Friday, July 18, 2014

Talk or Listen?

Happy Friday Friends!

I hope and trust this post finds you all having a great day and that an awesome week is coming to a close for you!

This morning I am going to share a few excerpts with you from Jon Gordon's new book, The Carpenter: A Story About the Greatest Success Strategies of All. I highly recommend you read this book!

I have learned to talk to myself instead of listening to myself. If I listen to myself I hear all the negative thoughts, all the complaints, all the fears, all the doubts, and all the reasons why I shouldn't be able to finish the race. But if I talk to myself I can feed myself with the words and encouragement I need to finish the race.

Negative thoughts are the nails that build a prison of failure. Positive thoughts will build you a masterpiece.

...a positive pledge that you can say when challenges come your way and you aren't feeling very positive.
I vow to stay positive in the face of negativity.
 
When I am surrounded by pessimism, I will choose optimism.
 
When I feel fear, I will choose faith.
 
When I want to hate, I will choose love.
 
When I want to be bitter, I will choose to get better.
 
When I experience a challenge, I will look for an opportunity to learn and grow.
 
When faced with adversity, I will find strength.
 
When I experience a setback, I will be resilient.
 
When I meet failure, I will fail forward, toward future success.
 
With vision, hope and faith, I will never give up and will always move forward toward my destiny.
 
I believe my best days are ahead of me, not behind me.
 
I believe I'm here for a reason and my purpose is greater than my challenges.
 
I believe that being positive not only makes me better, it makes everyone around me better.
 
So today and every day I will be positive and strive to make a positive impact on the world.
 
This is all tied directly back to last weeks Happy Friday - What Will Your Influence Be...? The first influence we must determine, the influence that will dictate what all of our other influences will be, is the influence of our own hearts. We are human; sometimes we are going to wake up feeling happy, energized, ready to roll and other times we are going to wake up feeling sad, drained, not wanting to participate in life. Feelings do not define you and they don't define me. By the words we speak to ourselves, the words we are speaking directly into our own hearts & spirits, we are ordering our day. This is not to say that life is not hard, that there won't be challenges, hurdles and setbacks. There surely will be, for each and every one of us. You and I however will choose the words we speak to ourselves and in the process influence our own hearts, minds and spirits which will then determine the influence we will have in the lives of all those in our lives.
 
Here is funny twist for you that my Spirit just spoke to me; in matters of the mind, or feelings, it is much better to talk instead of listen. In matters of human interaction it is better to listen instead of talk. In matters of self, seek to intentionally, positively influence your own heart, mind & spirit. In matters of others, seek first to understand. I will leave you with that one to ponder...
 
Please don't hesitate to contact me if there is ever anything I can do for you or your family. I will always be willing to help you any way I can.
 
Have a great day, a wonderful weekend and please cherish those precious families.
 
Kev

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