Tag: thoughts

Tug of War!

Jennifred Jones

It’s a game of tug of war in my mind very often!

This morning, thinking what to accomplish, I was envisioning a sewing project already begun…kind of got excited about working on it and imagining how it could look. All of a sudden another thought pulled on my string of thoughts…’you don’t want to begin today. It’s too hot and you don’t really have enough time…’ (none of which was true)

It is like a game of tug of war in my mind sometimes. Who will be the strongest? Which thought will win? Which thought will I allow to win? Which will I cheer on and give the victory to?

Here are some of the strongmen holding the rope… negative and positive.

  • I can or I can’t
  • Should I or shouldn’t I?
  • I want to get started, but don’t think I can.
  • I want to but I don’t want to.
  • I can do it, but perhaps no one will like it.
  • I can get started, but think I’ll wait til tomorrow.

Have you played these games? Sometimes I don’t want to play, but those thoughts keep tugging, trying to entice me into their game of senseless competition.

I want to win the game! Will I allow myself to?

It will be my decision, and I can choose to win.

I will choose to win!

How about you?

Thoughts

Jennifred Jones

Could my thoughts help your thoughts?

Could what I think about be translated into something beneficial to you?

That’s all an idea is. It is a thought. It grows a tiny bit, and an idea begins to emerge. Then more thoughts come and are added to the original thought. Sometimes others will add their thoughts to your thoughts and make a powerful idea!

Observe your thoughts. Develop the good ones. See where these thoughts might take you.

Don’t be afraid to think differently. How many great inventions came because someone thought differently? The sewing machine, the horseless carriage, the telephone, electricity, the light bulb, batteries, bridges…computers, YouTube, Instagram, Venmo, PayPal…   These are things we use every day! (They’re almost a requirement for living in most of the world and we are thankful for them).

Where might your next thought lead you…Where might it lead someone else?

Share your good thoughts!

Work Therapy

Jennifred Jones

The therapy of work. How does it work?

I don’t fully understand it. What I have experienced is when a problem gets me down – I am stumped – something is bothering me I cannot solve, if I get to work with some manual labor, it either eases the problem or solves it.

Back in the day the labor was done at the ironing board. Really cleaning of any sort will do the same thing. Then it became gardening, just digging my fingers in the dirt. Piano lessons were another. I could bang it out on the piano whatever was bothering me, and when the piece would get too hard, I would go out to the garden and start digging. When I came back in, my fingers were all limbered up and I could play through the piece too difficult before.

So I’ve come to the conclusion…rather than sit and stew, it’s better to get up and do!

Many hard projects have been accomplished this way. As the body works, the mind thinks.

Maybe that’s where the saying, “Work through your problems” comes from.