An attitude is the way we think or feel. Our attitude is normally reflected in our actions and viewpoints. Most tests, trials and tribulations attack us primarily in our minds before they metastasize in the other areas of our lives. The Bible admonishes us to have the same mind (or attitude) as Christ. Through Christ, we know we are victorious in ALL things, yet we often forfeit this victorious life. A victorious attitude is a prerequisite to victorious living.
How We Forfeit a Victorious Attitude:
1. Focusing on the wrong things in our lives and losing sight of our goals and purpose.
2. Associating with the wrong people and allowing their thinking to contaminate ours.
3. Being full of fear which is false evidence that something we don't see will come to past.
4. Being consumed with stress and letting ours minds filter out peace and joy.
5. Inability to deal with change and therefore stunting our growth.
6. Taking our blessings forgranted and therefore limiting God's future provision in our lives.
7. Unwillingness to forgive and release past offenses and carrying them around.
8. Letting low self-esteem have a viral effect in our minds, hearts and spirits.
When we adopt the above, we take on a defeatist attitude. It manifests in our conversations and the way we look at our situations and circumstances. We say what we are going through "will last forever", "my whole life is ruin" and "this only happens to me". Yes, we start hosting pity parties. Nonetheless, self-pity is self-worship. You make yourself the focal point of all attention and you concentrate on your limited abilities and powers. You assert you are the only person who has done or experienced blah, blah. You make yourself a little bigger than the universe. Get over it and yourself.
How to Overcome a Defeatist Attitude:
1. Focus on the right things, things that are uplifting and beneficial to our goals and purpose.
2. Have close association with people who can uplift us and get us refocused on our paths.
3. Exercising our faith and stepping out beyond our comfort zones. Start speaking faith vs fear.
4. Bring peace and joy with us in every situation and circumstance.
5. Learn to grow through change, first changing our minds, speech and then actions.
6. Have a spirit of gratitude for both the small and great things and have a spirit of expectation.
7. Learn to forgive others and then release the emotions attached offenses. Don't carry baggage.
8. Have a healthy self-esteem, neither low nor lofty.
Once we readjust our thinking, then we can truly live each day in victory!
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Friday, March 13, 2009
Self-Control is Power
“A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”~Oscar Wilde
A lot of interpersonal issues and problems revolve around one topic: control. Who's controlling who, what, when, where, how and why. Control is synonymous to power. We all are born empowered by our Creator. As we grow and mature, we discover areas in which to exercise our innate sense of dominion. Nonetheless, the most powerful arena in which power can ever be executed is...self-control.
Controlling one's self seems to be such an easy task. Most people would probably assert that they do control themselves, but do we really? Are you really in control of yourself or are you just responding to life? Do other people, situation and circumstances control you? If someone cuts you off in traffic, how do you respond? If a loved one is having a bad day, do you let his/her attitude or words affect you? Someone can't make you hit them or cuss them, your loss of control produces those actions. We only have limited control of situations and circumstances and we have the power of influence over people in our lives. Nevertheless, we cannot control others, we can merely influence their actions but we cannot make them do anything. We can, however, control ourselves at all times!
How do we control ourselves?
1. Our Attitudes
2. Our Responses
3. Our Words
3. Our Bodies/Appetites
4. Our Habits/Influences
“You can not always control circumstances, but you can control your own thoughts.”~Charles Popplestown
A lot of interpersonal issues and problems revolve around one topic: control. Who's controlling who, what, when, where, how and why. Control is synonymous to power. We all are born empowered by our Creator. As we grow and mature, we discover areas in which to exercise our innate sense of dominion. Nonetheless, the most powerful arena in which power can ever be executed is...self-control.
Controlling one's self seems to be such an easy task. Most people would probably assert that they do control themselves, but do we really? Are you really in control of yourself or are you just responding to life? Do other people, situation and circumstances control you? If someone cuts you off in traffic, how do you respond? If a loved one is having a bad day, do you let his/her attitude or words affect you? Someone can't make you hit them or cuss them, your loss of control produces those actions. We only have limited control of situations and circumstances and we have the power of influence over people in our lives. Nevertheless, we cannot control others, we can merely influence their actions but we cannot make them do anything. We can, however, control ourselves at all times!
How do we control ourselves?
1. Our Attitudes
2. Our Responses
3. Our Words
3. Our Bodies/Appetites
4. Our Habits/Influences
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