2013 was full of ups and downs, as is life. While at our church New Year Eve Party last night, a former pastor offered a simple devotional. This is my interpretation of that devotion.
We can choose to look forward or backwards. If we look backwards and focus on the negative, we will not be successful moving forward. If we look backwards and focus on the positive, we can succeed in the future. However, we cannot change the past. It is what it is. All we can do is live in the here and now and look forward to the future. We should not stress over the past. We can take what we've experienced and learn from those negative experiences, but we must find the positive in those experiences and then apply what we have learned to the future in order to be successful.
What better way to start a new year, than with a new attitude. I've set my 2014 goals for myself and one of those goals is to motivate and encourage others. With that being said, I would like to share with you something that was shared with me from the first female Mayor of Alamosa, Colorado.
Here is "A Life Changing Procedure" by Zig Ziggler:
The eyes are the windows to the soul. So, to become the person you are capable of becoming, each evening, just before you go to bed, stand in front of the mirror alone, and in the first-person, present tense, look yourself in the eye and repeat with passion and enthusiasm paragraphs A-D. Repeat every morning and every evening from this day forward. Within one week you will notice remarkable changes in your life!
A. "I _______, am an honest, intelligent, organized, responsible, committed, teachable person who is sober, loyal and clearly understands that regardless of who signs my paycheck, I'm self-employed. I am optimistic, punctual, enthusiastic, goal-setting, smart-working self-starter who is a disciplined, focused, dependable, persistent positive thinker with great self-control, and am an energetic team player who appreciates the opportunities my company and the free enterprise system offers me. I am thrifty with my resources and apply common sense to my daily tasks. I take honest pride in my competence and appearance and am motivated to be and do my best so that my healthy self-image will remain on solid ground. These are the qualities which enable me to manage myself and help give me employment security in a non-job-security world."
B. "I _______, am a compassionate, respectful encourager who is a considerate, generous, gently patient, caring, sensitive, personable, attentive, fun-loving person. I am supportive, giving and forgiving, clean, kind, unselfish, affectionate, loving, family-oriented human being and am a sincere and open-minded good listener and good finder who is trustworthy. These are the qualities which enable me to build good relationships with my associates, neighbors, mate and family.
C. "I, ______, am a person of integrity, with the faith and wisdom to know what I should do and the courage and convictions to follow through. I have the vision to manager myself and lead others. I am authoritative, confident, and humbly grateful for the opportunity life offers me. I am fair, flexible, resourceful, creative, knowledgeable, decisive and an extra-miler with a servant's attitude who communicates well with others. I am a consistent, pragmatic teacher with character and a finely tuned sense of humor. I am an honorable person and am balanced in my personal, family and business life, and have a passion for being, doing and learning more today so I can be, do and have more tomorrow.
D. "These are the qualities of the winner I was born to be and I am fully committed to developing these marvelous qualities with which I have been entrusted. Tonight I'm going to sleep wonderfully well. I will dream powerful, positive dreams. I will awaken energized and refreshed; tomorrow's going to be magnificent and my future is unlimited. Recognizing, claiming and developing these qualities which I already have gives me a legitimate chance to be claiming and developing these qualities which I already have gives me a legitimate chance to be happier, healthier, more prosperous, more secure, have more friends, greater peace of mind, better family relationships and the legitimate hope that the future will be even better."
Repeat this process the next morning and close by saying, "These are the qualities of the winner I was born to be and I will develop and use these qualities to achieve my worthy objectives. Today is a brand new day and mine to use in a marvelously productive way!"
Here's wishing you the best and a 2014 of love, joy, peace and prosperity!
Here are my goals for 2104. What are yours?
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