Stop & Think

When someone wrongs me, I try to allow my first thought to be… “I wonder what’s going wrong in their life, that would cause them to act this way.” I’m not gonna lie, sometimes my first thought is… “what an a**hole”… but I KNOW which one is the Right thought & I always try to have that one first. Being calm, compassionate & understanding is ALWAYS the Right thing to do & when I do it, I feel good about myself… & I can be helpful to them, rather than hurtful. The goal for today: stop & think like a sane, rational, adult before reacting to the world around me! Have a great day everybody!

3

There are 3 sides to everything… the left, the right & the middle. Watching tv last night someone was dying of an illness & said… “I don’t believe in heaven because if I believe in heaven, then I have to believe in God; and if I believe in God, then I have to believe that He did this to me. I would rather believe it’s all random.” The extreme left says God did this to you. The extreme right says there is no God. But maybe there is a healthy range of sanity in the middle that says… there is a God, but He didn’t cause this. Maybe… just maybe… it wasn’t God’s idea to take a plant, dry it out, crush it up, light it on fire, and inhale it. The goal for today: find the 3rd side of every story… & at least consider it! Have a great day everybody!

Thinking

“What you think upon grows” ~Emmet Fox. For some reason I refused to believe that it could be that simple. If I think about misery, depression & unhappiness… that’s what I get. If I think about peace, contentment & happiness… that’s what I get. So the next time someone or something is troubling you… think about something else. I know you are thinking “easier said than done”… but Right thinking is actually a hell of a lot easier! The goal for today: think Right, feel Right, act Right… in that order! Have a great day everybody!

Sunshine = Happiness

A friend said it is scientifically proven that people are happier when the sun is shining. Well, I’m here to personally guarantee you that you can be happy regardless of the weather. Happiness is a frame of mind… & the weather doesn’t happen inside of your head. This is the age old battle of trying to help people see & believe that NOTHING outside of them can directly affect what they think & feel on the inside. The goal for today: ignore bullshit science that fills us full of misinformation… & dance in the rain! Have a great day everybody!

Get Right… & Stay Right

In order to get Right & stay Right… I have to learn how to think Right & feel Right.

We get Right by following our Heart & we stay Right by helping others follow their Heart.

In between, we must think & feel Right.

What does that mean?

It means if I have to choose between helping someone & watching football… I have to look at helping others as the Right thing to do & feel Good about doing it.

If helping others feels bad… we have a problem.

The goal for today: let your Heart tell you mind that helping others feels Right… & then do it!

Have a great day everybody!

Principle

A Principle is an infallible, unbreakable Law of Life.

Here are some of the Principles that I have learned (usually the hard way)…

1) We can’t be selfish & Happy.

2) Anger ALWAYS comes from fear.

3) We can’t do Good & feel bad.

4) We can’t do bad & feel Good.

5) We can’t get until we give.

6) We can’t fix it if we won’t admit it.

7) We can’t fix anger with anger.

The goal for today: know that these Laws are etched in Stone… & working with them, rather than against them, is guaranteed to lead to Happiness!

Have a great day everybody!

Sane

“All a sane man can ever care about is giving love” ~Hafez.

Well, I guess that means I wasn’t sane most of my life.

I was always trying to ‘get’ love… & wasn’t concerned with ‘giving’ anything to anybody.

And even when I did selfishly get what I wanted… I couldn’t feel good about it.

Then a friend suggested that giving to others will do more for my happiness than taking could ever do.

The goal for today: give, because it’s the Right thing to do… & then I’ll know what real Happiness & Love feels like!

Have a great day everybody!

Our Thought Life

If I say “Don’t think about zebras”… you just thought about a zebra didn’t you? You probably even pictured one in your head. 

If I say “Don’t think about heroin”… you just thought about heroin didn’t you? You probably even pictured a syringe in your head. 

If I say “Think about loving people”… you wouldn’t think about zebras or heroin would you? 

The goal for today: instead of trying to force my thinking away from bad… simply think about good & good will become my lot! 

Have a great day everybody!

Triggers & Temptations

There are many theories about things like triggers & temptations that cause us to do things that we shouldn’t do. 

We talk about the effect that our environment has on us & we basically claim that our lives are not under our own control. 

None of this it true! 

Triggers & temptations are wrong thoughts… & I can change them. 

Letting my past control my present is a wrong thought & I can change that too. 

The goal for today: think like a sane person… feel like a sane person & then I can act like a sane person! 

Have a great day everybody!

Love & Service… The Solution

I know there is a way out, I just have to find it… & be willing to follow it. 

There is always a solution, there are no unsolvable problems. 

Things may ‘seem’ hopeless, never ending or impossible, but they’re not… they only ‘seem’ that way. 

The solution always starts with faith, which leads to sanity, manifests into selflessness & ultimates in Loving people… all people. 

The goal for today: let my faith dominate my thinking… because Love & Service are always the solution! 

Have a great day everybody!