Tag: books

Afraid to Think!

Jennifred Jones

Why??? God gave you your very own mind and you were created with a free will! Free to think!

But I don’t know what to think or how. This is something for you to think about. It’s easy to go through life letting others – high and low, tell us what to do and what to think, but you have a life to live and the freedom to think and decide on your own. Really, on the inside, you want to but don’t trust your own thoughts many times.

One of the best cures for this is to get alone, turn everything off and think. One of my favorite places to think was at the ironing board (what’s that?) or working in the flower bed with my hands in the dirt.

  • Think about the things you want to think about – one at a time.
  • Are these my thoughts?
  • Do I think they are true and beneficial?
  • How do I feel inside about this subject?
  • Think about others who have successfully navigated this.
  • Look to the examples from the past – from past centuries!
  • Read good books to become knowledgeable.
  • Talk about it with a very close friend – in person preferably.
  • Then think some more.

Good thinking is a process, takes time, careful observation, solitude and often change in ourselves.

YOU! Be the master of your own thoughts. Develop and grow and become who you really want to be. It’s your mind! And your life!

Pull From Your Past

Jennifred Jones

Some of us didn’t have the best past. ‘There’s nothing good back there for me.’

You might be wrong about that. No matter how bad our past, there is some nugget we can pull from to help us on our way. It will propel us forward; give us stamina and determination if we let it. ‘All there is was failure in my past’. Good! Then you can learn what not to do and what doesn’t work. ‘Nobody got along in my family…fights all the time!’ Good! Now you might excel learning new people skills to help others with their family problems.

Every thunderstorm has a rainbow of light somewhere. We just have to look!

‘There’s nothing to help me. I just like to keep house.’ So with that idea mom decided to become an interior designer and made a successful business. Others are really good at cleaning and have made a life helping others. ‘All I know how to do is take care of my dog.’ Good! Start a pet care business – walking and pet sitting for others or maybe become a dog groomer.

‘All my parents did was collect old junk!’ Start a shop in ebay or etsy or maybe in your our garage. Begin selling (maybe even collecting ‘new junk’ to sell). There are lots of people who want your old junk!

‘We didn’t have much growing up – no TV or video games – only books’. Great, you probably have lots of knowledge others might like knowing/hearing about. What could you do, start, create with this situation? I’ve heard it said, ‘everything we need is already inside us’. Find what it is. It can be your best adventure!

We don’t want to get stuck in the past. Use it. Pull from it to create your new future! It is waiting for you to get started.

Let me see…all I have is… But wait!! 🙂

Your Mind – a Reservoir

Jennifred Jones

Reservoirs and floodgates. Store it up and let it out!

Our wonderful mind is like a reservoir that will store up whatever we send its way. All the good ideas and plans and thoughts, experiences, movies, songs, places we’ve been, books we’ve read…all in there!

I think that’s partly why so many books have been written. People have so much in their reservoir they have to get it out and share it with others. Essentially, they’re opening the floodgate of their mind and letting the water flow.

What we store in our reservoir is what will flow out. Thinking now about dams…debris tends to float on the top, it doesn’t go down into the turbines. That’s handy because the debris can be skimmed off and discarded. Other pollutants get mixed in with the water and won’t get filtered out but will come out when the floodgates are opened. That’s why some content is good, and some not so good.

Fortunately, there are water purifiers to help us filter out the pollutants. We can install these upstream before the water enters our reservoir to keep the waters clean and clear. Sunlight is another natural purifier which can kill just about any bad thing with long enough exposure. If the waters are very polluted and stagnant, a good hard rain and some flooding will clear everything out for us…maybe a little lightning and thunder so we can see and hear better what’s been getting into our water.

The object of the reservoir is to retain and release pure waters to help not only us and ours but others further downstream.

Do today:

  • Rake off debris
  • Check water filters upstream