what success is to you because only you can define success in your life.
Success can mean a lot of different things to you, an accomplishment, a career move, trying to change the world, trying to change your address, or just giving back to your family, friends, community, church or God.
No matter what you may want to accomplish in life if it’s going to be successful it has to be done with a positive mindset. Never think you are too old for success.
The bible alone shows us many individuals who succeeded when they were older and wiser.
One that always comes to mind is Sarah, Abrahams’ wife, that in her old age gave birth to Abrahams’ son. Author Julia Child wrote her first cookbook at age 50, Kernal Sanders succeeded in the fried Chicken business at 62, and Nelson Mandela became President of South Africa at 77.
According to Forbe’s Magazine, the average entrepreneur starts after age 40 and most of the world’s most successful people started their businesses after the age of 50.
POSITIve MIndSeT
With a positive mindset and a soft heart any type of success is possible.
When your mind is closed to new ideas and you resist change, it’s hard to achieve success.
You have to learn how to believe in yourself.
You must discover the seeds waiting to blossom into ideas that drive the process.
You must find your purpose and meaning in your life?
It’s your definition not someone else’s, so don’t try to be like someone else because everyone is different.
You can’t compare their strengths and your weaknesses because it’ll cause you to fail.
Practice doesn’t make perfect, but it does make you better. No one is perfect, except God.
We don’t want to compare ourselves with the Jones next door even though they just bought a new house, or car, or go on a lavish vacation.
Mentors and Role models are good sources of inspiration if they can demonstrate and teach you leadership qualities.
Don’t exaggerate the success of others because it can cause you to undermine and diminish your value on the accomplishment that you have already made.
You may see their achievement but they rarely show you their failures.
They only show you what they want you to see and not their day-to-day failures.
Even with today’s reality shows you only see what the producers want you to see.
In the music business you see a lot of people that try to compare themselves and their styles to others, but record labels don’t want copy-cat artist, they look for unique artist with a style of their own and a following.
Don’t land up chasing someone else’s dreams rather than pursuing your own version of success.
You want to be that unique artist, not the copy-cat version, so what do you do?
You start by asking yourself what style of music do you like? Can I write music similar to the one I like? Can I put a unique style to it.
WHAT dOeS SuCCeSS
MeAn TO YOu?
The path to success and prosperity begins by defining what it means to you.
So, “what does success mean to you”?
1. Success is always doing your best. When you tried your best, even if that didn’t lead to big results, you should feel proud of your efforts.
2. Success is setting concrete goals. Being realistic when setting goals. If you know where you’re heading, that is a success in itself, even if you don’t ultimately arrive to the planned destination. You still got there.
3. Success is understanding the difference between need and want. If you can meet your monthly obligations and fulfill your basic needs, you are successful. Being able to identify when you absolutely need something and when you can do without it often leads to financial stability and is a great way to succeed.
4. Success is believing you can. Self-belief doesn’t come naturally to everyone, so if you’re able to tell yourself that you can achieve the goals in your plans, you’re doing great.
5. Success is remembering to balance work with passion. Focus on what excites you. If you’re happy at your job, that’s great. However, even if you aren’t, you can balance your job with hobbies or volunteer work you’re passionate about.
6. Success is learning that you sometimes have to say no. Part of a balance life is learning to say no. It simply means you have priorities and know what you need to give your attention to.
7. Success is knowing your life is filled with abundance. Love, health, friends, family. Recognizing this is an important step to feeling grateful for all life has given you. If you can feel this, you are already experiencing success.
8. Success is understanding you cannot keep what you don’t give away. You will only succeed if you help others succeed. Learning to give instead of always take is part of creating a world we all want to live in. When you help others, you will also create an environment where others want to help you.
9. Success is overcoming fear. Conquering fear makes you feel invincible. Plus, the fact that God didn’t give you a spirit of Fear, but of Love, Power and Sound Mind. Anything you do to overcome fear will lead to success.
10. Success is learning something new each day. Successful people understand that learning never stops. Take time each day to converse with someone with opposing views, read an interesting article on a topic you know little about. Pray that God reveals something new to you today.
11. Success is learning that losing a few battles can help you win a war. Successful people choose their battles wisely. When you know which battles will ultimately help you achieve your goals, you will be successful. Some people pray to Jehovah Nissi because He holds the Banner of Victory in the battle over the enemy.
12. Success is loving and being loved back. Opening your heart to others is difficult and can produce fear. Having the courage to love and accept love from others is a step toward a fulfilling life and great success. Only with God can you experience Unconditional Love.
13. Success is standing your ground when you believe in something. Successful people never give up on things they believe with all their heart. You may hold views that many people disagree with, but if you’ve done your research and know that it’s the right belief for you, you shouldn’t let it go without a fight. Many Christians stand their ground when you challenge their beliefs.
14. Success is not giving up. Perseverance achieves success. Even if it takes years to achieve a goal, persisting is key if you want success. Many people pray for things that don’t come immediately, but they PUSH which means they Pray Until Something Happens.
15. Success is celebrating small victories. Anytime a goal is reached, or an obstacle is overcome, take time to celebrate, even if it’s something small. All goals require smaller objectives to be achieved first, so each time you complete
one, take time to appreciate the work you put into it. To achieve 35 years sober it must be ”One Day at a Time”.
16. Success is never letting a disability hold you back. Disabilities’ do not define a person’s success. The body and mind will compensate. Just because you can’t do absolutely everything doesn’t mean you can’t do something. Do what your body and mind allow and always push yourself. That is true success. Pray for healing and for God to cure you of that disability.
17. Success is understanding that you control your destiny. Your destiny is controlled by you and you, alone. Negative people or situations may sneak into your camp, but you must be able to reveal them. We know that misery loves company, and some may ask you to do negative things. Take responsibility for your actions and their consequences and you’ll find that you naturally can become more successful.
So, you see that there are many ways that you can achieve success in your life.
PICTure SuCCeSS
Let’s try some exercises:
Picture what it looks like when:
1)You are performing at your best.
2)You embody the characteristics you admire.
3)You have accomplished everything you wanted.
Now, take a piece of paper. Spend 10 minutes writing down what you see.
List what you want to achieve in different areas of your life. List the principles habits, career path, relationships, possessions that define you.
When you’re finished writing, ask yourself these questions:
A) Do the goals in your list align with your values? Are these your goals, or are they someone else’s?
Do some of the things on your list matter more than others?
Have you already accomplished some of the things on your list? If not, what are you doing now to work toward these goals?
Did you include God in any of your goals?
This process is powerful. It enables you to see the goals that mean the most to you and leave the ones that don’t matter.
Success means moving towards these goals, dreams, and aspirations.
Superficial goals and chasing someone else’s dream will lead you further away from success.
This is a new roadmap towards success, and an opportunity to start changing your life.
This way of approaching success provides a starting point that falls in line with your core values.
The next step is taking, short-term goals that will create longterm success.
Building a profitable business, writing a book, becoming the best in your field, these things don’t happen overnight.
Of course, it will be hard work. Every big achievement takes hard work. But the work itself has to feel rewarding.
Picture what it will feel like working towards the goals you have in mind, and ask yourself:
Do you enjoy doing it, or do you dread the daily effort?
Does it make you feel strong and competent, or ineffective and weak?
Can you see yourself doing the work long enough to get results?
When you paint a picture of success that demands work you hate doing, chances are you will give up long before you reach your goal.
Many people go through this process in early January when they make a resolution, but, fail before they reach February.
How do you define success? To me, money, status, and possessions are poor indicators of success.
There are much more powerful measures to look at:
Truth: Do you speak and act from your soul?
Strength: How strong and resilient are you?
Focus: Are you pursuing what truly matters in your life?
Spiritual: Am I Guiding myself through my spirit world.
Here are some thoughts from others about how to think about defining success as well as how to think about achieving it.
If your relationships do not support, encourage, inspire, educate or nurture you, you actually need to look beyond those people.
Clean up Your Relationships, whether they’re work or personal. At least we know that God’s Word; Supports, Encourages, Inspires, Educates and Nurtures us to be successful.
Do you ever ask yourself what aspects of your relationships are healthy for you and bring you happiness?
Create a Personal Development Plan for Your Definition of Success and Happiness
Draw a circle and divide it up into pie segments (like having spokes on a wheel) that represent the following areas of your life: How much time are you spending in these areas and are you achieving your desired goals, are you contented, are you satisfied.
Finances and money
Intimate relationships
Friends and social relationships
Health and wellbeing
Spirituality and religion
Hobbies, leisure, and fun activities
Vocation, career, and work
See where your time is spent most and is that the best place to help you become successful. Or do you need to change it to concentrate more in areas that will help you succeed better.
MOTIvATInG OTHerS FueLS
Our MOTIvATIOn
We are not alone in this world, and we can always seek support from others to help us regain our motivation for success.
Whether it’s a money mindset coach, a performance coach, a business coach, or a relationship coach, open up the conversation.
Get to know yourself better, make plans to clear the hurdles, and get ready to sprint!.
If you’re a leader, it can be really hard to resist the urge to take the steering wheel when you can see others are about to drive off a cliff.
However, stepping out of the limelight to let others have their fifteen minutes of fame is the sign of a true leader.
Supporting and coaching others to develop confidence and stay in the driver’s seat on their journey is truly soul enriching.
Stay beside them when they drive into the fog and be persistent with your encouragement to keep them focused and on track.
You have greater purposefulness to others when you empower them to work through their own trials and tribulations and help them build greater resilience in the process.
Your self-esteem and internal happiness will deepen on a richer level and stay with you for far, far longer.
Embrace Negative Feedback and Criticism.
We don’t actually learn best when people agree and applaud us.
We learn best when we make mistakes and experience the intense emotions connected with failures and rejections.
Invite yourself to look for the lesson in every misfortune.
Lick your wounds only for so long and move quickly to look for the lesson.
When you can do so, you can still experience happiness.
WHY KnOWInG YOur MOTIvATIOn STYLe IS IMPOrTAnT
There are different types of motivation in psychology, you should familiarize yourself with your motivation styles.
Staying motivated is important to lead a productive and fulfilling life.
If you lack self-motivation, you will not be able to excel, progress, or thrive in your life.
It is important to keep your morale up and find value and purpose in your life to lead a meaningful existence.
Here are some tips that can help you stay motivated and focused.
1. Find Your Passion: The best thing to keep yourself motivated is finding your passion in life. Enjoying what you do makes it easier for you to stay motivated and active daily.
2. Overcome Your Fears: Our fears and hesitations often limit us from exploring our true potential. Overcoming your fears allows you to freely venture into your passions and interests and find motivation in your success.
3. Have a Daily Routine: A daily routine is another driving factor to keep yourself motivated. Having a routine to follow keeps you going without having much time to doubt or contemplate things.
4. Be Creative: Creativity nurtures self-motivation. Indulging in creative pursuits, for example, writing a poem, reading a book, or listening to a song, can help you stimulate your inner motivation.
5. Avoid Distractions: Distraction is your prime motivation killer. To stay focused and self-motivated, keep all your distractions away from yourself.
7 CHArACTerISTICS OF MOTIvATIOn
1. Competence Motivation
Competence motivation is a type of motivation that helps others to push forward, become more competent in a certain area, and improve their skills. This type of motivation is especially helpful when it comes to learning new skills and figuring out ways around obstacles that one is faced with in different areas of life.
2. Attitude Motivation
Attitude motivation is a kind of motivation that comes to those who desire to change how they see the world around them and how they see themselves. Goals associated with self-awareness and self-change will be met with attitude motivation.
3. Incentive Motivation
Incentive or reward-based motivation is utilized when you or others know they will receive a reward once a certain goal is achieved. Since there will be something to look forward to at the end of a task, people will often become more determined to see the task through so that they can receive what has been promised.
4. Fear-Based Motivation
When you become accountable to someone you care about or the general public, you create a motivation for yourself rooted in fear of failure or disappointing others. This fear helps you carry out your vision so that you do not fail in front of those aware of your goal. Fear-based motivation is extremely powerful as long as the fear is strong enough to prevent you from quitting.
5. Achievement-Based Motivation
Titles, positions, roles in jobs, and other areas of our lives are very important. Those constantly driven to acquire these positions and earn titles typically deal with achievementbased motivation.
6. Power-Based Motivation
Those who find happiness in creating massive change are fueled by power-based motivation. Power-based motivation is a type of motivation that energizes others to seek more control, typically through positions in employment or organizations.
7. Affiliation Motivation
People often say that it’s not what we do but whom we know that dictates our success. For people driven by affiliation motivation, this is most certainly true.
Those who use affiliation motivation as a driving force to meet their goals thrive when they connect with others in higher power positions than themselves.
HOW dO YOu beCOMe
SuCCeSSFuL In LIFe?
Some people associate success with money, others with power, and some from having a beneficial effect on the world. Success has diverse meanings for different individuals. To you, it would mean one thing, while to others, it would mean something else.
These success tips are crucial if you want to understand how to succeed:
1. Think Big and have Faith.
Obama was a Senator, Reagan was an Actor, and Trump was a Businessman, but they all ran for and became President.
2. Find What You Love to Do and Do It
Even if you weren’t successful, you spent your time doing something you enjoyed. Many successful artists spent years of their life performing for free, and the only reason they continued to play was that they enjoyed it.
3. What are your goals to succeed?
People frequently believe that in-order to be successful, they must make the aim of their success, their life. If people
believe that their employment will lead to success, they may put in endless hours every day, often late into the evening.
However, this comes at the expense of relaxation, health, and enjoyment of life. They may eventually burn out and stop being effective in their career.
If their success is based on having a robust social life and a nice group of friends, their employment may suffer, and they may lose their job, leaving them unable to go out with friends.
4. Be Alone - Make time for yourself. Turn off the TV, step away from the computer, and put down the phone. Embrace your “me time” and think about what made you happy today. A lot of successful people take this time to spend with God in a closet, room, or out in nature. They pray they and talk to God and meditate on God’s Word.
5. Do Not Be Afraid of Failure
Numerous attempts led to Thomas Edison to create the lightbulb. “How do you feel after all of your unsuccessful attempts?” he was asked in an interview. I didn’t fail; I learned hundreds of ways not to develop the lightbulb,” he said. Every unsuccessful attempt was a crucial step on his journey to achievement. After a failure, it’s easy to feel like you should quit, but perhaps it would be wise to find a teaching in that failure. Pay attention and learn from your mistakes.
6. Never Let Others Define You
Never let anyone tell you who to be or what to do. Surround yourself with people who love you for who you are, if you want to know how to be successful in every aspect of life.
7. Be a Person of Action
Don’t be frightened to deviate from the standard if you want to learn how to be successful. If you can develop a better method to accomplish anything, go for it. Try again if you fail.
8. Schedule Everything
Scheduling means keeping to a set time and not deviating from what should be accomplished. Successful people know that procrastination is one of the biggest disruptors of a productive day. Instead of putting things off, try making a list of all the things you want to get done in a day. Checking things off will give you a sense of accomplishment and help you visualize the time you’ll need for everything else.
9. Always Maintain a Positive Mental Attitude
As stated in the quotation above, you must have faith in your potential to achieve. This is the only way to develop a positive mentality. Negative ideas should be replaced with positive ones. You must regard challenges as tasks to be done rather than as roadblocks to your progress.
10. Prioritize
Successful people focus on being excellent at what they do. Multitasking has its ills and can down your work performance. Knowing that multitasking often gets in the way of productivity, successful people prioritize and eliminate what will not gear them towards their success.
11. Be Grateful
If you want to know how to be successful, learn to be connected to others. Successful people boost their selfesteem and self-worth by appreciating the people around them.
12. Keep A Journal
Every evening, write down three or more good things that happened during the day. This will help your brain get oriented toward the good and away from all the downers of the day.
13. Stop Limiting Yourself
Limitations define the quality of your life. If you want to improve your life, then you must break free from the limitations that keep you in the same loop every day, month, and year.
14. Your Perception is key.
It’s not reality that’s important, but rather how you perceive your reality. Being able to control how you look at things is the key to learning how to start over and creating a fresh start. Shaping your perception is so powerful that just a small change in perspective can completely change everything, from your motivation and outlook, to your self-esteem and confidence.
15. God has a Purpose for our Successful Life. God has given us life. What we chose to do with that life is up to us. Never question God’s intentions. He creates adversity in our lives for us to find our inner strength and carry on. He allows us to fail to let us understand the pain and heartache of failure but learn from our failures.
Everyone has experienced some degree of success, adversity, failure and heartache. This cannot be measured or compared as every situation and person is unique. We all have a story. Adversity will strike. We will fail. We will feel at times broken. It’s what we do with those feelings and failures that transform us into hopefully better people.
I like to find the good in any situation or any person and focus on that. If we live in the past and choose to stay stuck in heartache and failure, we will continue to experience negative feelings. If we find the silver lining, & focus on what’s positive in our lives we move on, we attract what we want, we live in the now and get through “adversity avenue” knowing God is in our corner.
This is for all going through hard times. This is for anyone that may be questioning themselves, their situations, their choices. Life is hard but YOU are harder. Never question God. Be easy on yourself. Stay positive. Find your silver lining. Thank people. Smile. Repeat.
There are two types of people in the world when it comes to responding to challenging times or times of crisis. The first type will allow the crisis to define them. When they are squeezed, what comes out is fear, anxiety, and stress. The other will work to define the crisis. They embrace the Napoleon Hill thought that “Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seeds of an equal or greater benefit.”
InTenTIOnAL MIndSeT FOr A POSITIve TeAM LeAder
These Are Defining Times
Leaders are not made in times of crisis; they are revealed.
What you do with a bad situation will define who you become.
So, what’s a leader to do? How can you turn a bad experience or crisis into a more positive experience for you and your team?
One approach is to develop an intentional mindset.
When you become intentional, you become proactive.
You stop reacting to what’s going on around you, and you do specific, intentional things that will affect everyone you influence.
Be intentional with your faith time.
Of course, if you are a person of faith, this could mean investing some time intentionally growing your faith.
Difficult times can cause us to question, and faith can help overcome the challenges that crisis presents.
However, this can also be a great time to develop faith with your team. Faith in the team. Faith in themselves.
You can also help others develop a perspective about these trying times that will strengthen their belief in our ability to overcome whatever we face.
Be intentional about your thinking time.
One of the most apparent differences between successful people and unsuccessful people is in the way they think.
And one thing this crisis has provided us is some margin in our daily calendar where we can spend some time thinking, reflecting, and meditating on what has happened and what is possible because of what has happened.
An intentional person might think about how this crisis can make me and my team better?
How will this crisis provide opportunities for me to serve others?
And, what are the actions you could take to improve your situation or the situation of those on your team?
Being intentional and proactive leader in times of crisis will put you and your team in a much more favorable position not
only to endure the adversity but to come out on the other side in a stronger position than when you went in.
Life is full of ups and downs. Sometimes circumstances outside your control come and try to knock you off your feet and it can be hard to find a silver lining in anything.
Looking out at the world around us, it can be easy to get cynical that anything will change or that we have the power to make an impact. It’s hard to fight the glass half-empty mentality when life feels more dark than light, but we learn from the quotes we’ve gathered from some of our favorite people below that finding and maintaining a positive attitude is important to making it through each day and can even lead us to a life that is flourishing.
One way to bring more positivity into your life is making space for friendships and connections with people that are also positive. These relationships can do wonders to highlight the things and people in our live that we are grateful for.
Daily gratitude can bring awareness of the small and also profound things in your life that are a daily gift.
Another way to bring more positivity into your life is doing the hard work of becoming at home in yourself and experiencing self-love.
Whether through regular self-care, journaling, therapy, exercise, or a combination of all of the above, learning to love ourselves just as we are not only contributes to deeper feelings
of inner peace, but also change our mindset about other hard things in our life.
You are an incredible person who can do hard things, and while it may not feel like it right now, we can guarantee that going through these quotes will put a little pep in your step and smile on your face.
“If you look positively, you can see that the whole world is a stage, and you are just playing a part.” You can either play the good guy or the bad guy. Remember that in the movies the bad guy goes to prison, he gets beat up, shot up, or dies. The good guy gets the money, the honey and the life.
MY PerSOnAL QuOTeS:
When it’s not about you, but what you can do for others, brings humility and value to your life.
Great successes are the result of the understanding and the use of a positive mental attitude.
A Positive Mental Attitude creates success in the most, humble drop out.
Positive thoughts, feelings and behaviors make for a positive lifestyle.
Positive success is how you deal with everyday problems.
Staying positive and realistic is the best policy.
Positive planning and follow through is the best recipe for success.
Positive thinking creates value in your life and in your relationships.
The less time you respond to toxic people, the more positive your life can be.
Some stress can be positive, but too much can cause psychological and physical problems.
Let your positive thinking transform your lifestyle.
If your emotional intelligence is positive, your stress can be positive.
You can defuse conflict with good communication and a positive mindset.
You can turn every situation into a positive one.
Feed your mind the right food and your thoughts will never hunger.
Think positive and expect miracles to happen in your life.
Walk away from the toxic people that are in your life and you will improve your immediate environment.
Surround your environment with positive noise and it will catch on quickly.
Make positive affirmations and avoid the negative noise.
If you don’t have a vision in life, you can’t be successful.
If you want a better lifestyle, think positive and strive for it.
Think and grow positive so that you can be a role model to many.
Start your day on a positive note and it won’t feel boring or monotonous.
If you’re unhappy with your lifestyle, change it, think and do positive activities.
When we see beauty in others, we see good in ourselves.
Negative problems can depress you if you let them, or you can focus on the positive in them.
There is positive in every problem, you just have to look for them.
A strong positive mindset is important if you want to have control over your life.
Life is full of negative intentions, try and find the Positive ones.
Train your subconscious to think positive reactions to situations in your life.
Instead of spending one more minute on your negative thoughts, focus more on the positive things in your life.
Every one of us face obstacles on the road to success, but if we stay positive, we can turn negative energy into positive solutions.
When you are positive, you are joyful, and when you are joyful you project positivity all around you, and thus people want to be near you.
When you start to think positive your people, places, and things, will start to look and be positive.
If you speak positive, visualize positive and expect positive, your life will never be the same.
A positive person sees the bright side of life.
For me it’s not the years in my life that count. It’s the positive life left in my years.
A positive attitude forgives better than a negative one.
Going for it is more important than winning or losing.
Positive thinking causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes for those around us.
Positive thinking is not beyond our control.
A champion comes in with a positive mindset.
Positive thoughts are powerful for your mind.
Only you can control the way you think, so, think positive.
A positive state of mind defines our future success.
Many times’ our situations define our attitudes, our mindset, and our fears, but with a Positive Mental Lifestyle, there is no need to worry.
When you lose a job there is another one waiting around the corner.
Negative thinking, attract negative people.
Positive thinking develops positive feelings and thus creates great job performance and productivity.
Positive thinking does not give up when something is negative.
Positive thinking changes the tone of your thoughts.
When you think positive, you realize that you can solve problems.
When you think positive, you don’t think of complaining much.
Think positive and you think happy thoughts.
Think positive and reach your goal faster.
Think Positive and see your goal more clearly.
When you are positive you influence those around you.
Positivity eliminates bad habits by thinking good habits.
Positive thoughts defines a positive person
When life knocks you down a positive outlook can help you get back up faster.
A Positive Outlook will find solutions to all problems.
When you’re positive you will achieve more and thus your outlook on life will change.
Positive thinking develops good health and wellness.
Practice may not make you perfect, but it will make you better aware.
Positive thinking develops reliability and responsibility.
Self-esteem develops self-confidence which in turns develops self-worth
One of the most important aspects of success is positive thinking.
Positive thinking impacts our life for better and best.
We hear bad news everyday let’s think and read the good news.
One of your purposes in life is to overcome negative thinking.
Your mind reacts to your fears and worries if you allow it to.
Take every thought into captivity and release the positive ones.
When you stay positive, and be yourself, you can be your best self.
“Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent of the population are too lazy to think for themselves, and they rather listen to the other thinkers that produce negative news.
“Having a positive attitude is an intelligent way to view life.
Here Are SOMe QuOTeS FrOM FAMOuS PeOPLe:
“It makes a big difference in your life when you stay positive.”
—Ellen DeGeneres
“Building a positive attitude begins with having confidence in yourself.”
—Roger Fritz
“Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking.”
—Zig Ziglar
“The most important thing you’ll ever wear is your attitude.”
—Jeff Moore
“Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.”
—Joe Biden
“Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.”
—Maya Angelou
“You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt
“Attitude and enthusiasm play a big part in my life. I get excited about the things that inspire me. I also believe in laughing and having a good time.”
—Dwayne Johnson
“Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.”
—Mary Lou Retton
“You always pass failure on the way to success.”
—Mickey Rooney
“Keep a positive attitude, even if results don’t seem to be occurring as quickly as you want them to.”
—James
Thompson
“You need an attitude of survive. You’re not just serving yourself. You help others to grow up and you grow with them.”
—Oprah Winfrey
“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”
—Thomas Jefferson
“You are never too old to set another goal or dream a new dream.”
—Les Brown
“Changing your mindset is a game changer.”
—Frank Sonnenberg
“Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.”
–George Bernard Shaw
“The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.”
—Kobe Bryant
“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
— Napoleon Hill, Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude
“Whatever your mind can conceive and can believe, it can achieve”
— Napoleon Hill, Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude
Know that your success is based entirely on your attitude, your commitment and self discipline. You are the only person who can generate a new mindset. Ellen Mensap, Shortcut to a positive mental attitude
Attitude is a way of life. We have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we embrace for that day. Puneet Sharma
Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future. Og Mandino
An attitude of gratitude shows a lot about the character of a person. It keeps God first, knowing that He is the source of every blessing we receive. Joyce Meyer, The Power of Being Thankful
With a positive attitude it is possible to turn situations of failure into success. Dan Miller, Positive Attitude - Key to Success
Having a positive attitude will attract positive thoughts, positive feelings and positive individuals, which will attract positive results. Desmond McLean, Who Says You Can’t Have It All?
“Your attitude determines your actions, and your actions determine your accomplishment.” John C. Maxwell, Your Road Map For Success
In GOd We TruST
If our attitude is correct, then we have to put our trust in God.
If we want to succeed in life, we must follow what God has for us.
His purpose for us is very real.
We’ve read just about every part of how to be successful in life, but we usually leave out the spiritual aspects of being successful, of having that Joy in our life, that Peace beyond all understanding that only God can give, and that sense of worth that only God can validate.
What many successful men and woman don’t confess is that they all pray for success, some may not pray to the same God as most, but they still pray.
I would be deceitful if I did not tell you of what God insists for us to have a successful lifestyle.
Now, if you’re looking for your purpose in life and you want to follow the biblical teachings of a purposed filled life, you have to read what the Word of God says.
God’s purpose for every human being was to serve Him.
But you can’t honestly serve God unless you adhere to his principles, as His purpose for your life is as follows:
God wants us to be born again, saved, and delivered.
He wants us to be in good health.
He wants us to have a Word life in scriptures.
He wants us to have a Prayer life, to fellowship with others.
He wants us to plant seeds, give testimonies, and preach the Good News.
He wants us to be ready and strong with the Armor of God.
He wants us to disciple those who we reach, as well as our families, our friends, and those in our communities.
WHAT PeOPLe OuT In THe WOrLd MAY nOT underSTAnd IS WHY We PrAY, WOrSHIP And PrAISe GOd.
God is the Maker and ruler of the Universe.
He made man so that we can serve Him.
God made woman to help man.
He is a Jealous God and wants us to serve only Him.
He gave Commandments for His people to follow, only to be disappointed.
His final step was to give His Son to die without Sin so that we can reconcile with God and get back into His good graces.
God is a God of Forgiveness.
God is a God of Love.
God is a God of Grace.
God is a God of Mercy
We can’t do nothing unless God allows it.
Since the 1950”s we have seen changes that have corrupted the way we live. We have seen the changes in media, entertainment, politics, business, laws, and religions that have not been for the best. Yet we continue to accept the things that we can change.
If we get back to the basics of what God wants us to do, He will heal the land and all of its’ inhabitants will be successful.
Time after time God spoke to prophets to warn the people that destruction is coming if they don’t repent.
It happened in the great flood, it happened in Sodom and Gomorrah, it’s happening all over the world today.
Earthquakes, Tornados, Tsunamis’, Typhoons, Cyclones, Hurricanes, Floods, Mudslides, Volcanos, and various types of natural disasters that do not include: Plagues, Viruses, diseases, cancers, that are not curable.
But we serve a Great God, A Healer, A Miracle Worker, A Creator of something from nothing.
God wants to heal the land. He is already doing it in various parts of the world that had some of the deadliest diseases known to man.
Places like Uganda, that had one of the biggest populations of the Aids virus, abuse and murder, but because people in Uganda and other countries are repenting from their wicked ways and are praying to usher the presence of God throughout the region, God is healing those regions where His people are calling unto His presence.
The lost is where we find revival. If local churches don’t wake up, they will lose their congregation. God is ready to heal His people, Financially, Emotionally, Mentally, Physically and Spiritually.
The church exists to introduce people to Jesus. This is why we constantly need to outreach to people.
We shouldn’t pour all of our energy and resources into erecting a building with the hope that people will wander in, so, we need to be outdoors, building relationships with the people in our community.
God wants you to be healthy, with Power, Love, and a Sound Mind. He wants you to be saved and have eternal life. He wants you to develop a Prayer and Word life, so that your life on earth can be fruitful and multiply.
He wants you to fellowship with others because He knows that through the Holy Spirit, your life will touch endless generations just by the words you speak, by the smile you give, and by the actions you take.
You will multiply the blessings you give others by the way you carry yourself, In Jesus Name.
Develop A Prayer Life – A few things you should know
If you’ve never been born again, repent and confess to God your sins and ask for forgiveness, and accept Jesus in your heart. State that you know that Jesus died for you, rose again, and sitting on the right hand of the father. Pray that Jesus come into your heart and allow the Holy Spirit to guide your every step. Pray for the Holy Ghost to baptize you with fire.
So, what does prayer do for you? Everything – It opens up the heavens, It releases Angels to your door step, It Allows God to give you favor, show you Miracles and allows you to walk in Victory.
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Prayer builds you up, open doors, releases favor.
Prayer gives you the anointing, that breaks the yoke, Prayer binds and breaks satanic rituals.
Prayer brings man to God and God to man.
Prayer brings about financial breakthrough. Prayer makes you important in society.
When you pray you learn, you overcome, your life becomes better.
Prayer breaks the strongholds of the enemy to have dominium over you.
A man of prayer is a man of peace, not shaken, a ground breaker, a stronghold to the community, an asset to the heavens and a dodger to the enemy and is not shaken by the presence of God.
Prayer is full of grace, and has a control to the key of favor. God wants you to pray so He can show you great and mighty things. There are secrets in the bible and in the atmosphere that prayer will tell.
Communication with Heaven should be your number one solution to all your problems. Heaven is the Spiritual Solution that binds and loosens all situations.
The earth was a heavenly place until the enemy came and introduced sin.
When sin came in, problems, sickness and death came with it.
People pray when they have problems, when they are sick, or when they are near death.
When you develop a prayer life you don’t worry about problems, sickness or death.
When You Pray the heavens open up to hear your prayers.
When you fast and pray God sees that you are seriously sacrificing yourself for His attention.
Pray, for God to show up and show out.
Do not be doubtful, weak or faithless while praying.
There are those that don’t believe in their own prayers.
When you pray stay focused and picture what you are praying for.
Picture the heavens, your wife, husband, your business. If you can’t picture it, you can’t see it.
If one type of prayer isn’t working change it.
Negative thoughts can bring you images when you are praying to distract you.
Picture of what you declared.
Break every false image of negativity that tries to sway your mind and your focus.
Pray more because you want to hear from God, not for the sake of it.
Pray until something happens, until you see a move.
When you pray and see an encounter, pray more.
Your place of encounter is where grace and favor is found.
Say, “Let me see your glory, let there be open doors before the end of this day”.
If your environment is not convenient to pray, then find a quiet place. Connect every word into prayer.
Pray when you feel God’s presence, Pray when you’re not feeling God’s presence.
Pray when you are happy, Pray when you’re not happy.
Pray when answers come quickly, Pray when there seems to be no answer.
Pray when you are in doubt and faith will come.
Pray when you have lots of faith, Pray when you have little faith.
Don’t just pray to impress people.
Know what people need, have focus, position yourself.
Write out the name of loved ones and pray for them.
Keep your mouth from saying negative things.
Ask God to activate the spirit of your prayer life daily.
Pray for stability in your marriage or for future spouse.
Ask God to give you the power to concentrate.
Ask God for you to be stable minded, to be spiritually minded in strength and peace.
Your prayer life intimidates people who don’t want to be like you.
We ask God for forgiveness and for mercy if were not where He has ordained us to be.
Say; “God come, into my situation. God come, into my finances. God come, into my marriage. Tonight, open my eyes in the name of Jesus, Amen”.
And now I will pray for things to be positive in the world in the only way I know.
Heavenly Father, you have told us in your Word in Mathew 18:18 that whatever we bind on earth will be bound in Heaven, and whatever we loosen on earth will be loosen in Heaven.
We Bind the spirit of partiality among the world and the leaders, including Racism or Classism among male or female.
We Bind the negative tongue, hypocrisy, false teaching and religion.
We loosen the Five-Fold Ministry gifts, The release of the Holy Spirit’s breakthrough on all strongholds, and that the Body assemble under the headship of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
We ask God for a hedge of protection over every household that is declaring a prayer altar in their house or place of business. We ask that the Holy Spirit guide them as watchmen over their individual cities.
We pray that the church watch over the needs of the people in their communities, and that the gates of hell will not prevail over our churches.
We pray that the Gospel has free course, that the wicked not prosper but that their bounty is given to the just. I pray that the Body is led by the Holy Spirit in teaching, preaching, training and discernment.
We pray that all reach the level of knowledge, wisdom and understanding of their calling. We also pray that they all walk worthy of their calling. By the guidance of the Holy Spirit and the fullness of His anointing.
We pray that all followers of Christ, believe in their power and use its’ authority to strengthen the body, reach the lost, grow the kingdom and Glorify God.
We pray for protection for our seniors, our teens, our children, and our community, that no one shall harm, destroy, terrorize, destruct or bring death to any in our community as we plead the Blood of Jesus daily overall.
We pray that no weapon formed against them shall prosper, that we are protected going in and coming out and that when we travel God will give us traveling mercies and allow a hedge of protection over all today.
Lord, I give you thanks this day, For the strength of your being for the power of your spirit, For the anointing of your purpose.
I praise God for protecting me, shielding me, guiding me, saving me, leading me, and blessings me.
I praise God that He may comfort me, Give me strength, Hear me, speak to me and Bless me.
I thank God for His will for me, For His heavenly Angels watching over me, to save me from the grips of the enemy, from temptations to sin, from all who wish me ill.
SPOKen WOrd PrAYer POeM “TOdAY I GIve THAnKS”
Today I give thanks,
For the strength of my Godfor the power of his being
For the anointing of his purposeand for all His Redeeming
The creator the creations, and the world denominations
For His followers, Salvationfor His birth and crucifixion
For His burial, Resurrection, His baptism and ascension
I give thanks to my God, as I continue to mention
For His service of angels, for the prayers of intercessor
For the Preaching, Apostles and Evangelist aggressors
For repentance of sinners and the Faith of Confessors
For Prophecies of Prophets and truth from Professors
For the deeds of the righteous-
philanthropy of the rich
For those who are Fishermen and don’t just get to Fish, I thank God for the innocence, humility of the poorI Thank God for the Blood that protects me at my door, For the Heaven that awaits me, The hell that can’t have me, The devil that hates me and God that truly Loves me
I praise Him for protecting me, shielding me, guiding me saving me, leading me and always blessing me
I thank Him for the Priest, the Ministers and the Nuns
That Sow the Seeds of Jesus and let His will be done, I praise God when He Comforts me, cause Satan has to cease, I thank God for His Righteousness, and granting me His Peace
I thank Him for the Sun and the glow of the moon
I thank Him for His Son that is coming back soon, I thank Him for the saints, He’ll be raising in the air, and those He leave behind, They will say it isn’t fair,
I thank Him for the Sea and the Flow of the earth
The stars up above and the day of Jesus birth
The breeze of the wind, The light of the sky
The rays of the Sun, the dark of the night-
I Thank Him for the strength to do the things I must
I thank Him for His will and also for His trust
I thank Him for those things that I can’t even see
I thank Him for the Angels watching over me.
That save me from the web and the grips of the devil
And all the temptations of everything that’s evil
I thank Him for protection from all who wish me ill and those that try to keep me, from my mission to fulfill
I thank Him for protection, from Fire and from theft from poisons and sickness from accidents and death
I speak into existence, the presence of my Christ
In front of me, behind me,
to my left and to my right I thank Him for abundance, I thank Him to bear fruit, I thank Him for the Life for the Way for the Truth Christ My Lord and Savior for always being around For pushing when I’m up and lifting when I’m down, For every breath I take And even in My sleep, I thank Him for every tear, He wipes up when I weep, I want to please Him in all things, that He wants me to do and He wants Me to tell you, He’s waiting just for you, To accept Him here tonight So, He, can show you Truth Like you never knew before He’s Worthy to be praised, I give notice to the World Today Christ, the only way.
Create a Positive Mental Lifestyle and be blessed by the Best
MY ALPHAbeT OF LIFe
A – Act as if this is the last day of your life.
B- Be a blessing to all of those around you, because you are blessed by the best
C- Communicate your feelings so that people know who you are.
D- Don’t let negative people get you down.
E- Excell in all you can do
F- Family & Friends can be beneficial or destructive to your lifestyle.
G- God should be first in your life.
H- Humility should guide you
I- Imagine what Jesus would do
J- Jesus should be your focus
K- Keep being Kind to others
L- Love your Neighbors as yourself.
M- Manage your life, your family and your Finances.
N- Never let your guard down.
O- Open your eyes, ears and heart to God.
P- People, Places and Things should be scrutinized daily.
Q- Quiet time with God is essential
R- Repent daily, and start again
S- Salvation can not be bought.
T- Transform your way of thinking toward the will of God.
U- Understand His Will, Work and Way
V- Victory is yours daily.
W- Wisdom is developed by understanding God’s Word.
