The secret to change your life

A persons life only changes when they change their thoughts. Everything you do and everything you have been, up to now, is a result of the thoughts you’ve had. Your decisions are influenced by your thoughts, and your reactions are guided by them.

So basically, if you want a better life, you have to improve the raw material that forms in your thoughts.

Raw material?

Yes, the raw materials which form in your thoughts include:

• Beliefs
• Culture (customs and traditions you grew up around)
• The information taken in through your eyes and ears
• Friends
• Others opinions
• Your principles and values

Some of these things are rooted in us, observed from birth. Others are around us, influencing us every minute. But all of them began on the outside, before going into our minds and forming in our thoughts.

Thanks to the “fearfully and wonderfully” way we were made (Psalms 139:14,) our brain adapts to what we feed it. That’s why the fastest way to permanently change your life is to guard what you allow into your head.

If you begin to feed it with the best of raw materials, it will be able to generate better thoughts. Better thoughts will help you take better decisions, generate better reactions to the things that happen around you, and it will give you better results.

And all of this is totally under your control.

source: www.renatocardoso.com 

Five things that make you stuck - 5th

Evil Eyes

A lot of people do not move forward because of cynicism, evil eyes.

Jesus said: “The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!" Matthew 6:22

How can you move in darkness, have you tried to walk inside the house when the light is off, you will hurt yourself by bumping into things in your way.

We have free will, you can chose how you will look at certain situations, you can say this person did not mean to hurt, or he is having a bad day etc... and not look at them with cynicism because when you do even if you are right you become wrong.

God bless you.

4th Thing that make you stuck

Grudges

Someone once said keeping a grudge is like drinking poison and expect the other person to die.

No one can move forward while holding back to grudges and resentments of the past.

It is not a question of the person being right or wrong, you are not forgiving because of them or because they deserve but because God has commanded us to forgive, that is why we do it.

"For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.  But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses." Matthew 6:14,15

Your heart does not want to forgive but you should pray for the person, mentioning her/his name and say I forgive you.

Then go to them and ask for forgiveness, don't go to them to argue or create more problems simply ask for forgiveness.

May God give you strength to get unstuck from this grudges.

I will post the last one tomorrow. 

3rd Thing that make you stuck

Doubt

Doubts are responsible for many people failures, that feeling of uncertainty stops you from making a decision or going forward with what you intend to do.

"But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. James 1:6,7,8

How can you be free from doubts?

Doubt it, yes doubt your doubts, when the doubts come to tell you that you will not succeed you say i doubt it, i will succeed etc... also you should resist the doubts using the word of God like Jesus in Luke 4.

May God bless you, Be free now from all doubts.

Five things that make you stuck - 2nd Thing

Fear

We see a clear example of how fear can hold you back in the parable of the talents, the one who received one talent said:
"And I was afraid, and went and hid your talent in the ground. Look, there you have what is yours.’Mt 25:25

Because he was afraid he decided to hide the talent the master gave him.



The same has been happening with many people, they are stuck in life because of their fears:

• Still single for fear of marrying, or had bad experiences in the past and are afraid to have the same again.
• Afraid of applying for a job, your immigration papers or even to start your business.
• Afraid of talking to your family or seek help about how you are inside for fear of being judged. 
• etc...

Well the list is endless but there is a solution.

Remember when you were a child and your mother or dad held your hands and you could go everywhere because they were with you, God says: "Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” Joshua 1:9 

Face your fears, go dare and do it, for God is with you holding your hands.

God bless you.

Five Things that make you stuck

As we are preparing for the Unstuck event I would like to talk to you about five things that make you stuck and can block your growth.

1st : The Past

There is a saying in my country that those who makes a living from the past are the ones who owns a museum.

See what God has told us to do and promised to do in our life's:

“Do not remember the former things,
Nor consider the things of old.
¹⁹ Behold, I will do a new thing,
Now it shall spring forth;
Shall you not know it?
I will even make a road in the wilderness
And rivers in the desert. Isaiah 43:18,19

If you want to unblock or unstuck your life, to move forward you first must stop looking behind, move on, go forward.

God is with you.

Tomorrow I will share the second thing that keep you stuck.

Parable of the Good Samaritan