Do Something Different

Here's some follow-up thoughts from yesterday. So many times our problems take center stage in our lives and basically that's all we see. We have issues like: too little money, too little time, not enough attention from our spouse, locked in a dead-in job and etc. We focus on these issues so much that they grow larger and larger until they dominate our view of the world. That's all we see. Our world revolves around our problems and sometimes we convince ourselves that we are the only ones with problems like this.

Open your eyes. You are not the only one with issues. We all have issues. We all have challenges. If you would spend as much energy on finding a solution to your problems as you do on complaining about them, I believe that you would discover a whole new world. I don't mean to be unsympathetic, but it irks me when people have a possible answer right in front of them and they don't act on it. They talk about it, but they never do it. The Bible says that mere talk will lead to poverty. You don't have a money problem, you have an idea problem. It's time to start thinking new thoughts.

How do you think new thoughts? What are you listening to? Listen to something different. What are you reading? Read something different. You cannot do the same thing over and over and get different results. If you want something different, then do you something that you have never done.

Most people are stuck in the same place because they are scared to do something different. What are you afraid of? God has not given you a spirit of fear. Instead, he has given you a spirit of power, love and self-discipline. Use what you have. The answer to your problem is right in front of you.