403 I Invite The Burglars In Becasue What I Have Cannot Be Stolen | February 2018 Wednesday Week 2

Wisdom Wednesdays-#403 February 7th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Invite The Burglars In Because What I Have Cannot Be Stolen “Our Intention Creates Our Reality.” ~Wayne Dyer A burglar broke into a home. He heard a soft voice say, "Jesus is watching you." Thinking he was just hearing things, he continued stuffing items into his burglar bag. Again, he hears: "Jesus is watching you." He turned his flashlight around and saw a parrot in a cage. He asked the parrot if he was the one talking. The parrot said, "Yes." So he asked the parrot his name, and the parrot said, "Moses." The burglar asked, "What kind of people would name a parrot Moses?" The parrot replied, "The same kind of people who would name their pit bull, Jesus." How did you start your day off? Well besides listening to me of course… Did you wake up as late as you possibly could? Maybe you even hit the snooze button a few times. Did you go through your normal routine rushing in the morning trying to get everything crammed in, so you can arrive at work or the place you need at the precise moment when you need to be there?   In the normalcy of life, it can be easy to get into the routine of monotony. We know what needs to happen each day, and so we don’t actively plan how we’d like our day to go. And I don’t mean planning out all the appointments and activities you’ll have to do throughout the day.  I’m talking about being intentional in how you want your day to go. I’m talking about focusing on how you want to feel and visualizing exactly how you want your day to unfold.   There’s power in purpose; there’s energy in focus. But we take our lives for granted thinking things happen to us, rather than things are happening for us and things are created because of our focus. So if we aren’t intentional about our focus for the day we have a scattered life where events happen, and we react. But when we visualize what we wish we create, we create not only the possibilities for that happening but we create the resolve for us to continue the path no matter how hard it gets.   And for me, it’s easy to forget this. It’s easy to get out of alignment when I’m not taking care of myself as I should. The days where I’m staying up too late which messes with my sleep cycles for the next morning, the days where my eating patterns are off as I’m focused on stressful emotions, or the times where I am allowing other people’s actions to affect my emotions as I get stuck in a negative thought loop in my head.   And in our lives we allow others thing to control us. Something doesn’t go our way, so we tell a story about how sad it is for us, how unlucky we are, if only we could get a break, or the story asking why are people out to get me. And so people become burglars of our peace and happiness…not because they have the power to do that…but because we open our front door for them and let them in. But the problem is not that they entered our peaceful home like a bull in a china shop, the problem is we made them out to be the problem when they were never the ones in control of our emotions. They never were the ones holding our dishes in their hands, we put a power in them that they never had, and we believed it was because of them that we are frazzled when in fact we are the ones giving power to things and people that never had any control over us.   When we aren’t intentional about how we want to feel during the day, and make that our main goal, we will not have a target to point ourselves towards. We spend most of our time thinking about the physical things we want to have happen…which is a nice thing to do…but it’s putting the cart before the horse. You’re going about the goal all wrong, and when you get the thing you want, if you ever do, it feels empty because you weren’t focused on the reason you wanted that goal—the feeling it would give you. And it won’t matter how well you visualize your day if you don’t decide to be the master of your emotions first in that visualization.   The burglar of our peace and happiness isn’t in the hands of others—the burglar has always been us. And like the story about the pit bull named Jesus, we are getting our butts bitten and are upset wanting to blame others for our misfortune when it’s always been us leaving the door open. It’s always been us trying to sabotage our peace and happiness.   It’s easier to put the blame on others when life seems unfair. We’ve put expectations on people and things to be our saviors, our friends, or the people who we wanted to be on our side no matter what. And it’s not that we can’t have good people like that in our lives, but when you put your hope in something else instead of remaining resilient in yourself…then you can always take the easy way out. You will shine the magnifying glass of blame elsewhere instead of doing the hard work…and readjusting your emotions.   I’m going to tell you a secret that most people will never tell you: life, is disappointment after disappointment. But that’s not the secret. The secret is the disappointments, are actually life’s blessings. For if we got what we wanted right away we wouldn't respect it and be able to hold onto it, and the other aspect is we wouldn’t really know how committed we were to something because we didn’t have to work for it. So the disappointments are actually beautiful; and maybe the trick is not to live in disappointment, but to be fueled by it.   And that’s why being intentional about how you want to feel throughout the whole day is important. It’s the way to direct yourself and keep you focused no matter what happens during your day. And I don’t mean any disrespect here because I’ve been here many times in my life—but that’s what weak people do—they let their surroundings dictate their emotions and their outcome. You are the architect of your life, but only if you begin being intentional about how you plan on building your day. And only if you stop blaming others for stealing your peace and happiness…because in the end…they never had any control in that matter…the control was always yours.   Today’s Personal Commitment:Start your day off differently. Sure look through your to-do list, look through your planner at your appointments, think about all the things you want to get done…but make sure that you ALWAYS start your day off by visualizing how you want to feel. Start your day off visualizing how you would like your day to go. Make a mind map and you will find the more you do this then the more the world will be aligning and creating what’s in your mind.   We think the outside world is a construct of it’s own accord, but those who remember to use the power of intention and focus will make the construct of their mind a part of this outside world.   I Invite The Burglars In Because What I Have Cannot Be Stolen   Thanks for listening.  I'm sending great energy your way as we become Strong Within together, Personal Development Life Coach- Chris O'Hearn Contact info- email: [email protected]  phone:865-219-3247     Music by: - Zest by basematic (c) copyright 2011 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. - I Have Often Told You Stories (guitar instrumental) by Ivan Chew (c) copyright 2013 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. Location: Knoxville, Tennessee USA but available worldwide