Change Your Thinking!
- Jamelle Sanders
- Aug 27, 2018
- 4 min read
As I write to you this week, I am just coming off another awesome birthday. It was a great week and I really enjoyed it. The outpouring of love, kind words and well wishes from all over the world was truly humbling. I am so grateful to be living out my purpose and making a difference in the lives of people all over the world. Birthdays are a time of celebration and reflection. I took some time to look back over the last year of my life to see what I learned and how I have grown as a person. You will hear more of those lessons in the coming days. Ultimately, I am so thankful for another year of life and the opportunity to contribute significance to my generation!
What are you thinking? Are your thoughts moving your life forward or holding you back? Will you dare to change your thinking? As I stated earlier, I just celebrated another amazing year of life. One of the questions that people constantly ask me is for my secret to success. While many factors have contributed to my success, I believe that the development of my mind has been paramount to my success. If you have followed my work, then you know I have dealt extensively with the power of our thoughts and how our thoughts impact our lives. This lesson changed my life and set me on the course to a life of success and prosperity. The first thing you must do is examine your thoughts. Too many people are allowing toxic thoughts to live in their minds. You have to see your mind as a valuable treasure and not a receptacle for trash. That means you have to be intentional about the thoughts that you allow to live in your mind. I’ve discovered that whatever you allow to occupy your mind will own the moments of your life. You cannot think defeat and failure and expect to create a life of victory. Take the time to examine the thoughts that you are thinking. Thoughts that are never examined will extinguish your dreams and bankrupt your potential. You must be the gatekeeper of your mind. Examine your thoughts and refuse to let unhealthy and unproductive thoughts live in your mind.
Honestly, I think it is safe to say that most of the time our thoughts are holding us back. Maybe you are the rare exception to the rule. However, for years my thoughts sabotaged my success. I always seemed to meditate on the worst possible outcome. Unfortunately, it seemed like all the results I experienced were negative. Then one day I had to ask myself the really hard questions. It was that day that I experienced a major breakthrough. I realized that what I meditate on determines the motion of my life. We need to stop cursing the outcome and start changing the object of our focus. You cannot focus on negativity and expect to produce positive results. You would violate the law of focus. Essentially, the law of focus says that the fruit of your life is the product of what you choose to focus your time and energy on. Most people pour all their energy into what is going wrong in their lives. Imagine what would happen if we poured that same energy into creating breakthroughs in our lives. You must meditate on the things that will produce momentum in your life. Center your thoughts on the things that will create traction and craft a story of triumph.
Everything I have shared with you has been building to this moment. You must make the decision to change your thinking. If your thoughts brought you here, your thoughts can bring you into the destiny that God has for your life. Changing your thinking is not an overnight process. Just as you did not create a defeated mentality overnight, you cannot expect to develop a champion mindset overnight. Changing your thinking is a process and most people are not willing to pay the price. In order to change your thinking, you must reprogram your mind. That means that you cannot simply stop at examining your thoughts. You must eliminate toxic thoughts and replace them with thoughts of success and prosperity. Your thoughts create your cycles. More importantly, your thoughts shape your world. If you want your life to change, then it begins with making a decision to change the way that you think. Your paradigm will either expand your life or restrict your life. Your thoughts shape your victory or defeat. Your thoughts build your dreams or destroy your future. You must be willing to train your mind for greatness. The thing that makes me uncommon is my thinking. What others see as impossibilities I have seen as opportunities to unleash the power of my imagination. Your mind can register hurdles as impossibilities. Or your mind can view opposition as an opportunity to demonstrate capacity. Nothing can trap the individual that has discovered the unlimited power of the mind. When you shift your paradigm you shift the possibilities of your life.
In closing, I could say so much more about the mind. It is a topic that has intrigued me for years. I never get tired of studying and researching the mind. I have seen the power of thought and it has radically changed my life. In addition, I have seen others apply the principles that I teach and experience remarkable results in their own lives. I am not telling you theories that do not work. I am sharing from personal experience that breakthroughs happen when you take the time to care for your mind. No matter what you are facing today, never forget that you are one thought away from a better life. Your world can only expand to the degree that your thinking expands. Stop settling for a second-class life. Dare to stretch your capacity and embrace world-class living. You were not created to live a low life. You were created to live on top. It’s time for you to change your thinking!
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