The Why of this Blog

One of my favorite quotes is: "If you do what you have always done, you will get what you have always gotten."

So how does one do or behave differently?  By thinking differently.  And how does one think differently?  By believing differently.  hahaha

Translating that quote then means if I believe differently, I will live differently.

This is very similar to another saying I've always hated because I disagreed intensely with the thought that I was responsible for the current status of my life.  
"You are where you are and what you are because of your established habits and thoughts and deeds."

I was responsible for never having enough money?  For not often going on vacations while my friends did?  For not finishing college, which is why I didn't make the money I otherwise could.  I was responsible that I was always having to tell my kids we couldn't afford this, and on and on.  I  was responsible for that???  

I couldn't wrap my brain around this because there were always reasons, circumstances, other people - like my dad, my ex-husband, cops, my friends,  the Deltas at Clark Atlanta University, the United Negro College Fund, God,  Satan, Dr. Johnetta Cole; other people who were responsible for why I didn't have what I should have, why I wasn't where I should be.  Everybody else was responsible, not me.

Victim, anyone?

I know it's harsh, but unless we accept certain truths, we can not change those truths.  It wasn't until I accepted that, "you know, maybe I drank a little too much for my comfort",  that I was able to change my drinking habit.  
Unless I accepted that I in fact really did drink more than I wanted to; I would have been locked in a never-ending cycle of "yes I do, no I don't" query that would have left the issue dangling and unresolved.

And the bile-tasting truth of the matter is no one else is responsible for my present conditions except me.  Which is great really, hopeful even, because at the end of the day, I can't control or change anything or anyone else.  But I can learn to control me, and my thinking. 

Progress is about transformation.  So enough with the denial.  
Progress is not about placing blame, it's about looking at the problem and coming up with a solution.  What can we do differently to think differently, to believe differently, to receive differently; NOW?

I've come to learn:

Thoughts lead to Feelings.

Feelings lead to Actions.

Actions lead to Results. - T. Harv Eker 

So... If you want to change your results, your reality, you will want to change your thoughts.

This is very much in alignment with the scripture that states, faith is defined as the substance of things hoped for; the evidence of things not seen.  Taking the unseen, our thoughts, to form or create what is visible, our reality.  

And the end result, or the journey to which we are traveling by changing our belief system, is financial freedom; being rich.  How did you feel when you read that?  Being Rich.  

If you felt a twinge of discomfort of any type, you owe it to yourself to join me on this journey.

I am tired of not having enough money to do the things I desire to do in life.  And I believe that being rich really matters.  Why isn't it plausible for me? If there is an answer to this, I pray it is NOT because I am counting myself out by my belief system!

© 2009 MP Mokeyane.