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Do you ever feel like you have a hard life? Perhaps you wonder, “Does it ever get any better?”

I say, “Yes. It does – if you get unstuck.”

We get stuck in a cycle of despair when we think we are helpless to change. We make the mistaken notion that our future is dictated by our past. In reality our future is dictated by our beliefs and our actions.

Put your behind in your past!

I love Timone and Pumba from the Lion King. They had wise words for poor Simba, whose past included some tradgedy, for sure. Simba’s future didn’t look very bright.

With a flourishing song and dance, Timone and Pumba encouraged the young lion. “That’s why it’s important to put your behind in your past!”

What good advice from some animated creatures.

Why do we dwell on the past? The good life is yours right now. If you open your heart to a spirit of gratitude instead of a spirit of dispair, you will find find your future is so bright, that you need sunglasses! How do you create a bright, wonderful future? The same way you create a bright, wonderful present – by giving voice to it.

Your words create your reality. Why? Because they affect the way you believe. Try saying some things right now.

Focus on something that is good in your life. When you choose gratitude, you get more of those kinds of things.

Speak up! Say affirmations that speak to what you want instead of where you lack.

“Right now I am blessed and not cursed.”

“Right now I have more than enough!”

“My needs are met and I’m out of debt, and there’s plenty today to give some away!”

“Today is the best day of my life.”

“My future is brighter than my past!”

Keep it up. Your destiny is in your hands…and in your heart…and in your mouth!

Romans 10:10
For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.

You got this.  I believe in you.

 

Gina

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