"Thinkers" are quotes that challenge your mind by giving new perspective. A good quote can inspire you, it can motivate you, and it can slap you in the face and make you get up and do something. Think on these words as you journey to legacy... "The best revenge is massive success." -Frank Sinatra
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"Thinkers" are quotes that challenge your mind by giving new perspective. A good quote can inspire you, it can motivate you, and it can slap you in the face and make you get up and do something. Think on these words as you journey to legacy... "Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." - Barack Obama "Thinkers" are quotes that challenge your mind by giving new perspective. A good quote can inspire you, it can motivate you, and it can slap you in the face and make you get up and do something. Think on these words as you journey to legacy... "I want the world to be better because I was here..." Positive Thinking takes conscious effort as you retrain your mind to minimize negativity. Trying to see good in everything and everyone can be a struggle some days so I want to highlight small moments of positivity that I see as I live day to day. These moments are featured as "Heart Smiles". One of the easiest way to start changing your thinking is by using daily affirmations. Great motivators like Zig Ziglar and Norman Vincent Peale suggested speaking positivity at the start and end of each day to help you stay motivated. This is a great habit to develop and my heart smiles as I watch these youngsters learning how to use positive thinking to get them motivated. At Journey to Legacy we want to take a moment to recognize one of the greatest positive thinkers of all time, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Thank you Dr. King for the sacrifices you made to bring us to a place where our futures are only limited by our ability to dream. #dreamon
During a seminar I attended some months ago speaker Dr. Willie Jolley shared with us a free copy of his eBook Leaps of Faith Nine Short Lessons of How to Obtain Success Through Faith In Your Life. After the seminar I downloaded the eBook and placed it on my list of books to read without actually looking at it. A few days ago I glanced at it and realized it was only 14 pages long so I decided to insert this quick read into my day. The book is a refreshing reminder of the importance of setting goals and having faith that you can accomplish those goals. It is also a perfect read for this time of year as it starts off with discussion of why New Year’s resolutions usually don’t last and what to do instead. If you need a quick read that will help you stay motivated I invite you to read Leaps of Faith. You can find it and download it for FREE by clicking on the button below. Enjoy! Today I had one of the most trying days of my life. My life hasn’t been my ideal for the past few years but I am determined to make this year the best one yet and I have started each day of 2016 with that mindset. Life has taught me that when you set your mind to something, like FOR REAL set your mind to something, it is quickly challenged. Today was that challenge. All it took was an email to challenge everything I had determined would be for me this year but on this day I was ready. The email sent my mind on a whirlwind and my thoughts immediately went south. A quick call to resolve the issue put a band aid on the problem for a few days but my mind was set on days after. During a 30-minute period I experienced more emotions than you can believe. I was upset then angry, helpless then relieved then pensive then angry again. I felt like I wanted to throw something, I wouldn’t but that was how I felt. I was so mad that tears ran down my face as I recognized that there was really nothing I could have done to prevent what had happened. I can probably count on my fingers how many times in my life I’ve had such intense emotions that I literally wanted to scream. With clenched fists and a tear-stained face I looked around my office and my eyes locked onto a slip of paper taped to my computer monitor. On it I had written “Be Grateful” in colorful letters and drawn a heart with a smiley face; I had made this picture while bored over a year ago. I read it a few times and the anger started to subside but I still wasn’t settled. Then I looked a few inches over from the paper and saw a placard that says “Be Awesome Today”; my cousin gave it to me for Christmas a few years ago. Then I raised my head and straight in front of me were the words of Henry David Thoreau, “Go Confidently in the Direction of your Dreams”. And about three feet to the left was a corkboard with nine yellow stars tacked to it and on each star is one of the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit from Galatians 5:22; I had hung both the Thoreau quote and the stars on my first day of work, May 1, 2014. Then I looked to the far right and on my wall was the words “Wish it. Dream it. Do it.”, also hung my first day. Then I looked behind my right should and there sat pictures of my family and a metal dry erase board with Hebrews 10:35-36 written on it and magnets attached to it holding up pictures of my friends, a flyer from my church anniversary with my Pastor and 1st Lady on it, and a magnet picturing the four Black students from NC A&T who started the sit-ins at the Woolworth in Greensboro, North Carolina. Finally I looked back to my monitor and on a yellow sticky note was “Amos 9:13”, a scripture we have been quoting at the end of each service at my church since 2012. By this point I had gotten myself together and I had realized the importance of surrounding myself with positivity. Everywhere I looked there was something to help keep me motivated, to uplift my spirit, and to keep me focused on my building my future one moment at a time. For months I had unknowingly been preparing my surroundings for this day; a day that made me feel like my world was falling apart; a day that could have wrecked my mind and destroyed everything I had built and am determined to accomplish this year. And at the end of it, all I could be was praise God for everything that had happened and everything that is to come. Today my office reminded me that greater is near and I have renewed expectations for the future. Now, ask yourself this question: What surrounds you? "Thinkers" are quotes that challenge your mind by giving new perspective. A good quote can inspire you, it can motivate you, and it can slap you in the face and make you get up and do something. Think on these words as you journey to legacy... "A goal is something that you have, while a vision, a clear intention, is something that has you!" - Willie Jolley I have a confession. On this Journey to Legacy I post a lot about positive thinking trying to inspire you to change your thought process. But, honestly, I have the very same questions that you have. 1) “How can I think positive when there is so much negativity around?” 2) “What can I actually do to change the way I think?” and 3) “Can I have some SPECIFIC instructions on how to do it?” Trust me, I feel your pain and as I get answers to these questions I try to share them with you. To help me change my own mind I am always reading a book. I may not read every single day but at any given time there is a book on my agenda that I am using to motivate me. The most recent book was Norman Vincent Peale’s The Power of Positive Living. This book is full of things you can implement into your everyday life to help you think and live more positively but the simplest idea that anyone anywhere can implement right away is the word “STOP”. I always encourage you to immediately replace negative thoughts with positive thoughts to help change your thinking pattern but Peale takes this further. In his book he suggests that we literally think, or even speak, the word “STOP” right in the middle of a negative thought. Then replace the negative thought with a simple positive thought like “I am alive” or “I can breathe” or even “My mind is able to think”. How easy is that? It’s super easy, I encourage you to start trying it TODAY. |
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