TAKING CHARGE OF YOUR OWN MIND- POWERFUL MOTIVATION FOR 2021

every decision that you make has consequences even the smallest decisions consequences are more important than decisions don't ever make a decision more important than a consequence because decisions give birth to consequences people normally say if you make a decision you got to live with it that is not true you live with the consequences when you are exposed to things it gives you options options give you choices and choices required decisions it is critically important that you make this next step into sound decision are you making yourself better are you making yourself worse are you moving forward are you moving back are you making progress or are you stagnating every little decision you make counts.

some people are afraid to make decisions they just contemplate the options for years and miss the opportunity to change their life because they miss the time factor that is involved in making a great decision so what you must do before you make any decision in life is don't study the decision make sure you exhaust every possible means to study the consequences do your research get information check all the alternatives study the options check those who already made that decision and read their life study their life find out everything before you make a decision deciding to decide to act is a major major challenge for all of us and there are things that happen to us along the way experiences that we have that prevent us from working through the mental block of acting and so what i want you to think about is what is there that you know you need to do but for some reason or another you've been holding that for some reason or another you just have not been able to gather your nerves or be able to work through the procrastinating or putting it off or justifying or blaming some reason or another you just haven't done it

do you know where to hide when discouragement comes flying past your head or do you run to the same enemy that is attacking you in an effort to hide i'm not talking about physical places because the hiding places that we create that destroy us are usually the ones in our heart emotional states he said you are my hiding place lord that's a powerful thought isn't it when attacks come i've learned where to run and the reason that i'm moving forward in my life this year isn't because i won't be attacked it's because i know what to run to when i am i don't want to spend the second half of my life repeating the dumb stuff that i did in the first half of my life give me the grace if you will give me the mercy if you please to make a good decision so that i can eat the fat of the land i'm not stupid i just made stupid decisions i'm not bad i just made bad decisions i'm not weak i just made weak decisions there are a lot of things you think about you it's not really you it's your decisions when you acknowledge god in all your ways he will direct your path but too often we make our plans without consulting god then we ask him to bless those plans we wonder why it's a struggle why it feels like it's always uphill we have it backwards we're making a move and then asking god for hell the right way is to ask god first joy can only really come to my life when i am focused on what god is doing in this moment and i cannot focus on what god is doing in this moment in my life if i'm consumed with what he's doing in somebody else's or if i'm still in regret and bitterness about what happened three years ago or three months ago a lot of our lack of joy is really not about possession it's about position what i mean is this he set joy before him it's not a question of god's presence it's about yours are you present in this moment

you can't live off of yesterday's manna and expect to have victory today yesterday's information may not work today stay open for change be willing to try something new what made you successful five years ago may not make you successful today have the attitude god i'm ready for new things if you don't innovate you will evaporate you can't rely on what got you to where you are to keep you where you are the world is changing you can't afford to sit back on autopilot and just coast do things the same way you'll get left behind your personal philosophy is like a guidance system that helps you make decisions what to do what not to do from the information you get and what you learn what you know we decide maybe your philosophy would have been five years ago never to attend seminars like this you just didn't go now five years later here you are something happened along the way so now that little amendment in your philosophy you now say i'm gonna regularly go because it doesn't take but a few ideas to make a great difference in your income personal life social life and all the rest a change of mind a change of idea the more we learn the more we know the better we're able to make better decisions so what is the worst thing that can happen i want you to visualize that experience that feel the nervousness and the discomfort and the more you run it in your mind the less power that it will have your philosophical guidance system does two things number one helps you to see the dangers on one side so you can avoid those but here's what else your guidance system does helps you to see the opportunities on the other side so that you can expand those maximize those and here's what that's called the game of life is to minimize the dangers and maximize the opportunities and the more we know and the more we learn the more experience we gather helps us to keep continually adjusting our philosophical guidance system so that we minimize more dangers maximize more opportunities that's really the game of life stop hanging out with people that make you look good by how little they know and so you can condescend to them so that you can be a great fish in a small pond get around people who make you feel stupid because they stretch you they make you grow they make you read they make you study they stretch you they expose you to great information then you can make great decisions no matter what's going on in your life you can be happy and so blessed that people envy you and envy your life no matter what's going on in your life now that blessing is attached to a moral excellence or a virtue of soul called the poor in spirit which really means the humble minded those who are totally dependent on god and those who don't think that they're better than other people.

have you ever had anybody turn on you it's one thing to have an enemy i don't have a problem with that because if i know you're my enemy i dress for you i dress i come in there prepared cause i already know you and me we don't do each other we don't do that so okay but the hard cracks when somebody who fought with you now fights against you [Music] the future is actually the place where there is threat it's always going to be there so what do you do you make sacrifices in the present so that the future is better everyone does that that's what you're doing right now that's what you're doing here it's amazing you can bargain with reality you can forestall gratification now and it'll pay off at a place in time that doesn't even exist yet who wouldn't believe that it's like that's a miracle that that occurs learn number one from your own experiences learn number two from other people's experiences if you want to live a dynamic life multiplying your income multiplying your future be a good student if a good idea comes your way write it down then ponder it then perhaps go do it your philosophy comes from what you learn comes from what you know comes from other people's experiences the reason for life is productivity the reason for life is to see what we can do with the seasons and the chances and our mind and our spirit that's what life is all about to see what you can do now the doing you've got to have a philosophy on how much time you're going to spend doing if you rest too long the weeds take the garden so you can't rest too long life doesn't stand still so we've all got to have a philosophy about activity.

 learn from what you see pay attention if you just watch you can pick up clues success leaves clues and if you'll be a better observer of the winners and the losers those that are doing well and those that are falling behind and just take mental notes and good notes and say i'm going to adjust what i'm doing based on what i see whatever your hands find to do do it with all your might that's a philosophy.