We all have a heart. We all have passions. We all have hopes, dreams, desires, and wishes. There is only one thing standing in the way of our own dreams and that is our way of thinking.  Do you hope you can do something, or do you KNOW you can?  Do you wish for things in your life, or do you KNOW it will happen?  People who are successful in all areas of their lives don’t hope or wish for their dreams and desires, they make the decision to KNOW their dreams and desires will happen, then they make decisions and act on their KNOWING, not their hoping or wishing.  How do we do  this in a world that is consummed with negativity?  We make the decision, so just like you make a simple decision to put gas in your car when it is empty, then you act on it by pulling into the gas station and fill your tank.

Let me explain why I gave you this example.  Yesterday, when I was coming home from work, I looked at my gas tank and low and behold, I needed gas.  I pulled into the gas station where I usually get gas and put my credit card in the slot.  It accepted it and the pump rolled over as if to start pumping my gas.  Problem was it would not pump any gas.  So I walked in the store where there were several other people in line.  The clerk asked me if I was trying to get gas and she said, ” I’m sorry we are out of gas right now.”  I told her no problem and to have a good day.  Unfortunately, that was not most of the peoples’ reactions in the store and at the pumps.  They were upset and were spouting off angry words to the clerk as if it were her fault and had deliberately set out to ruin their day.  These people acted as if there was not another gas station anywhere when there was one right across the street.  Their decision to pull into that gas station gave them a circumstance or obstacle if you will, to make a choice.  To act negative to the situation and make it worse or to DECIDE to go around that obstacle and just go to another gas station.  Instead they thought negative about the circumstance and reacted on that negative thought which in all reality cost themselves to waste more of their time and energy than if they would have just had a positve reaction and went to the gas station across the street.  So, when we make the decision to think positive then we act on that positve thought, by talking positive, and choosing to commit to the decision. 

It doesn’t matter what negative is around you because once you begin to change your thinking and perceptions of people and situations, things will begin to look different and your results will be different.  Never give up! WHAT YOU WANT, YOU CAN CREATE.   Whether it be in our relationships, career, finances, health, or anything you desire and dream for your life.  The amazing thing is it usually always will change others lives around you too and this is how we start changing the world by one person at a time, by changing ourselves first.  I am not set out to change the world, but to change me, and the rest will come. This is what I heard once while listening to a cd and it took a while but I get it now. What you give you get!! I have heard this over and over in my life, but this too I understand now. Our passions are what drive us. Our failures are our greatest successes because we learn from them and in order to succeed we must learn, so therefore, we do not fail at all. It is not our circumstances or obstacles we face that keep us from achieving our dreams but our thoughts, choices, and actions.

   Now, all of this I am sure you have heard at one time or another but either took it in or blew it off. What was your choice? Mine for a long time was to blow it off because I made excuses. But there came a day not to long ago I decided to take it in. I started to take it in little by little still with some skeptical thoughts. But all I knew is I wanted a change in my life and for my dreams to be my reality. So as this goes on and I write, you will learn more about where I came from, my obstales, my excuses, where I am at today, and where I am headed. Some of it will probably leave you sitting there with your mouth wide open saying to yourself, “Oh, SNAP!”  ” What in the blazes was she thinking!”  And most of it I will be able to tell you, I wasn’t. Till next time. As my dauhgter says now,……..peace out! ( never thought I, a small country girl, would say that.)