There will be a last time

16,700 is how many days I have been alive. Have you ever stopped and thought about it. There will be a last time. A last time to wake up., A last time to tell someone you love them. A last time to pick your child up and hold them for one day they will be to big. A last time to go to your job because your to old to work and your body can't take the stress of work anymore. A last time to do somthing for someone else, because your no longer able to help yourself. I say this not to you saddened. I say this to get you thinking. You have today to make a difference in this world. Once a day is spent, it gone. I often fight the old black dog of depression and the mulligrubs. I just can afford to let a day go by with that dog following me around. I refuse to feed it. If you don't feed a stray dog he want hang around very long. Learn to forgive, don't hold a grudge. Think of others before yourself. Pray daily and study God's word and apply it to your life. Those things will starve the black dog. Oh he will come around from time to time. You may even start feeding him without even thinking about it. With negative thoughts and attitudes . You can let that old dog steal your day and your joy. Or you can choose on purpose to starve him out. We can't always control all our circumstances which can often bring the old black dog around. The thing we can do is. Choose to have peace in our lives and a good attitude in our circumstances. So what if today where the last time for something for you? Would you send that text, write that letter, make that call, hold that child. Go after that dream? Somthing to think about. Just a thought JM                                                                                                                                      "Dream as if you'll live forever.                                                                                                             Live as if you'll die today."                                                                                                                     James Dean born Feb 8 1931, died September 30, 1955                                                                        He lived exactly 9,000 days

Failures

How often have you tried something and failed? Failures can often cause us to build emotional walls, to protect ourselves. The bad thing about that is those emotional walls. we often hide behind. Which offers a faults sense of security. That is what I call living life on a feeling. Now I'm not saying we don't feel the pain of a failure. Those feelings are very much real. Hiding behind our fears keeps us from living life to our top potential we have. Also it can often cause us to live unhappy, and in a unproductive life. Yes we should use wisdom in life and be smart in our decision. Even taking the time to think somthing thru. I like this saying. "Don't wish it was easier wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom" Jim Rohn When we learn from our failures we grow and gain wisdom. Which makes us better from our past experiences to the next go around. The best way to look at failure is it's not and opption. Thing may not always turn out the way we want or planed. That gives no reason to ever quit trying, because we are afraid of failure. Steve Harvey says it best. "You just have to jump." The first step is always the hardest. Just my thought for today. JM

What About You

Very few people get it when they are in there 20's and some may get it in there 30's. Hopefully by the time they are in there 40's they got it. Some are really hung up and it takes to there 50'or longer before it clicks. The age old question. Is this all there is. I'm talking about the question of life. When I was 38 I became very restless with how my life was going. I just didn't do anything about it, until I turned 40. The nagging thoughts of my purpose and my priorities in life where much to be desired. The just working eating sleeping day in day out routine, just wasn't cutting it anymore. How to get out of that rut was a challenge with in it's self. For the fact was I didn't know where to began. I just knew I had to. The day dreaming I had always done about how I wished life would be wasn't working. I was going to have to take some action. That's when I learned about on purpose living. Not very many things just fall in our lap. Well at least anything worth having that has any value of life to it anyway. The began stages of anything that has a long road ahead. The road of life will be traveled. You can choose to travel it or just stay in the ditch. When I made up my mind that I wanted my life to be different. To have some kind of purpose I did know where to start. I just knew I had to start. The first thing I did was pray and ask God for help. Then I began to started getting my mind off myself. I looked for opportunities to help and uplift other people. I also have read lots of books to challenge me and grow myself. I also had to quit useing the exues. I had uses for so long that I do not have enough education. The other thing was I had to do was quit comparing myself to other people. Also stop wearing about what people thought of me. All those fears had stopped me for years. I have always enjoyed lifting people up and get them thinking. At least for the past few years anyway. I Love to write what's on my mind. As you can tell my grammar skills are not that great. I offen use to let that stop me. Then I decided if my grammar is a hang up for someone and they can't get passed that. Then my stories I write are not for them any way. So the question remains. What is your purpose? Are you living life? When is the last time you did somthing that made you feel alive? These are all questions I couldn't answer a few years ago. I was living life by breathing eating and sleeping. That was it, exciting huh. Now I live life with passion and on pupose. Do I always feel like it? Nope! I just made up my mind I would. I can't control many things in life for sure. I can't change everything around me. So I have learned to quit trying to change what I can't change. I plan ahead of time. I'm not going to let those kinda of things bother me. I tell myself. Here was a big one for me always being right is highly over rated. I don't have to prove or argue with someone to prove a point. Well since I said that I just as wells add this. Holding a grudge or staying mad at someone does nothing good for me either. The person that I'm mad at really don't care. There off having a good time and I'm all stressed and mad. So I'm letting a mad upset state of mind run my life. I have to ask myself really is I worth it. No it's not to me. Now learning to let things go takes alot of practice for me. I have to say this to myself alot over and over. Let it go, let it go, let it go. You see all these kind of things where stealing my life. When these thoughts feelings and emotions. Flare up everything was all about me. I just want more from my life than day in and day out living. What about you?

See Yourself

Can you see yourself there? When you have a goal or a dream in my mine. Do you see yourself already there? When I was at my peak weight of 270 pounds. I wanted to be 200 pounds so bad. I was just so far away from it, that I was over whelmed. I locked and image of what I would look like and feel like at 200 pounds. Six months later that image became a reality for me. When you really get serious about somthing and use all the tools that are available to you to help get you to where you want to be in life. And you get your mind made up, you become a very powerful force. That goes from getting out of debt, having a better marriage or bettering your education. You yourself know what your goals and dreams are. So go for them there yours to be had. Read books study on what ever it is your reaching for. It's never to late as long as your still breathing.To have what's out there for you. Work harder on yourself than you do on your job. If you are always working on yourself. Your always growing as a person. If you have set backs that's ok. Don't let quitting be and opption. There's a fire in you. All you need is a little spark. Have a great awesome day.

Your Mind effects your health.

Question? Do you know how you think and your outlook on life, has alot to do with your health. Have you ever stopped to think about what your thinking about? How do you see yourself as a person? What stays on your mind most of the time? Worry, Anxiety and fear maybe. Good questions to ask yourself what am I think about. Alot of times what we think has a whole lot to do with how we feel. Here's somthing to try. Think somthing good today on purpose about yourself and your life today.                                                                                                                                                            Do you know we don't have to think about what everything that falls in our head. We can on purpose think about somthing else. I use to think in a very negative way about myself. My confidence and belief in myself was very low. Which caused me to always think nothing in my life could ever change or be any different. The way I changed that was to stop my stinking thinking. Started thinking on purpose! Now thinking on purpose takes alot of practice. What is the first thing you think of in the mornings when you wake up? Are your thoughts like, this is going to be a lousy day. Or I hate my job and so on, you get the point I hope. You see thinking that way first thing in the morning. You have already set yourself up for a rotten day. You have think like today is going to be a good day. My job is tuff but I have the privilege and opportunity to provide for my family. Here's one other thought. Say you know I choose to let today be a good day. I may not like everything that happens in my life today. That's ok but I'm planning ahead of time to have a good day no matter what comes my way. I will be happy today. That's on purpose thinking. When I started doing this I started feeling better physically, emotional, and mentally. Is this easy? Not at first, but doing this on purpose everyday, it starts to come natural. Just try for 30 days to think on purpose about your life and see how it makes you feel in your health. You may actually feel some change in your overall health. By doing this one simple thing. Mind, attitude,and emotions effects us all. Have and awesome day.        www.jmaddoxhealth.com                                                                                       www.facebook.com/jeffhealth/