Extreme Makeover- Attitude Edition

 “Where the mind goes, the man follows” – Joyce Meyer.

As I was reading this yesterday I realised it how true it was. Everything we do, or don’t do for that matter, begins in our heads. Then all those other quotes that you hear every other day  about how our thoughts become actions yada yada came to me. I’ve heard it before and it makes perfect sense each time, but I had never thought about it nor had I tried to personalise it.

 How many things have u failed to do before you even tried?  Just last week I woke up with the urge to write something and I had all these ideas swarming in my head. I decided I would start a blog then in the next moment I was doubting myself. I had a conversation with me and I realised I had so many what ifs. What if no one read it or they did read it and they hated it. What if none of it made sense the list goes on and on. I asked my husband he said if I wanted to do it I should (like he says about everything. I swear he would say the same if I said I wanted to cut my head off). I thought about it the whole morning then I realised for every plus I came up with I could come up with a million minuses. So I said to myself I would do it anyway. Even if only one person read it and they hated it. One week later I’m glad I did. But this is just one of the few incidents where I let my positive thoughts overrule the negative. Most of the time I find it easier to just tell myself “honey you could never pull that off” and sadly I believe it and I don’t even try. Then a few weeks down the line I start to regret. All the people we read about in the history books started off just like me- ordinary people with ideas. The difference is they took the plunge.  They could have spent the rest of their lives procrastinating but they didn’t. They could have said it’s too hard but they kept at it. They could have just told themselves how silly their idea was, laughed it off and left it at that. Because of their attitudes the Wright brothers, Leonardo da Vinci, Florence Nightingale and the rest of them left a mark on this world.

Google defines attitude as “A settled way of thinking or feeling, typically reflected in a person's behaviour”. I will be the first to admit that I’m not as driven as I should be. I lose heart easily and I’m quick to give up when it looks like it’s beginning to get tough. Sometimes I lose interest when I shouldn’t and that attitude has cost me too much. I also procrastinate – I have been meaning to start school at the end of the month for the past three years. And I am an expert when it comes to making excuses. It has dawned on me that it’s not that God has not answered some of my prayers, He has but I have been too busy or lazy to rise to the occasion.

From today I’ve made up mind to stop making excuses. I’m going to do anything I want (if the law permits) and I’m going to be so darn good at it. I intend to surprise myself and the world. I’m not going to do “it” tomorrow (whatever it is). I’m changing my attitude. This not a new year’s resolution but a “rest of my life” resolution. I’m done waiting to react to favourable situations it’s high time I start making favourable situations for myself. it’s not going to happen overnight but I will work hard at it and I won’t let anything stop me. My time starts now.