I've been doing a Joyce Meyer devotional in the Bible app from her book "Battlefield of the Mind". Today's devotional was about how our negative thoughts affect us and direct a lot of what happens in our lives. I've heard versions of this before. For example, Dr. Becky Bailey's: "What you focus on, you get more of" and I've found it to be very true. However, it can be hard to re-focus those negative thoughts into positive ones when it seems everything around you is going wrong.
I managed to hold it together pretty well while Tom was in the hospital last week and remain positive. But then yesterday, I found myself extremely cranky and annoyed by everything and even said something really mean to Tom. Of course, as soon as it came out of my mouth, I regretted it. But I still said it out loud. This morning, things look better and I feel terrible about what I said and how I felt yesterday. I'm reminded (in the words of Gretchen Rubin) to "act the way I want to feel". What we think about and what we focus on matters a lot. So today, I put my focus on my Three Be's for 2020:
Be loving!
Be thankful!
Be Happy!
and with a bonus Be Tracy!
I managed to hold it together pretty well while Tom was in the hospital last week and remain positive. But then yesterday, I found myself extremely cranky and annoyed by everything and even said something really mean to Tom. Of course, as soon as it came out of my mouth, I regretted it. But I still said it out loud. This morning, things look better and I feel terrible about what I said and how I felt yesterday. I'm reminded (in the words of Gretchen Rubin) to "act the way I want to feel". What we think about and what we focus on matters a lot. So today, I put my focus on my Three Be's for 2020:
Be loving!
Be thankful!
Be Happy!
and with a bonus Be Tracy!
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