March 29th, 2010
Every gardener and farmer knows that you can’t harvest something new if you haven’t planted something new. Are you tired of struggling? Are you tired of being tired? If there is anything in your life that you want to change you must identify it clearly, state your intention to change it and take action. When you truly want to change all or part of your life, the most important action that you can take is to change your self-talk.
Every morning we wake up and we start planting seeds with every word and picture we think. If they are the same old words and pictures, we are going to have exactly the same old harvest! If we want to harvest something new, we must plant something new. We must use different words, imagine different pictures and then we will harvest the bounty from those new seeds.
You absolutely can change what you are getting and all you have to do is to change what you are planting. You can do it!
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www.PatrickInspires.com
January 25th, 2010
There are those mornings when everything seems a bit “off”. There is a nagging part of you that says that there is a good chance that it is going to be one of “those” days. You steel yourself against the onslaught of terrible things and you make up your mind to just try to get through it the best that you can. Every little upset in the day comes with a mental I told you so and you forge ahead and in all probability you will indeed get through it. At the end of the day you are worse for all that you endured but relieved.
IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE THAT WAY!
That is the old paradigm playing over and over again. The new paradigm, should you choose to accept it, goes like this. The morning seems to start on a negative note so you immediately start bringing to mind all of your many blessings. You force yourself to think about happy times. You treat the people in your life with more joy than you feel. You focus on how you can make someone else ‘s day better. You watch your body and make sure it is holding itself in a posture of confidence and positivity instead of slumping until someone asks you what is wrong. You bring your heart, your soul and your body into a positive alignment. You keep adjusting your sails until you are going the way you want to go and not the way the wind is blowing. At the end of the day you didn’t just make it through the day, you took the rough diamond you were given this morning and made it a priceless gem. Were you fooling yourself? No more than you were when you acted as if it was going to be a not so nice day. I like the new paradigm better.
©2010 All Rights Reserved, Patrick McBride
www.PatrickInspires.com