“Celebrate the day! Rejoice and be glad! Celebrate everything! You can if you think you can! Don’t wait for it to happen. Make your day marvelous! Celebration is a choice. Gratitude is a choice. So is negativity, complaining and wallowing in fear, worry, doubt, anger, hatred, sadness and frustration. Everything is a choice. You must understand how choice works because it may not seem like it. Happiness is a choice.

We’re somewhat hardwired to react based on how we grew up, what we learned, how we were conditioned and programmed by others and experiences. Our brain lays down reliable neural networks which keep us consistent from day to day, moment to moment. It conserves energy so we can survive and thrive. Another way to understand it is the brain reliably does what the brain learned to do.

It keeps doing it because that is all it knows. Nothing else. It’s like putting a song on replay. It just plays over and over until someone changes the song playing. If you want to be different you need to change the song. Change the programming. Retrain your brain that you want it to do something else. whining about it, complaining, blaming, fretting, hating, getting sad over it won’t change it. You must change it.

All It Takes For Your Life To Change For The Best Is A Real Decision

Perhaps, if you get frustrated enough maybe you’ll exclaim, ‘Enough!’ Then you’ll decide to change. Until you decide to be different, you’ll be the same. Transformation is a choice, too. It’s like driving. You get in and drive, having decided where you will go. If you want to go somewhere else, you must change your mind about it and then change the direction. Get this? You make the decision and follow through.

Want things to change? Then YOU must change some things. The journey of a thousand miles begins first in your mind with the decision to go on the journey and take the first step. You journey then when you take that step and each one after it. You go first inside your head and then outside in the world. Want to be different. Transform yourself by the renewing of your mind. Then everything else can follow.

It won’t if you don’t make it follow. So, begin by taking charge of what you think. You can continue to think crappy thoughts, or you can begin to entertain healthy, positive, optimistic thoughts. Is it hard? Truth is, it is what it is. What you think it is will either make it hard or not. Get this? It’s up to you. You are the determining or deciding factor. If you think you can, you can. If you think you can’t, you can’t.

The Power Of A True Decision Is Released In A Moment

Either way thinking makes it so. You decide whatever it will be. Choose to suffer and you will suffer. You may not think you are making that choice but if you’re not deliberately choosing to think healthy, optimistic, positive thoughts of celebration and gratitude YOU are choosing to suffer. If you aren’t positive what is the alternative? Recognize and understand your responsibility in your transformation.

Remember, ‘if it’s to be it is up to me.’ Choose to be different and you can be different. It’s dog shit or diamonds always, every second. That is your choice. Which you choose and keep choosing determines what you get and keep getting. Want it to be different, you must make a different choice. You must think, feel, speak and do things differently. If you always do the same, you always get the same. Get it?

You stop deceiving yourself. You must stop believing bogus beliefs, self-help gurus and others who want you to think if you do enough and sacrifice enough you can get all those things that will make you feel important. Change doesn’t come from working hard to acquire things, power, money or fame. Change comes from changing yourself to be able to do the right things to get the things you want. Become it.

Decide To Live An Awesome Life And You Will

Become one for whom manifesting goodness is easy. How? Choose it. Choose to celebrate. Choose to feel gratitude. Express it. Choose to be optimistic. See the good in all. Choose to be positive. Choose to be loving, kind, compassionate. Be it to do it. This is how it works. Transform yourself by the renewing of your mind. This IS the day the lord has made. Rejoice and be glad in it. Be it. Do it. Have it.

Understand this and things change. Why? Because you are changing things the most natural, easy way things change. You are training your brain to make different choices automatically and reliably. Instead of suffering your brain automatically chooses a better way. You begin getting the results you want and not the ones you don’t. Get this and everything changes. Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes