Getting control of our lives.
Sometimes it feels like we are out of control of our lives. Bills are due, there is no money for the extras, things keep happening and we feel like we will never be in control.
All of that is just life, and you don't have to live it that way. Understand that you DO have control. Only you can improve your lot in life. Broke? Find a way to make extra money to pay those bills, to buy those extras. When things happen, deal with them. then move on. Realize that you ARE in control.
You don't need excuses:)
I was like this last year. I felt so out of control of my life. I listened to a recording of a seminar given by Dani Johnson (http://www.danijohnson.com/ has the recording, sign up for free, and listen to it yourself!!) regarding excuses that people make in their live and call them reasons. It changed my whole outlook on life. I realized that I was FULL of excuses!! Saying things like "I don't have time." or "I can't afford it" are excuses, not reasons. Don't have time? Make time. Get up earlier. Go to bed later. Stop watching TV for hours on end. How many times can you watch the same Law and Order rerun anyway?? Learn to prioritize. Really can't afford it? How many times did you eat out last week? Stop at Starbucks for a $5 dollar cup of coffee that would have only cost you pennies if you made it at home? Went through Walmart and filled your cart full of stuff you don't need because it was Buy One Get One? Stopped at the gas station and went in and paid a $1.29 for a 20oz coke when you could have bought a 2 liter for the same price or less?
I saw another presentation given by Richard Paul Evans, a well known best selling author (http://www.winninginthemargins.com/ (sonyareads is the password), and it gave me something to focus on. It's about how to win in the margins, how to look outside the box to generate income to help me take control of my financial future. It made me realize that I should not just be depending on my job to make an income, to pay my bills. This is something deep down inside I knew, I just didn't acknowledge it. You know it too. What happens when your job gets downsized? Or you get hurt and can't work? If you are depending on that as your sole source of income, what happens next?
I finally did it. I took control of my life. I stopped making excuses, or at least I'm trying to. Almost everything that happens in life is a result of choices that we made. For the things that happen to us that AREN'T the result of a choice we made, how we deal with them is still our choice. For once, I am breathing easier, because I know that I can change my future, I'm not sitting in despair thinking things are never going to get easier. I'm going to MAKE Them easier. You can too!!
Sonya Smith
http://www.earnwithbooks.com/
www.shopgbg.com/314673
All of that is just life, and you don't have to live it that way. Understand that you DO have control. Only you can improve your lot in life. Broke? Find a way to make extra money to pay those bills, to buy those extras. When things happen, deal with them. then move on. Realize that you ARE in control.
You don't need excuses:)
I was like this last year. I felt so out of control of my life. I listened to a recording of a seminar given by Dani Johnson (http://www.danijohnson.com/ has the recording, sign up for free, and listen to it yourself!!) regarding excuses that people make in their live and call them reasons. It changed my whole outlook on life. I realized that I was FULL of excuses!! Saying things like "I don't have time." or "I can't afford it" are excuses, not reasons. Don't have time? Make time. Get up earlier. Go to bed later. Stop watching TV for hours on end. How many times can you watch the same Law and Order rerun anyway?? Learn to prioritize. Really can't afford it? How many times did you eat out last week? Stop at Starbucks for a $5 dollar cup of coffee that would have only cost you pennies if you made it at home? Went through Walmart and filled your cart full of stuff you don't need because it was Buy One Get One? Stopped at the gas station and went in and paid a $1.29 for a 20oz coke when you could have bought a 2 liter for the same price or less?
I saw another presentation given by Richard Paul Evans, a well known best selling author (http://www.winninginthemargins.com/ (sonyareads is the password), and it gave me something to focus on. It's about how to win in the margins, how to look outside the box to generate income to help me take control of my financial future. It made me realize that I should not just be depending on my job to make an income, to pay my bills. This is something deep down inside I knew, I just didn't acknowledge it. You know it too. What happens when your job gets downsized? Or you get hurt and can't work? If you are depending on that as your sole source of income, what happens next?
I finally did it. I took control of my life. I stopped making excuses, or at least I'm trying to. Almost everything that happens in life is a result of choices that we made. For the things that happen to us that AREN'T the result of a choice we made, how we deal with them is still our choice. For once, I am breathing easier, because I know that I can change my future, I'm not sitting in despair thinking things are never going to get easier. I'm going to MAKE Them easier. You can too!!
Sonya Smith
http://www.earnwithbooks.com/
www.shopgbg.com/314673
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Comments (2)
Jennifer Underwood11
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I love Dani Johnson. I ordered her cd's last year. She is great!
Great blog...so true! Thx!
Susan coils7
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Well said Sonya.
We all have choices and we all have to accept the responsibility for those choices. Once you accept that, life becomes much easier. You don't have to look round wondering who's to blame and who's to thank.