You Are Responsible For A Million Lives
I know God specifically told me I will inspire, touch and change over 1 million lives. How? I don’t know.
But what I have realized is that our lives don’t belong to us. We all play a part in the bigger piece of the puzzle, we play a role in the bigger movie. That’s why aligning with God’s will is so important. We want to be used to the utmost capacity by God and not let anything stand in the way of that.
Your actions and what you do today can influence your future generations. This is a mission. This is generational. That’s how I look at it. When I have two options in front of me, one to make the right decision that’s hard in the moment but better for my future or one that will feel good in the moment and provide no fruit in the future, which one will I choose? I will always push and try to make the one that will give better results in the future.
We have to look at ourselves as investors. Investing is not just with money but investing is also with energy, habits, relationships etc. We have to make our flesh cry now so our soul won’t cry later. Or like the late Jim Rohn said “Pay the price of discipline or pay the pain of regret” They both hurt but regret hurts way more.
In these moments of decision or distraction I always like to have tools in place so I can stay on track. I use a couple of strategies and here are some you can use. These strategies allow us to re calibrate our mind and keep us aligned with our goals so we wont go back into our old habits of distraction.
Prayer
This prayer allows us to put all our requests to God and lean on his strength now our own.
2. 5 Second Rule
I got your his from Mel Robins. You literally just count 5,4,3,2,1 and then take the action you want in the direction you want. This completely disrupts your prefrontal cortex that is responsible for making decisions
3. Affirmations & Mind Tapping
- EFT mind tapping and affirmation are great. I love just saying and affirming things over myself. As it says in the word, life and death is in the power of the tongue. Our tongue and what we say is the rudder of our ship. When I say I can do all things through Christ or I am worthy, I am valuable, I am more than enough, I am strong, I am confident. I feel better because I remind myself of who I am.
“Or take ships as an example. Although they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are steered by a very small rudder wherever the pilot wants to go. Likewise, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the whole course of one’s life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.”
James 3:4-6 NIV
4. Get physical
If you have the opportunity sometimes it’s great to just get down on the floor and do some push ups and crunches. Or if you can do a yoga flow, a downward dog, or just some light stretches to re calibrate your mind
5. Meditate
To get your self in a higher consciousness or a mind reset button, meditation is always good for that.
6.Listening to music or worship music.
This completely can change your focus.
7. Go for a walk.
When you go for a walk, you change your surroundings and when you change your surroundings you forget about what you were thinking about before.
8. Read.
Read a good book about mindset, or just the bible. It will get you in the right thinking you need in order to get where you want to go.
9. Call a friend.
A great conversation with a friend can always give you the refresher, motivation and reminder about why you started a certain project or following your dreams in first place
10. Just push through.
Sometimes we need to push through resistance and build those resistance muscles. Many times when we are staring at a blank page or a project that we are scared of putting in the world we will often distract ourselves. Whether that’s going to the kitchen to get a snack, going to Instagran etc . Many times it's just pure willpower and focus. Let's put the phone in a different room, put down the food and for the next 45 minutes - 1hr focus on the task at hand. After you finish the task you will feel way better about yourself because you did what you told yourself you were going to do.
All of these strategies can and will keep you in alignment with your goals and will help you. They will keep your energy up. And will increase your confidence because then you will start looking at yourself as someone who is responsible and takes 100% ownership for their life.
Keep going my friends and keep fighting the good fight. Its all worth it in the end.
1 Corinthians 9:24-27
”24 Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. 25 Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. 26 Therefore I do not run like someone running aimlessly; I do not fight like a boxer beating the air. 27 No, I strike a blow to my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.”