Serving Up An Ace - More On Choices

No, this is not a Wimbledon related post I assure you!

I've had one, two, three, maybe four drinks this evening (an excellent french red and a can of lager if you must know, lol!) after serving at the #Blingteaparty and it was an exhilarating experience seeing all the lovely ladies at !Audacious Church get celebrated just for being themselves!


I've had my own struggles of late as I've described in recent postings, but tonight I had a breakthrough of my own in relation to how I was reacting to the previous night's comments from the one-to-one session.

The thought that set this off?

I turned up feeling fed up and wondering just why in the hell I was there, so I prayed to God knowing that this was my duty I was doing in helping make sure the tea party went off with a bang. This was all with the intent of rising above my circumstances, my problems and making sure I was there to honour the ladies with an unbiased stance.

In response, the following statement resonated through my mind pretty much the whole evening as, sitting at the back gave me plenty of time with my own thoughts: -

"You can either get disappointed, or you can get inspired!"

I would be futile and say that I've no idea where it came from (when I do), but instead I'll say that it led me to think how in the past I'd definitely react the former and get disappointed. Now, 2014, is the time for the new me to arise, the me that says that you can throw whatever opinions at me you like, I'll always come back for more but I'll come harder, faster and stronger as the song goes!

Final Thought

Check this I've just found in our !Audacious devotionals because I think it highly relevant given my recent postings on choices: -

"Your life doesn't just "happen." Whether you know it or not, it is carefully designed... The choices, after all, are yours. You choose happiness. You choose sadness. You choose decisiveness. You choose ambivalence. You choose success. You choose failure. You choose courage. You choose fear. Just remember that every moment, every situation, provides a new choice. And in doing so, it gives you a perfect opportunity to do things differently to produce more positive results."

This is taken from Steven Covey's book "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People".

Now, watch this if we compare "pro-active" people with "re-active" and see which category you fit into: -

Being proactive is about taking responsibility for your life. You can't keep blaming everything on your parents or grandparents. Proactive people recognize that they are "response-able." They don't blame genetics, circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. They know they choose their behavior. Reactive people, on the other hand, are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior. If the weather is good, they feel good. If it isn't, it affects their attitude and performance, and they blame the weather. All of these external forces act as stimuli that we respond to. Between the stimulus and the response is your greatest power--you have the freedom to choose your response.

Wow!

There's definitely enough here for me to re-visit at a later date as I've only just scratched the surface with posting his thoughts, so I'll do that next!

Peace out!