Tag: think

Modeled and Remodeled

Jennifred Jones

I see something modeled. I think I’d like to remodel myself to be like that.

Why?

‘Why are you, lady, always asking why and trying to make me ask ‘why’?’

My Uncle Babe, now gone to heaven, told me he was always trying to get people to think. Think about what? Think on their own. Think things through. Wonder about stuff. How and why and who said it and why should I do things this way. Could there be a better way? What rule says I’m not allowed to think or speak what I’d like? I think I follow my uncle’s same way. I like to think and see through things and help other people to do the same. It’s healthy to have your own mind…to use it well to think, create, make, suggest, start…just be at peace with your own way of life.

I’m not talking about purposely causing trouble or doing wrong things, but we humans can get stuck doing the same ‘ole, same ‘ole pretty easily and become bogged down.

So begin today. Think about your models and any current remodeling you’re contemplating in your life. Why have you chosen that model to remodel after? Is that what you really want or want to become? Is it because someone else thinks you need to be that, or you think you need to be that to be accepted by them? These are tough but necessary questions to ponder.

We don’t want to be a mere cookie cutter version envisioned by somebody else. Become who you are. Set your own standard. Stand out as a model of you!

Remember, are you remodeling yourself to your design, or are you allowing others to remodel you to their pattern?

Higher Powers Part II

Jennifred Jones

Think of all the higher powers used today. Most have to do with something spiritual – filling a need we cannot.

Can a higher power be anything other than me? Surely it has to be more intelligent, more aggressive, stronger in many aspects…at least think differently. I know I’m limited so I want my higher power to be what I am not.

  • Can I change my higher power to something else if I change my mind?
  • Can my higher power be the same as somebody else’s?
  • Can I tell my higher power what I want?
  • Can my higher power hear me talk to it?
  • Does my higher power like me?
  • Can I see my higher power, can I look at it?

Is my higher power working for me? Am I working for it?

Why?

Being and Doing

Jennifred Jones

Is what I am doing what I am being or becoming?

We humans are pretty easy to train. We get an idea in our mind and then think about it and eventually we’ll act about it if we think it long enough.

The ‘be’ generally comes before the ‘do’. When we want to change something in our life, we think how/who we want to be and then begin to do who we want to be. It can take a lot of thinking and pondering to get it into our head that we can become what we want to become, but we are trainable. We think the thought – make the plan – get a vision. Then begin to act on the thought.

It’s like learning to read. We see the letter, hear how it’s pronounced, then we practice pronouncing. In time and after practice, we become a reader, and the more we practice and read the stronger we become in learning new words and reading.

As we ‘be’ in our minds and hearts what we want to ‘do’ in our lives, then before long we’ll be doing what we want to be, and we’ll become what we wanted to do.