POSITIVE THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK (Week 20)

REJECTING THE CALL OF THE GOLDEN CAGE

For all my adult life, I've heard the call of the golden cage.

Each day I faced the same choice; live the golden life or step into the golden cage.

The golden cage has many benefits, but the hidden liabilities are even greater.The only way to buy the golden cage is with the currency of my youth, and even that payment isn't enough.To live inside the golden cage, I must mortgage my health as well.

I tell myself that someday I'll escape the golden cage, and I'm right.I'll either hobble out in my "golden years" or they'll carry me out when my life is done.

But the golden cage is not for me.The siren call that beckons me onward is the sound of my dreams.Don't look for me in a golden cage, because I won't be there.

The world is my home, and wherever my dreams take me, that's where I'll be.

POSITIVE THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK (Week 19)

THE POWER OF POSITIVE FOCUS

Focus gives me powerful leverage over my mind.

When I focus on a thought, it forces my mind to look in the direction of that thought.When I focus for a minute, I push my mind in that direction for a minute.When I consistently focus on it for weeks and months, my life moves in that direction.The focus of my mind expands into my life.

POSITIVE THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK (Week 18)

GOD DOESN'T DO UGLY

Everything that God does is beautiful.God doesn't do ugly.

Beautiful things bear witness to God's love and care.They are perpetual reminders that God created a good world, and that life is also good.

It's easy to forget about God and to focus on other things. A plethora of problems and a paucity of hope blinds people to the presence of God.

Spiritual blindness runs rampant on planet earth.People struggle with all sorts of addictions, depression, loneliness, and they don't see how there is any hope.It's just for folks like these that God created beauty to remind them of his love.

God is never far from us.We swim in his ocean of beauty, and we are immersed in his ocean of love.All we need to do is open our eyes and experience it.

POSITIVE THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK (Week 17)

REACH FOR GOD'S DREAMS

I love this picture of a butterfly reaching for his dreams.From his perch, he leans forward as far as he can, and he extends his proboscis to its very limits to suck the nectar of life.This butterfly is going for it.

Butterflies are programmed to reach for their dreams.Their tiny brain is on autopilot, and they don't have any choice.Their brain is locked into the nectar of life.

Although my brain is a trillion times larger and more complex than that of the butterfly, I am not on autopilot.God gave me the power of choice, and if I ever live my dreams, it will be because I chose to.He gave me the ability to decide my own destiny and to choose my own dreams.

God even went one step further.He has a dream for my life that is better than anything I can imagine.He has a plan that's custom designed just for me, and if I run with his plan I will have an awesome adventure.

I'm not restricting myself to my own limited dreams.I am reaching for God's dream for my life, and I can hardly wait to see what happens.

POSITIVE THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK (Week 16)

VISUALIZATION -LOOKING WITH YOUR MIND

Sometimes you look with your eyes, and at other times you look with your mind.

Visualization is looking with your mind.

We know that what we look at expands into our lives.If we are smart, we advertise our dreams to ourselves by displaying their pictures where we can constantly see them.The more we look at them, the stronger the dreams become, and the more influence they have on our destiny.

Sometimes, it's impossible to create and display a picture of your dreams because an image doesn't exist. That's where visualization comes in.It lets you see things in your mind's eye that you can't see with your physical eyes.Looking with your mind's eye -visualization -has nearly the same power as looking at an actual photograph.For all practical purposes, your brain doesn't distinguish between an image that you see with your eyes from one that you visualize in your mind.

I put a picture of Bora Bora on my wall more than ten years before I actually arrived there on my yacht.But if I didn't have a picture, I could have achieved the same result by visualizing Bora Bora in my mind.It didn't matter whether I saw the image on my wall or visualized it in my mind; the net results were the same.I had Bora Bora on my mind, and I was willing to move heaven and earth to get there.

Visualization has great power for both good and evil.Unfortunately, not everyone uses it to visualize good.They visualize bad health, poverty, and depression, and like night follows day, problems expand into their life.

Each day when I wake up, I visualize my future.In my mind, I see myself doing dozens of things that move me in the direction of my dreams.I visualize the path to my dreams so that when I walk down that path, it will be a trip through familiar territory.

When you visualize your future, don't forget that God has a dream for your life that is better than anything you can imagine.If you get in agreement with God and visualize his master plan, your life will become an awesome adventure.

POSITIVE THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK (Week 15)

GOD'S EXCELLENT PLAN

You are not an accident.You are part of God's excellent plan.

After God created the universe and populated it with life, He focused all his creative power on his final masterpiece.In an instant of time, He created man in his image so that you bear the likeness of God.

Whether you realize it or not, God embedded excellence into the core of your being.From the top of your head to the tip of you miraculous big toe, you are excellent through and through.God has a plan for you life custom designed for just you, and that plan has excellence stamped all over it.

If you have been beaten down into mediocrity, and if you feel there's no reason for hope, it's time for you to listen up.You have the ability to achieve excellence in at least one area of your life, and that's just the beginning.There's no limit to how good your life can become when you align yourself with God's master plan.

POSITIVE THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK (Week 14)

TOUCHING GOD
I love pictures of butterflies.When I saw this photographed one, I felt like I was touching God.The light was just right and the beauty so stunning that I couldn't believe my eyes.

That's the way God's beauty is; when you see it, you just can believe your eyes.

When God created the world He had a master plan.He decided that everything He touched would turn to beauty.God doesn't do ugly.He only does beauty, and He does it on a grand scale.Beauty is God's fingerprint.

Everything that God creates is beautiful.I've been alive for quite a few years now and during all those years I've never found anything created by God that wasn't beautiful.I think that's why I love beauty so much.It's the closest I can come to actually touching God.It's like God and I are living on opposite sides of a two way mirror.On his side He touches things and makes them beautiful.On my side I touch the same things and experience his beauty.I can see the tip of his finger and my finger coming together in a million beautiful places around the world.