Many would say miracles are few to none in their life. What they fail to realize is that miracles only arise from a miracle ready mindset. A miraculous state of mind is one that is ready to believe God’s word regardless of what it looks or sounds like. So when miracles are present in a person life it is an expression of that person’s inner awareness of Christ and his work on the cross.
YOU DON’t Need Approval! Saturday, Mar 29 2008
Uncategorized 4:00 pm
News Alert: You can live without the approval of others! You will never truly love what you do if your need for approval from other becomes more important than enjoying what your doing. I preach because I love it! I write because I love it! Do what you do to be great in the eyes of God not men. This is when God can trust you with the desires of you heart.
Results or Excuses Friday, Feb 22 2008
Goal Setting and Results Or Excuses and Success 5:45 am
Results or Excuses
Your either going to produce excuses or results. Excuses place your Life on auto pilot headed toward Average Ave. & Destruction Blvd. +MW
When you really look at your life you can easily see that nothing good has ever been produced as a result of the excuses that you have been making. If you are ever going to see your goals, dreams and visions of your future come to past one of the first things that you have to do is be willing to remove all the excuses you have been using for why you can’t.
Excuses are defined as: reasoning of why one can’t do something, a self justification.
Results are defined as: the effect of right action.
Excuses are always the wrong action. Right action taken toward a goal will always produce a result that moves you closer to your desired out come. Don’t be fooled, excuses also have results that are all counter productive and moving you farther way from the life you desire.
The worst thing about excuses are after you make one about a particular situation it grows easier and easier for you to make another.
Example of the progression of Excuses:
v I can’t start or have my own ___________.
v No one in my family has ever had there own _________.
v Everyone was not meant to be in or have their own _________.
v Everyone that has ____________ is taking advantage of others.
We do this to take the edge off the guilt that we feel for not doing what we desire to do. What this does is launch and creates a limiting belief in us that allows us to be comfortable in not having what we desire. Results on the other hand are constantly moving you toward your dream. Though it may seem like only baby steps, remember every step is a step.
Example of the progression of Results.
v I may not at this time know how to _____________, but if others have that means it is possible.
v I know other people that have _______________, I need to ask them out to lunch and ask them to share with me.
v After getting all that new information I’m feeling much more confident that I can do this!
v I’m going to have or own _______________ and it is only the beginning of what I can accomplish! It is your choice, refuse to keep making excuses about the things that you know in your heart that you desire to come to past in your life. When you start accomplishing some of the things that you desire it will always build and stretch you to do more of what you have always only dreamed was possible of doing.
Warning!!!!
I have to warn you, as you begin to reach for your dreams and goals your going to make a lot of the people closes to you very uncomfortable. Your desire to pursue your dreams will convict others that have the same ability, but no determination. Make a commitment today to do just 5 things related to your desire everyday for the next month and you will be surprised at the progress you will see in your advancement of your goals!
Gaining Balance Audio Series Saturday, Jan 5 2008
Balancing Ministry and Family Career Ministry Family Career 11:10 pm
Interview from the Gaining Balance Audio Series (Work in Progress) Bishop Wilson Interviews Pastor Russell and Pat Smyers, Statesville NC .
http://odeo.com/show/17589253/1180086/download/GainingBalance.mp3
The Law of Attraction and A Balanced Lifestyle Tuesday, Jan 1 2008
Law of Attraction 10:48 pm
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The Law of Attraction & A Balanced Lifestyle.
By M. Christopher Wilson, Sr
We live in a world where things that should be counted as uncommon have become widespread. One of which, is more familiar than we would think, is people that have no balance in their lives. Balance is defined as stability, steadiness, and equilibrium.
When we speak of a person having a balanced life we mean that person has a since of stability in every area of their life. In the book the “Power of Focus” by Jack canfield, Mark Victor Hansen and Les Hewitt, they defined a balanced life as having “work that you love that gives you excellent financial return and allows you to have significant time off to pursue your other interest.”
For many of us if that is the definition of a balanced life then we would be quick to say we have a ways to go. However, the first factor to having a balanced life is to understand the reason why you don’t currently have the balance you desire. Nothing comes into your life without a mental invitation. The Law of Attraction says that like attracts like. Your lack of balance is not something that started a day ago or even a month ago. For your life to reach a state of being unhealthy and unbalanced it has been a process. The lack of balanced always starts with the careless decisions that you make that turn out in the long run to be unhealthy for you spiritually, socially, financially, and relationally.
When I speak of mental invitations I’m referring mostly to our non-deliberate attractions. Any thought that you have that is accompanied with strong emotions becomes an unalterable magnet that has the power to draw like situations in to your experience. When your mind is consumed with work related cares this magnet is at work making sure that you have and unbearable amount of what you have been thinking about.
Thoughts are literally regenerative in nature. The more you think about a particular subject or matter the more thoughts you will attract. The more you think about work the more work you will have to think about. If you are passive when it comes to your mind and thoughts you will find yourself in a state of being unhealthy & unbalanced very often. An unbalanced life is simply the outward manifestation of unbalanced thinking. Long before a person’s outward life shows up as being noticeably unbalance their thoughts have long been contaminated.
Since it is the mind that leads us to a state of being unbalanced we must first seek to regain a mental state of balance before we try to change individual habits. The attempt to change habits without first having a firmness of purpose in the mind is a futile attempt. We must remember that habits are only the products of thoughts. If we try to change the habit without changing the thoughts we will be fighting a losing battle. If you desire a different result you have to first develop a different way of thinking which leads to new habits.
The solution here is to use the Law of Contrast to become very clear in your mind about what you do not want. If you desire balance it is necessary that you first establish in your mind what balance would look like verses what you are currently experiencing.
What you have Vs What you want
Long hours. Vs Shorter Work days.
No time at home with family. Vs Quality time With Family.
Leaving home before daylight. Vs Sleeping in from time to time.
Coming home late. Vs Flexible Hours.
No vacations. Vs Vacations.
No Social life. Vs Time for Friends.
When you’re working with the law of attraction remember you get what you think about with strong emotions weather deliberately or non-deliberately. The more you focus on long hours the more jobs you will attract that require long hours. When you get down on yourself and start feeling guilty about not being able to spend time with your family you are then sending out a negative vibration. What this does is cause you to land in a position that calls for you to miss more time with your family.
Balance comes when we begin to focus on what we want and not on what we don’t want. If you truly desire to have shorter work days, to spend quality time with family etc then these need to be the thoughts that you are constantly mulling over in your mind. When you do this and can muster up strong emotions with those thoughts you have just set yourself on a mental path to regaining balance. You will see other start asking to help you with work you normally have to do yourself. You will find yourself being more productive and finishing projects weeks ahead of schedule. You may even find yourself landing a better job that offers you what you have only imagined!
What you do with this extra time is yet another self-discipline that you have to master. We say we want what we want, but when the Law of Attraction delivers it will we have the mental alertness to do what we need to do.
Remember, you deserve to have fun! Life is meant to be lived up close and in living color, not from in front of a 42 inch plasma TV. Creating balance demands change! That change starts with changing the way you prioritize, what is most important to you. Get that piece straight and allow the Law of Attraction to do the rest.
Summary:
- A Balanced life – that means that person has a since of stability in every area of their life.
- We invite our unhealthy & unbalanced lifestyle.
- An unbalanced life is simply the outward manifestation of unbalanced thinking.
- A balanced thought life must be gained first.
- Use the Law of Contrast to become very clear about what you do not want.
- Balance comes when we begin to focus on what we want.
- Correct thinking &The Law of Attraction delivers balance, be discipline to keep it.
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5 Resolutions Everyone Should Embrace for the New Year Monday, Dec 31 2007
Goal Setting 5:05 am
5 Resolutions Each Pastor Should Embraces as Goals for the New Year Sunday, Dec 30 2007
Goal Setting 1:49 am
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5 Resolutions Each Pastor Should Embrace as Goals for the New Year.
By M. Christopher Wilson, Sr
Each year millions of people make what we call New Year’s Resolutions. A New Year’s Resolution is a commitment made to a project or a habit. Often New Year’s Resolutions deal with a lifestyle change that is generally interpreted as beneficial. The word resolution is literally the act of resolving or determining upon an action or course of action, method, or procedure.
As a pastor and leader of others it is vital that you not only have a New Year’s Resolution, but that when ever you see that a change, improvement, or enhancement to your ministry or personal life is needed you are willing to focus and gain the mental state of firmness toward that purpose.
The Declaration Mistake
One mistake that I think many of us have made as it relates to New Year’s Resolutions is that we look at it as simply a declaration that we have to make that will in some magical way fulfill it self. If you’re going to make resolutions that can transform your ministry and life you have to understand that talking about it is not enough!
From Declaring to Goal Setting
Your resolution only has a chance of becoming a reality when you purpose it as a goal. One of the most powerful things you can do to begin the transformation of your life and ministry is Goal setting. When you set goals you then have a means of charting the course of your future which increases your chances of success.
The Golden Key
Even after you have begun the process of making your resolution a goal the golden key that many leave out is writing them down! There is a great quote that says, “The shortest pencil is longer than the greatest mind”. No matter how thought out you may think you have your goals as the old saying goes, “Out of sight out of mind”. It is critically important that you not only write your goals down, but that you make it a daily routine to review them.
Not Wishes
Remember, goals are not a wish list of ideas! Goals should be set with the intent of achieving. So there are a few things you have to have in place to help you with this.
- The Goal must be realistic.
- The Goal must be written out with great detail.
- The Goal must be measurable.
- One Goal at a time.
- The Goal must be inspiring.
- The Goal must have a deadline.
Paper not Stone
Another thing that we need to say is that goals are written on paper not in stone! That means that your goals are subject to change. Many times as you progress you will see that you need to tweak your goals. Please don’t be afraid of the process of rethinking and tweaking your goals if necessary.
So let’s get to the 5 most important resolutions that each pastor should embrace as goals for the New Year.
1. To replenish your desire to win souls.
One of the greatest investments that you can make for your church and personal ministry is the investment into a renewed desire to win souls. It does not matter who in your church has a desire to win the lost, the buck stops with you as the leader. If you don’t get it you’ll become the lid on your own ministry; stopping the influx of souls into the kingdom.
2. To put a strategic soul winning plan in place that involves every age group in your ministry.
As the leader it is imperative that after you have renewed your own desire for souls that you begin to inspire others to do the same. The word inspire literally means in-spirit. When we inspire others we are encouraging them to follow us as we are lead by the Spirit of God. At this point we will begin to see a spirit of agreement and fellowship kindled in our ministry.
3. To implement a leadership development program to mentor develop and train new ministers & leaders.
In ministry, as it is in the business world, our people are our greatest assets. Any one can stand up Sunday after Sunday and preach a sermon. However, it is a whole different ball game when it comes to implementing a leadership development program that can help others to define, clarify and develop their God given talents. Don’t be afraid to get help!
4. To begin to take 100% responsibility for the direction of your ministry.
When I speak of taking 100% responsibility I’m not in anyway insinuating leaving God out. When we look at the book of Genesis it is very easy to see that we have been calling on God to do many of the things that we have been giving dominion over. So when we look at the state of the church, our families, our communities and the world we need to stop blaming the devil and start taking responsibility for that which we have been given charge of!
If you’re the leader, your ministry, no matter what shape it is in is only a reflection of who you are. Nothing will change in your life and ministry until you are willing to take full responsibility for where you are. Stop blaming, complaining and start making changes!
To develop yourself daily.
If you’re not daily developing yourself believe me it will not happen by osmoses! If the only time your reading is on Saturday night to prepare for your next sermon you’re not developing yourself. When I say development I’m not necessarily talking about attending a seminar or college. Development starts with a daily routine to improve, better, and advance your self spiritually, mentally, physically and socially.
Unquestionably, the call to pastor is the greatest calling on earth, weather you are pastoring a church or, as I do, pastoring other pastors. I hope these five resolutions will only be the beginning of the goals that you will set, progress toward and achieve in this upcoming year!
Bishop Wilson is a leadership; life & Spiritual Coach that helps people identify, evaluate the severity of and remove the mental hindrances to their success.
If you need help creating a personal development plan consider allowing Bishop Wilson to coach you to success: http://www.bishopwilson.com/
Top 20 Reasons Why Pastors Should Write Articles Friday, Dec 28 2007
Goal Setting and Writing Writing 5:31 am
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Top 20 Reasons Why Pastors Should Write Articles
By M. Christopher Wilson, Sr
One of the greatest tools that has been used from the very beginning of time and is still available to all of us is the craft of writing. Before TV, radio, internet and ipods our entertainment and enjoyment was found on pages and pages of great manuscripts.
I know that we are in the computer age, but writing is still one of the greatest means of expressing and expanding our thoughts and ideas so that others can be taught, instructed and enlighten. It doesn’t matter if you prefer pen and paper, blackberries, palm pilots or laptops; writing is the birth canal for ideas that would other wise remain aloof dreams.I want to give you the “Top 20 Reasons” why I believe that every pastor and minister should consider writing. I’m not asking you to start out by writing a 200 page book; that will come! I just want you to start getting your feet wet by writing 700 to 1000 word articles. I know it may sound hard, but the key is to write about subjects that you are interested in! When you really set your mind to write thoughts expand as you stretch the creative potential of your cognitive thinking.In giving you my “Top 20 Reasons Why Pastors Should Write Articles” I will also give you a tip I have used to write hundreds of articles over the years. It is very simple, just find a subject that you’re interested in and make a list! This list may be 10, 20 or 100 things related to your topic of interest. Believe me; if you’re really interested in a subject you will not have any problem making a list of at least 10 subtopics (could expand into 10 separate small articles). You then use this list like and outline to begin the writing process.
Do I have to be a great speller? Do I have to use $100 words? Do I have to have a perfect understanding of grammar? The answer to any of the questions that people use not to write is NO! I’m not a great speller at all!!!! I still make many mistakes. However, I’m not willing to allow that to be a reason for me to stop doing what I love; writing! The more you write the more you will want to write and the better you will get!
OK, here we go, “The Top 20 Reasons Why Pastors Should Write Articles.”
- You should write articles because no one can say it like you do!
- Article writing helps you to expand your thoughts and ideas from intangible to three-dimensional.
- Article writing stimulates new ideas and thoughts for sermons.
- Articles uploaded to the internet can allow you to minister to people you will never meet who may not be willing to listen to a ministry audio or DVD.
- You should write articles because you can use a collection of related topics to create training manuals or devotionals.
- You should write articles because you can use a collection of related topics as the ground work for future books.
- You should write articles because everyone is not willing to read entire books.
- Article writing can brand you as an expert on particular topics.
- Article writing will cause you to be a more prolific speaker.
- Article writing has the capacity to give your presentations and sermons more content.
- You should write articles because the study and preparation will broaden the area of your expertise on a given subject.
- Article writing helps you develop another tool for not only casting but also expanding your ministry vision.
- Article writing causes you to be more articulate when it comes to verbally casting your ministry vision.
- Article writing causes you to be more likely to act on your own thoughts and ideas that will lead you to success.
- Some people are motivated by visional and not audible information.
- Articles solidify your thoughts for the next generation.
- Articles are easily and inexpensively reproduced and can be given away during your speaking engagements; with information about your ministry and website.
- A collection of related articles can be used as a manuscript for a great audio program that can be produced and burned to CD right from your home computer.
- Online articles have the potential of taking your teaching to tens of thousands of people.
- Online articles are great drawing cards that will influence people to come and return to your ministry website.
So what are you waiting for! Get started!
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Application:
- Make a list of 5 topics that you’re familiar with.
- Decide which topic you’re most interested in.
- Rank your topics from 1 to 5 with 1 being most interested.
- Over the next few days brainstorm and write 10 subtopics for each main topic.
You now have an outline for at least 30 or more articles.
Bishop Wilson is a leadership; life & Spiritual Coach that helps people identify, evaluate the severity of and remove the mental hindrances to their success.
If you would like to have Bishop Wilson to coach you to success, or having him to assist you with getting your articles online visit us at http://www.bishopwilson.com/
Expanding the Territory of Your Mind Thursday, Dec 20 2007
Unlease the Mind 1:53 am
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Expanding the Territory of Your Mind
By M. Christopher Wilson, Sr.
One of the most powerful tools that every person has is the human brain. The brain is more powerful and complex than any computer. Though it is readily accessible to all of us, very few are ever challenged to push the envelop of our mental possibility. Even in our institutes of learning, the use of imagination along with academics is not encouraged.
If we are ever to experience our life in the manner that we were created to live we must learn to take the breaks off of our mind and use our imagination. Your imagination is the key to entering the next season of your life.
Imagination is Key
In the same manner that the wrong use of our imaginations and thoughts can take us into a state of crisis, when used correctly it can be a vehicle to bring us out. Weather you know it or not, what you are thinking is either unlocking the door of your past or unlocking the door of your future. The same key, it just depends on which way you want to turn the knobs of your thoughts.
Self-Imposed Limitations.
The main reason that many of us keep seeing the same things appearing in our lives is because we keep using our key incorrectly. This way of thinking becomes what I call a self-imposed limitation. Why Self-imposed? Because the way you think is never forced on you. We all have influences, but the same way that you have dismissed other philosophies from our minds you have the power to dismiss the things that you have excepted as truth that you can now see are limiting you.
Every limitation that we have in our life exists only in our mind and they remain only by our consent. When we allow limitations to remain we develop ‘boxed thinking’. What that means is we begin thinking in predictable patterns.
We all have physical limits, but none of us truly have limitations. Can I physically lift 1000lbs? No. Can I find a way to lift 1000lbs? Yes! Can I buy a million dollar home right at this moment? No. Do we All have the ability and opportunity to make the money? Yes!
Every limitation that we have in our lives is nothing more than a product of our imagination. It is what you believe you can or can not do that makes all the difference in what you will or will not experience in your life. For everything that you believe that you can not accomplish there is someone somewhere that has been through something similar to what you have been through and right now is doing what you’re afraid to dream!
The people around you love it as long as you keep thinking in the realm of your self imposed limitations. You become a thread to their lives of mediocrity when you start to dream and talk about things that they are afraid of failing at. The only reason that anyone is afraid to try anything boils down to fear of failure.
Many people go off to college and earn many outstanding degrees and awards, yet their minds are still in park, condemning them to mediocrity. However, when a person gains and understanding of the power they possess with the human mind they can no longer remain in the realm of mediocrity.
Success starts with removing the self-imposed limitations of your mind. Mr. Henry Ford, founder of the Ford motor company said, “the person that says he can and the one that says he can’t they are both right’. His philosophy here is, your success and failure are a matter of what you believe about yourself!
Barriers
When we speak to people they can be very articulate when it comes to telling us all the reasons why they feel they can not accomplish their dreams. What they fail to understand is that all the barriers that they will encounter in their life are either strengthen or destroyed in the mind. The barriers that we all face will mostly deal with our attitude about the situation. A change in our attitude is one of the first things that has to take place. Your attitude about what you have to face truly makes all the difference!
The barriers you will face have nothing to do with:
- A lack of God’s resources being available to you.
- A lack of talent on your part that keeps you from prospering.
- Nothing to do with what you have done in your past and how people may look at you!
When the difference is you living a live of success verses one of suffering and poverty, who cares what people think! The only thing that can keep us out of the best that life has to offer is our wrong thinking!
Enlarge your Vision
One thing we need to pray and intend to manifest in our life is “eyes that are trained to see possibilities and are not focused on limitations! This is the beginning of the process of enlarging your vision. Before we can enlarge our vision we have to train our eyes to see possibilities and opportunities; finding the good in every situation. This comes with, as I spoke of earlier, a change of attitude. A change of attitude changes the way that you see things. When the way you see things changes the things you see or are attentive to will also change.
An enlarged vision without a change in attitude is useless. You don’t want to enlarge negativity. You don’t want to enlarge a scarcity mentality. You don’t want to enlarge low self-esteem.
From being a born again believer in the Lord Jesus Christ and growing up in the church, I had a lot of wrong teaching that I had to overcome to get to this type of thinking. In the church we were taught that no matter what the situation we are just to leave everything in the hands of the Lord. The proper meaning is, trust in God. The misconception is that we don’t have to do anything. However, when we have any understanding of biblical teaching we can quickly see that God did not create us to be the robots that religion has made us out to have to be. We have to be willing to be an active participant in our own deliverance.
If you’re going to enlarge your vision you have to learn to see through the eyes of faith & possibility, no matter what your natural senses are telling you!
- Faith that says I’m healed, when the doctors have given up.
- Faith that says I’m a winner, in the mist of a defeating situation.
- Faith that says I’m a winner, even when the once in your own family see you as a failure.
Unless you learn to see through eyes of faith & possibility you will only root yourself deeper in the reality of your current situation or worst you will be subject to repeating your past.
Memory of the Past.
People that are not going anywhere themselves will always try to remind you of where you came from. They do this to us not understanding that we have our own battles that go on in the mind that tries to keep us in that pattern of thinking anyway.
The mind, if left unattended, will hypnotize you into believing the way things were in your past are the way they have to be in your future. When you’re not actively guarding your mind, will and emotions your memories and your imagination become best friends. This is a dangerous combination! The reason being, you don’t want to allow the creative force of your life (imagination) to be anyway influence by your past.
It doesn’t matter if a situation was good or bad you should never waist time reliving your past. When a person has an addiction all they are doing is longing for that first high again. This is the same thing many are doing with their thoughts, trying to relive a past sensation.
The caution about reliving bad situations in our mind is this; any thought that you have that is accompanied by strong emotions has the ability to manifest in your life again. That is why people that have just come out of bad relationships need 6-12 months, some times longer, to get rid of the attachments in their mind. If they start looking for someone else while they still have thoughts and strong emotions about the relationship gone bad, the only kind of person they will attract or that will be attracted to them is someone like the person they were with before.
Understanding Desire
When we speak of expanding the territory of our mind and enlarging our vision it is very important that we explore the subject of desire. One thing that I have learned about desire that I think many over look is that Desire is always created by sight. What you see will create a craving in your conscious mind, more commonly known as a desire.
I’m sure that we have all heard that Faith comes by hearing, but desire comes by seeing. With that understanding you have to be careful of what you set before your eyes. Everything that may look good to us may not be good for us. The more you see anything the more involved you become with that thing on an emotional level. That is why pornography is so addictive. It not only affects you hormonally there becomes an emotional attachment.
Involution
If we are to enlarge our vision we have to be honest with ourselves and have what I call an involution. An involution is a going within the mind with the intent of investigating. During this internal mental investigation we need to ask ourselves what incorrect images of self am I entertaining.
A person is defeated in their mind long before it is apparent to those around them. Heavy Weight Champion Joe Lewis said, “Champions are not made in the ring, the champion in them only shows up there”.
Whatever shows up in you has been cooking for awhile. Winning, being victorious, being prosperous, having joy, being happy all starts in the mind. You have to develop and image in your mind of you doing well, having success in what you desire to do. You will quickly see this change in thinking is very important once you come to understand, you get precisely what you expect out of life.
God’s Desire for You.
God’s desire for all of his creation is increase and prosperity!
Deuteronomy 8:18 KJV But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, …
Our birthright is one of increase and prosperity. You need to know this, but you are the only one that can stretch your faith into accepting this truth. Remember faith comes by hearing and desire comes by seeing. As you expand your desire you automatically begin to stretch your faith. The stretching of your faith comes when you begin to desire something that is beyond your natural ability to accomplish in your own power.
Stinking Thinking
If you are to ever enlarge your thinking you have to rid yourself of all your stinking thinking. You can identify stinking thinking by the way it makes you feel. The emotions that are attached to these thoughts will keep you attracting more thoughts like them for you to think and the result is like situations will keep showing up in your life.
If we could get people to be honest we could see that 90% of the people that find themselves victims of any acts of discrimination had at some time been active in entertaining thoughts of being discriminated against.
You have to STOP!
- Stop thinking failure and start anticipating promotion!
- Stop thinking sickness and start thinking about good health until you find yourself eating better and working out at the gym.
- Stop revisiting and rehearsing your past and start envisioning YOU’RE future.
There can be no change in your situation until there is a change in your mind! Nothing moves unless the mind moves it! You have to make room for increase in your mind long before you will see it in your reality.
Enlarging your vision is:
- Stretching your faith.
- Invites God into your situation.
- Awakes the infinite co-creator in you.
New Wine Skins
In days past people would keep their wine in wine skins created from the flesh of animals. New wine skins were soft and pliable, but they would lose there elasticity with age. When new wine was poured into old wine skins the wine would expand and the bags would burst wasting the wine. New wine DEMANDED new skins!
Our mind is just like those wine skins. Think about how you thought just 10 years back compared to now! Time has caused us to not be as flexible in our thinking! If you’re going to enlarge your vision you can’t keep a restricted attitude about your life. Success DEMANDS a new way of thinking!
The way things have been are not the way they have to stay and yesterday is not a reflection of your tomorrow, if you allow your thinking to change! Expand the territory of your Mind!
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The Thine Line Tuesday, Dec 18 2007
Goal Setting and Success and Unlease the Mind 5:17 pm
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THE THIN LINE
By M. Christopher Wilson, Sr
I’m sure have all heard the statement “There is a thin line between love and hate.”
Another thought along that same concept is this:
There is a very thin line between your Success and your failure.
Between living out your dreams verse living in your worst nightmare.
Between having your desires and having to settle for less that you desire or deserve.
The differences
The difference lies 100 percent in the seemingly insignificant choices that we are making in our thoughts actions and deeds everyday, all day! Think about it, the only thing that separates you from the millionaire next door is the choices that you on a daily bases!
- Not his money
- Not the opportunities that you feel they may have had
- Not the family they were born into.
The truth of the matter is all roads from were you are and your can go any were from were you are!
Not the Big Things
We have been made to think is the big decision that make all the difference.o Marriage is big, but what about how your choice to treat you spouse on a daily bases. That seems like a small thing, but it is what determines if your going to married 5 or 50 years.
The career you choice, that is a big thing, but the choices you make about that job on a daily bases is much more important.
It is the simple and small choice made every day that are shaping your destiny or sealing your demise.
Why?
Why is this such a big problem? It is as easy not to do these things as it is to do them.
Daily Disciplines
We have to develop daily disciplines in our thinking:
- To make Choice that build on our success!
- To stop looking at our decisions as one time events with not future consequences.
No Quantum Leaps
When it comes to your success there are no:
- Escalators
- Elevators
- Big breaks
- Or lotteries
Success is defined as the progressive realization of a worth ideal or goal. The key word is progressive, slow and steady movement forward. When it comes reaching your dreams there are no quantum leaps. Even if you see someone that ha seemingly has a quantum leap in there life or career, asking about the process and your find out the real story!
Success consist totally of baby steps that are compound over time to create mile after mile of defined success. Defined success means you didn’t stumble into it you planned it.
One Step in the Right Direction
A better anything starts with one step in the direction of your desire! Allow the steps that you make in your decision making to be your yellow brick road to your land of Oz.
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