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Mind-Full: It’s Just About… Life

January 7, 2015 By markbrodinsky 4 Comments

correct your mind

There are more than 360 posts on this blog and today I would say this is the one you should read. Again and again.

It’s true that as the saying goes, “if you’re thinkin’ is stinkin’ so is your life. You are what you think about all day long.

Think negative and you get more of the same, it snowballs until the energy you give off brings more of that to you, like an avalanche that  you buries your potential and your life. Think positive and the same thing happens, it builds on itself and your energy of  bright light and possibility attracts more of the same from the universe all around you.

Think you are more than you ever thought possible and the impossible becomes possible. Consider we only use anywhere from 5- to-10 percent of our mental capacity, (without some self-education that is), so imagine what is possible if you reach 100 percent. Heck, imagine what is possible if you begin with only 20 percent, doubling your current capacity to learn, to earn, to love. You have that power.

Every day, every moment really, you can begin with a clean slate. It’s not that anything negative won’t ever happen, but when it does, you can turn it around in a positive light, or more importantly turn your thoughts and feelings around to handle it differently. Feel gratitude, give unconditional love, learn at every turn. Think, feel, believe, achieve. It takes practice, but so does anything in life which is worthwhile.

Isn’t your life worth it?  Why not begin with this thought:

You get to fill the blackboard of your life with whatever you want. If you have filled it in with baggage from the past, wipe it clean. Erase everything from the past that does not serve you, and be grateful it brought you to this place now, and to a new beginning. You have a clean slate, and you can start over – right here, right now. Find your joy and live it!

– Rhonda Byrne, Author, The Secret

Find your joy…and your purpose:

Your purpose is what you say it is. Your mission is the mission you give yourself. Your life will be what you create it as, and no one will stand in judgement of it, now or ever.

– Neale Donald Walsch, The Secret

Yesterday is history. Today is your day:

You’ve come to this juncture in your life, merely because something in you kept saying, “You deserve to be happy.” You were born to add something, to add value to this world. To simply be something, bigger and better than you were yesterday.”

Every single thing you’ve been through, every single moment that you’ve come through, were to all prepare you for this moment right now. Imagine what you can do from this day forward with what you now know. Now you get that you are the creator of your destiny. So how much more do you get to do? How much more do you get to be? How many more people do you get to bless, simply by your mere existence? What will you do with that moment? How will you seize the moment? No one else can dance your dance, no one else can sing your song, no one else can write your story. Who you are, what you do begins right now!

– Lisa Nichols, The Secret

Right now. Three quotes to affect great change in your life. There’s that power of three again. But it’s only magic if you live it.

Go back and re-read the messages above, then go read some more. You never know when one book, one thought, one idea might change your life.

You and I are undeniably great. If we think it, feel it, believe it – we will then act to achieve it.

It’s probably no secret here I just finished reading, The Secret. My goal then, my mission, my purpose is to share. You don’t have to agree, you don’t have to believe, you can think otherwise. It’s all up to you. You get to make a choice any day, any moment – just remember whatever you choose to think will become your life experience.

The choice is up to you. This is it – starting right now.

Until next time, thanks for taking the time.
Mark

Mark Brodinsky, Author, Blogger, Financial Services

Author: The #1 Amazon Best-Seller: It Takes 2. Surviving Breast Cancer: A Spouse’s Story
(www.spouses-story.com)

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  1. Steven Broussard says

    January 7, 2015 at 7:51 am

    Mark, You are such an inspiration. Everytime I read your blog, (almost daily) I’m able to get a renewed perspektive (!) on my day and my life! Thank you, Steve

    Reply
    • markbrodinsky says

      January 7, 2015 at 8:35 am

      Thank you Steve. Inspiration and “perspektive”!

      Reply
  2. Robert Commodari says

    January 7, 2015 at 8:54 am

    Nice piece Mark. Just keep getting better and better

    Reply
    • markbrodinsky says

      January 7, 2015 at 9:23 am

      Thanks Rob!!

      Reply

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I love waking up and starting my day with my coffee and your blog! It a great way to start my day with positive uplifting thoughts!! It puts me in a positive frame of mind throughout the day and allows me to reflect on my personal life, make changes, and grow !!!

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