“Comfortability will cost you; there are benefits to stepping out of your comfort zone!“

What does that mean?

Have you ever been driving through town and noticed two separate gas stations across the road from each other; however, one of the gas stations is cheaper per gallon than the other? 

Have you ever noticed that people still stop by the more expensive gas station to get gas instead of driving right across the street to save money? 

Maybe they have just grown so comfortable with the more expensive gas station and they know what to expect there. Everyone knows them there, and they would feel uncomfortable going across the street to try something different. 

The people who choose to pay the extra at the more expensive gas station have a level of comfortability that is now costing them more money.  

We are the same way sometimes; we will often times hang around the same people and places even though those people and places are costing us big time. 

We have to be brave enough to walk away from the people, places, and things that cost us our peace, time, money, and life.

Life presents us with many different opportunities to change our situation, but we have to make the decision to leave what we have always known and take a leap of faith into the unknown. 

Comfortable is easy, but it will often times cost you more than you will ever know. 

If the good things in life were easy, everyone would be happy; however, sometimes we have to make the difficult decision to get a little uncomfortable in order to reach our life’s full potential.

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“Stop focusing on the bad and start highlighting the good”.

What does that mean?

It is very easy to look at our life, our relationships, our friendships, and our jobs and make a list of all the bad things, the negative attributes, and times things didn’t live up to your expectations. 

What if we tried something different? 

We use highlighters when we want to make something good, positive, encouraging, and important stand out. Why not do the same thing in our lives and relationships? 

Why is it so much easier to point out what someone is doing wrong versus what they are doing that is good?

When we use a highlighter on our lives and relationships it allows for us to highlight the good in our lives and relationships instead of all the bad. 

Take the time to highlight the good things in your life and what the people around you are excelling at. 

Not every person you meet is failure and not every single day is filled with nothing but horrible things. 

If you take a step back and analyze your life and relationships, you will find that there are a lot of highlighter-worthy moments and attributes. 

Make someone’s day and highlight their accomplishments.

Make your own day by highlighting some accomplishments of your own.

Make a dark, gloomy, and depressing day better by highlighting the few good moments you experienced. 

Be a highlighter in the lives of those around you and your own!

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“Take some time to reflect on everything you have to be thankful for.”

What does that mean?

We spend so much of our day, so much of our lives worried about what we DON’T have.

We are envious of our neighbors, constantly trying to “keep up with the Joneses”. 

We very rarely take the time to slow down, take a step back, and reflect on everything we already have to be thankful for.

The month of Thanksgiving is almost over, and Thanksgiving is tomorrow. There is no better time to reflect back on everything you have to be thankful for this year.  

Comparison breeds discontent, reflection brings contentment.  

If you are always wanting more, more, more, if you are always looking at what others have, and if you are always looking ahead, you will be discontent, angry, resentful, and frustrated. 

If you stop, look back, and reflect, you will realize everything you already have to be thankful for. 

Not to say it isn’t important to set goals, look forward to exciting, new things, and constantly work to improve yourself and your life; those things have their place as well. 

The important part is not to ONLY focus on the future. You will never fully appreciate the future and where you’re going if you don’t take the time to be thankful for where you’ve been. 

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“Be thankful for who you have the potential to be!”

What does that mean?

Have you ever heard or used any variation of the phrase “I’m too ____________”? 

“I’m too young”, “I’m too old”, I’m too poor”, “I’m too tired”, “I’m too uneducated”, or anything like that? 

We often times discount ourselves before giving ourselves the shot to accomplish our goals, dreams, and aspirations. 

We sell ourselves short and put limitations on ourselves before we even try. 

We’ll never reach out potential if we limit ourselves; we need to start be thankful for who we can still become!

If there is still breath in your lungs, you still have a plan and a purpose for your life.

Sometimes, we have to take a leap of faith into the unknown to achieve what we have been called to achieve. 

So many people waste their potential by creating excuse after excuse, but that doesn’t have to be you! 

Start today by being thankful that who you are today doesn’t have to be who you are tomorrow. Every day is a new opportunity to take ahold of your purpose and run with it. 

You can be so much more and you can do so much more than you give yourself credit for.

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“Be thankful when you fail, be thankful when things don’t go according to plan”.

What does that mean?

Failure often gets a bad reputation. Failure causes us to get mad, frustrated, and angry; however, what if we flipped the script on that? What if we started being thankful when things didn’t work out?

Crazy, right? I don’t think so!

Failure teaches us, corrects us, and disciplines us. When we don’t get the outcome we wanted, we have to trust there is a reason behind it. 

What if we didn’t get what we wanted when we wanted it because it was protecting us from something or preparing us for something? 

What if failure was meant to protect and prepare us?

What if you were running late for work to protect you from an accident? 

What if you didn’t get the job because there was a better option coming soon?

What if you didn’t win so it would push you to be better? 

What if that relationship didn’t work out because there was someone better who wouldn’t hurt you as badly? 

What if you go sick and couldn’t go out and you didn’t get robbed or assaulted?

Those are a lot of examples, but they all say the same thing; sometimes things don’t work out for your benefit. Sometimes your plans have to fail so that you can succeed. 

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“Be Thankful!”

What does that mean?

It is finally November, the month with a holiday meant for reflection and giving thanks. 

We spend so much time wanting more and more and being so ungrateful, but I believe it is high time to change that. 

It is so easy to point out things that aren’t going right, or things we wish we had; however, it is vital for us to take time to reflect on what we have to be thankful for.  

Why do we expect to be blessed with more if we aren’t thankful for what we already have?

Being thankful shouldn’t be reserved to just one Thursday a year, we should practice gratuity every single day!

You have breath, your needs are met, indoor plumbing exists, we rarely ever have to fear for our lives, many of us have jobs and families, many of us have vehicles and phones, and all of us have much more to be thankful for than we ever take the time to realize. 

I hope you will join me for the rest of this year and take time each day to simply be thankful for what you have, what you’ve survived, and what’s still possible.

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“What you listen to and who you listen to is what you become!”

– Gary Vaynerchuk

What does that mean?

How long has it been since you’ve slowed down, taken a step back, and looked at everything and everyone that is speaking into your life? 

We listen to music, people, movies, TV shows, podcasts, and more every single day, but do we ever pay attention to what they’re saying?  

What we listen to the most is often who we become. We tell ourselves something long enough, we are likely to believe it. 

If you can’t figure out why you’re angry, mean, and negative all the time, have you tried changing up what you’re listening to? 

You can only pour out what what has been poured into you.

If you want to be more positive, motivational, inspirational, hopeful, joyful, or at peace – you need to start taking it all in more often. 

You are a sum of everything and everyone that you listen to and give time to each and every day. 

If you want to see different and be different, it is time to make some changes in your life.

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“Positivity is a competitive advantage!”

– Jon Gordon & Jon Acuff

What does that mean?

The world is filled with negativity everywhere you look. When you choose to be positive, you will stand out! 

Approaching life with a positive mindset may feel unnatural at times, but it has many benefits over remaining negative 24/7. 

When you show up to work, school, or home with a positive attitude, you already have a step-up on everyone else. 

Positive people are noticed more, hired more, promoted more, and have more success in most areas of life (just trust us!)  

Positivity helps you stand out amongst the competition and receive more (and better) opportunities!

Approaching every day and every opportunity with hope and positivity will motivate and encourage you as you work on your goals. 

Don’t allow the world, the news, your coworkers, your friends, or your family’s negativity flood your life with doubt and cause you to miss out on success and opportunities. 

Choose to be different, choose to be better, choose to be positive! 

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“You haven’t failed until you stop trying”. – Jon Gordon

What does that mean?

Failure is scary, and sometimes we give up because we fear failing. Sometimes, we never even start something because we are afraid that it will fail. 

People who really want to see results; however, won’t give up so easily. 

They have learned that you haven’t truly failed until you have given up. 

Once you give up and stop trying, the only option is to accept that you have failed, but if you keep trying and do not give up, you can’t experience failure. 

Just because you feel like you failed once, doesn’t mean you have failed completely.

We have to use what we learn from each time things don’t work out quite the way we wanted, and then try again, better informed than the last time.

You haven’t truly failed until you have given up completely; don’t give up until you achieve what you set out to achieve. 

Maybe you’ve tried rehab before and it didn’t work out the first time. So what? Try it again. 

Maybe you’ve tried exercising more, but found yourself missing the gym more than you wanted to. So what? Try it again. 

Maybe you’ve tried eating healthier, but you found yourself snacking again every day. So what? Try it again. 

You control whether or not you fail; don’t let failure tell you what you can and can’t do. 

Defeat failure with actions. Defeat failure with goals. Defeat failure with grit. Defeat failure with discipline.

Keep trying. Period.  

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“Stop speaking death over what you want to see happen in your life!”

What does that mean?

We are so quick to jump to a negative, pessimistic outlook on what we want to see happen. 

We say things like “I don’t deserve this”, “This will never happen”, “This won’t work out”, or any other variation of those. 

If we want something to happen, why are we so quick to kill it before it has a chance to? 

It is time to start speaking out of faith that what we want to see happen will, in fact, come to pass!

There is nothing wrong with being hopeful, faithful, and optimistic. In fact, you will likely find you have a better mindset when you shift from speaking death over things to speaking life over them. 

There is enough negativity in this world as it is, there is no need for us to add to that.   

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