Tag: TV

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!! 🙂

You! Think!!!

Jennifred Jones

So often we are told what to think instead of being encouraged to think!

You have been given a good sound mind. You have many, many good ideas and plans inside of you waiting to be thought about and brought to pass.

Are we afraid of ourselves? Afraid to let our mind wander into new dimensions different than what we’re accustomed to?

I’m not talking about freaky-stuff thinking, but sometime just turn off the TV, the uTube, and let your own mind think something good, something you would like to think about but were maybe afraid to think into…

Sometimes, I fall for the trap where I get so involved in what other people are saying about a particular area of interest, that I stop thinking for myself… how to solve it, how to make it better… and instead listen to everyone else’s thoughts. Then my mind gets all frazzled what to do. I have to stop, and come out of that cloud into the clearing of my own thoughts.

We let ourselves develop patterns of behavior by allowing other sources to tell us what we should be thinking, what we should be doing, how to spend our time…what if we want to think and do something differently?

It is not wrong to think differently, to have a new idea, to want something apart from the status quo, to question what you’re doing or being told to do. That is part of our individual God-given autonomy.

Many great thinkers have turned into great doers.

The other side of the ‘thinking coin’ is some/too many are afraid of letting others think or voice their opinions/ideas. They fear change, loss of control, power, prestige. Their own insecurities try to quell the impact of another. Don’t give them that right over you.

What have I wanted to think about, but didn’t because I was afraid, or didn’t think I could, or should, or somebody might not approve?

Chart your course, begin to think for yourself again!