Words of Advice (Things I have learned in my Life)

• Everything you experience is a lesson, learn from it, don't let the lesson pass you by, learn what you can from it, because you will go through it again.
•  Enjoy who you are, because there is only one of you.
• You are what you say you are, just like you are what you eat, so talk nicely about yourself, because the more you put yourself down, the more of it you believe. Believe the best of yourself, you will be the best you can be.
• Believe you can do it, it is amazing what belief does, it changes the outcome.
• If you say you can't do something, you will never know, because you already gave up, you never tried, because you failed in your mind first, that is the biggest problem, believe that you can and watch what happens. 
• Avoid using negative phrasing, such as words like "Never" "Always" "Forever", those kinds of words are bread with challenge and for some reason they create something in our brains that cause us to do the very thing that we say we will not do. Avoid these words at all cost.
• Negative thoughts and negative phrases can destroy you, it brings down the whole room, it takes one negative person to destroy a mood, even if there are 4 positive people in the room. The power of negativity is huge, be careful not to be negative, run from negativity, if you see it around you, don't try to change the person, you can pray for them, but run from them. You can't change who they are, only God can change them.
• No one else can define who you are, no one else can change you, it is up to you to change who you are and it is possible, it takes work, but work at it and you will do it, it take moment by moment commitment to change you. 
• Change you perspective changes your view, try to change your view, you will miss everything. Change the way you look at things, changes how you see the world and all that is in it. 
• Things are here today gone tomorrow, enjoy the things that last, like people say what you mean and mean what you say. 
• Words can't be taken back, they hurt more than a knife, they leave scars that can't be seen, the cut deeper and leave lasting impressions on people, watch carefully what you say. Words hurt! Be careful what you say, the words that come from your mouth, originate in your heart.
• Love is a choice, not a feeling, make the choice every day to love the one you are with, feelings come and go like the wind. If we base our love on a feeling we will fall in and out of love like our car runs out of gas. We don't buy a new car every time our car runs out of gas, we fill up the tank, just like with love, we need to make sure we keep our love tank full. Make sure you are filling the tank of the one you are with love tank.
• Be who you are meant to be, that is yourself. Don't try to be someone else, you are designed to be you, you are the best person to be you. To many people try to be someone else, that person is that person for a reason. You are you, you were designed and made to be the only you.
• We all have different paths in life, although different journeys, different stories, we all can learn from each other. Don't ignore someone because they have a different story, learn from them. 
• Wake up each day, don't curse the day, give thanks for waking, be thankful for life, for what you have. For some people don't have a roof over their head, don't have a pillow under their head or even a bed, be thankful for everything. Stop complaining, change every complaint into a praise, it will change your life.
• Change how you phrase things and it will be amazing how people will change how they receive what you say, the only way to change a persons way they see you, is to change yourself. You can't change them, you can only change you. 
• When we say we believe, do you truly believe, our actions define our belief, if you are worried about everything in life, that defines how much you truly believe, because Jesus said "Do not worry." How many people are lost in the worries of the world, we can't change it, we can pray for them, but we must trust the God who made us, He has gone before us and He has a plan for our lives, it takes us getting up and living.
• God didn't say it was going to be easy to live and walk in His ways, in fact He told us narrow is the gate, that defines our life path, it is easy to stray off a narrow path, we need to walk the path. We need to move, life isn't accomplished just by praying that we have the will to move, it is by getting up and moving, by doing, but by doing God gives us the strength to do it, He gives us the words to speak, He gives us the wisdom to accomplish His work, we will not accomplish the work He has set out for us by sitting and praying that we have desire to do it, like reading His word. Sometimes we may have a period of dark days of the soul, but we must still run after the truth, search for it, for it will not just happen, we must go after it, for the longer we are in the dry period, we will stray from the path and narrow is that path and easy to get lost along the way. Stay true to His word, hide His words in your heart, keep them close to you, hunger and thirst for righteousness, seek Him and you will find Him, do you believe that He is really real? 
• My Mom would always ask the very question, do you truly believe that He is really real? That question is a deeper question than I realized, because for many He is not as real as they believe. Seek ye the kingdom of God and All His righteousness, how can you do that, if you do not believe He is who He says He is? How can you abide in His word, if you do not truly believe His word is the truth? How can you follow His commandments? The first and most important commandment of all, is Love the Lord your God with all Your heart, soul and Mind, how can you do this, if you truly do not believe? Because the longest road traveled is the road between the mind and the heart, if He hasn't traveled between head knowledge and heart knowledge, what is He to you? I implore you to seek Him, who is Jesus Christ to you? 
• People are too worried about how they feel, what is right for them, what is wrong for them and maybe they should stop thinking about that and turn it around and say "Lord, what is right for you, how does this make you feel, what grieves you, because what grieves you, should grieve me." We have forgotten God's heart of the matter and that is what is more important than our own hearts. We have forgotten that He is our teacher, He is the one that taught us what Love is, He is the one that taught us what Marriage is, He is the one that taught us how to raise our kids, He is the one that guides us and teaches us. Isn't it time that we seek Him first? Not ourselves, for we are seeking the wrong person. 
• In all our ways we need to acknowledge Him and He will direct our path. Give thanksgiving to Him in all things, come to His presents with Praise and His courts with thanksgiving. Need I say more? How many of us are doing this, are we full of negativity, full of everything that is wrong, that we don't like, instead of thanking Him for everything? Like Covid, can you imagine thanking God for Covid... Oh, but wait, it has shown us so much, don't trust horses and chariots, we must trust the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, because some where putting there trust in the wrong thing. We must trust Jesus only, not the news, not the government, not man, but Jesus. 

I could go on and on, but I will post this and I am sure I will add another one after this, because I have so many more to go on, these are things I have learned in my life, who knows they may not apply to you, maybe they will. But these are things I have picked up along the way. I enjoy writing, thank you for reading them. Have a blessed day.