Break the Cycle!
- Jamelle Sanders
- Feb 19, 2018
- 5 min read
As I write to you this week, I can truly say that last week was awesome. I was able to make major progress on a couple of key goals. Also, I was able to establish some key relationships. More importantly, I was able to rest after a crazy couple of weeks. I hope that you are staying focused and that you are keeping your vision before you. The first quarter is flying by. Achievement does not favor the most ambitious. Achievement will always favor action. This is the year that you stop simply making affirmations and aspiring to live a better life. 2018 is the year that you must take action on your goals if you want to succeed. I believe with all my heart that 2018 is YOUR year!
Do you find yourself living in constant cycles of frustration and failure? Are you feeling stuck like you are not making any progress in your life? What are you doing to break the cycle? As you know, I just released my seventh book Upgrade Your Mind: Harnessing the Power of Thought to Change Your Life. I am so excited about this book and I am already hearing such incredible feedback. I do not believe that this book could have come at a better time. Many of you are right in the heart of accomplishing your goals and fulfilling your vision for 2018. This is a very critical time. Unfortunately, most people abandon their goals by February 1, 2018. However, you are not like everyone else. You are a person of uncommon disciplines. I’ve discovered over the years that uncommon disciplines are established by transforming the way that you think. I wrote this book because I see so many people struggling. Your were not created to live in struggle. You were created to live in significance. You are where you are today because of the things you have allowed to shape your thinking. If you want different results then you must reprogram your mind and start thinking on another level. You need to add this book to your library because I show you how to uproot toxic thoughts, the importance of intentionally cultivating possibility thinking and how to develop a bulletproof mindset.
Many of you reading this are currently stuck in cycles. I am not telling you something I read or something I heard. Ultimately, I spent a number of years trapped in cycles of frustration, failure and defeat. I wanted out of those cycles but I could not seem to find a way out. When I finally got desperate I realized that cycles are constructed by your thoughts. In other words, the way you reason and process the experiences in your life ultimately define your cycles. Often times we are mad at the world for what we are going through. However, we never take responsibility for the thoughts that we allow to occupy our minds. Honestly, my thoughts were unhealthy and toxic. I had allowed self-imposed limitations and inadequacies to shape my beliefs. Whatever shapes your mind ultimately structures the moments of your life. More importantly, it is not enough to know that you are in a cycle. Maturity is asking the hard questions and being willing to dig deep to get to the root of what is restricting your life. Identification without implementation will live you in a state of imprisonment. You cannot break out of a cycle until you first explore how the cycle was created in the first place. You cannot be liberated until you first locate the foundation of your bondage. You must study the cycle before you can break it.
If you read my last blog, then you know that I talked about being stuck last week. You will never be be stretched until you get to the root of what has you stuck in your life. Many of you reading this are feeling stuck and stagnant right now. In other words, you feel like every time you take a step forward you take two steps back. You are miserable and you feel like you have no momentum in your life. Trust me this is a reality I have lived as well. The thing that I find fascinating is that most people are okay with no progress. In fact, I talk to people all the time that make living stuck a new normal. I want to help you out for a minute. Living a stuck and stagnant life is not normal. Stagnation ultimately produces frustration. The goal of frustration is to produce a change in the course of your life. In other words, when you get fed up with where you are then you will do something about your life. Most people spend a lifetime going in circles. They are content with a life that is not moving or meaningful. However, this is the year that you have to make a decision that you are moving forward. You cannot allow frustration to derail you. Instead you must allow frustration to produce a determination within you to fulfill your prophetic destiny. Never forget that there is an expected end for your life.
I am sure that this piece is resonating with many of you. However, I am not a person that just believes in identifying the symptoms. I am a firm believer in finding the cure. You need to know how to break the cycle in your life. One thing I am certain of is that if you do the same you will always get the same. On the other hand, if you do different then you will get different. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Many of you have been living in a constant state of insanity. You are expecting your life to change but you are not engineering the conditions that will propel change in your life. Right now I want you to make a decision that you will abandon what is no longer working. If you continue to repeat the same mistakes I can assure you that regret will rule the moments of your life. However, if you will start to move in a new direction you will find yourself living at the next dimension. Ultimately, our lives often have to be shaken in order for us to shift. Familiarity wants to keep you living in frustration and failure. However, 2018 is the year that you must be willing to do what you have never done before. You must be willing to be inconvenienced if you want to increase. You must be willing to get uncomfortable if you want to unleash your greatest potential. Discomfort is always the catalyst to the next dimension. Therefore, breaking the cycle will require you to leave the box of comfort and convenience. The breakthrough that you have been looking for will require you to think outside of the box. In other words, containment will define the life of the person that lacks the courage to break the cycle. Containment places a ceiling on your potential.
In closing, I believe that 2018 is your year to break the cycle once and for all. There is nothing more tragic than to know that freedom is available but refuse to fight for it. I meet people all the time that have settled for less in their lives. They have bought into the lie and bowed to their limitations. However, your limitations do not have to define you. Transformation happens when you realize that you have the power to change the circumstances in your life. I’ve discovered that life should never dominate you. This journey has taught me that you should be dominating life. The victory that you experience will be based on the belief system that shapes your life. Victory or defeat is your decision. You must never forget that your decisions determine the quality of your life. Make this the year that you stop settling for crumbs and start stretching your capacity for success. It’s time to break the cycle!
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