Happiness
depends on your mindset and attitude. ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
Very
little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way
of thinking. - Marcus Aurelius
Over the last couple of weeks, I have been discussing how important it
is to train our minds to think positively and encouragingly about oneself. D. Martyn Lloyd Jones states that we need to
stop letting our minds tell us what to think and instead tell our minds what to
think:
“Have
you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you
are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself? Take those thoughts
that come to you the moment you wake up in the morning. You have not originated
them but they are talking to you, they bring back the problems of yesterday,
etc. Somebody is talking. Who is talking to you? Your self is talking to you.
Now this man’s treatment [in Psalm 42] was this: instead of allowing this self
to talk to him, he starts talking to himself. “Why art thou cast down, O my
soul?” he asks. His soul had been depressing him, crushing him. So he stands up
and says, “Self, listen for moment, I will speak to you.”
As I was dealing with past experiences recently, I had to talk to
myself and tell myself I was not what I had been told many years ago. I had to replace what I was told with strong,
positive and confident statements.
CHALLENGE: Mindsets are one of the most important things
that help people accomplish their dreams.
How is your mindset today?
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