You Become What You Focus On

Our mind is a very powerful thing, and most of us take it for granted. We believe we are not in control of what we think because our thoughts seem to fly in and out all day long. But we are in control of our thoughts, and we become what we think about.

Someone once said to me, “If you don’t like what you’re thinking about change it.” That statement hit me like a ton of bricks. I never really thought I could change my thought patterns.

It’s really not a secret, that power is available to every single person. And it’s free. The secret is that we become what we think. It’s possible to create the life you want by simply thinking the right thoughts. What do you think about all day long, every day? What’s on your mind day after day?

We are creatures of habit. We tend to follow the picture in our minds created by our parents, our neighborhoods, our towns and the part of the world from which we come. For the good or the bad.

When my mother told me who and what I was day after day growing up. I began to think that it was true. My thoughts become negative about myself. So I started to not care about me, because I thought no one else it. Every day every hour of thinking bad thoughts I began to become what my mother told me I was.

But we don’t have to think bad or depressing thoughts. We each have a mind of our own, capable of imagining life the way we want it. We can say yes or no to the choices we encounter every single day.

Start by replacing every negative thought with a positive thought. I used the Bible standing on the promises of God and who He said that I am,

God says that,

• I am valuable
• I am fearfully and beautifully made
• I am redeemed
• I am forgiven
• I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me

If we imagine our life the way we want it. Create a picture in your mind and think about that picture every day and believe it. You don’t have to tell a soul. Have your own quiet confidence that you can make the picture in your mind come true.

You will start making different choices in line with that picture in your mind. But know there will be obstacles. Don’t let those obstacles stop you. Keep moving toward that picture you have of yourself.

Replace every negative thought with a positive thought and it will become your truth.

What do you have to lose?