June 6, 2022
No matter who we are or what our circumstances, we swim in conversations about what there isn’t enough of. For many, the first waking thought of the day is “I didn’t get enough sleep.” The next one is “I don’t have enough time.” Whether true or not, that thought of not enough occurs to us automatically before we even think to question or examine it.
We spend most of the hours and the days of our lives hearing, explaining, complaining, or worrying about what we don’t have enough of.
We don’t have enough…time, rest, exercise, work, power, fun, weekends, money.
We’re not…thin enough, smart enough, pretty enough, fit enough, educated enough, successful enough, rich enough - ever.
Before we sit up in bed, before our feet touch the floor, we’re already inadequate, already behind, already losing, already lacking something. And by the time we go to bed our minds race with what we didn’t get in or didn’t get done. We go to bed burdened by those thoughts. The mantra of not enough carries our day and become a kind of default setting for our thinking.
What begins as a simple expression of a hurried life or even a challenged life, grows into the great justification for an unfulfilled life.
It becomes the reason we can’t have what we want or be who we want to be. It becomes the reason we can’t accomplish the goals we set for ourselves, the reason we compromise our integrity, give up on ourselves or write off others. It shapes our deepest sense of ourselves and become the lens through which we experience life.
Joyce Meyer shares, “you cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.” Your thought life is directly related to your attitude. What consumes your mind controls your life. In other words, what you think secretly in your heart is expressed in your words, facial expressions, and attitude. Inner joy can be yours if you DELIBERATELY choose to take control of your thinking and change your attitude.
Would you rather be around people who have poor attitudes or people with humble attitudes, thankful attitudes, positive attitudes, and responsible attitudes?
Change your thoughts and you’ll change the world. It’s your choice!
-Adapted by the Soul of Money