Influence People

by Queenie1

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Every man, woman and child who lives on this earth can have an influence for good or for bad. Who we are or who we want to be makes all the difference. We are who we make ourselves to be.
If we as people think higher, good, positive, lofty thoughts and put off the bad, lower thoughts from our being we will accomplish more good and bless the lives of many people if we choose too. We will say good things and then we will do good things. Our positive choices and our good influence will radiate to all the people whom we meet. They will see us as the true person we truly are. Our inner beauty will show and radiate to all who truly know us, meet us or associate with us.
The same is true for the bad influences, bad or low thoughts that people have. We will have the same effects but in a bad way creating a negative influence. We can also radiate that bad, low ideals or influence upon others lives. All we have to do is look at some of the famous criminals in jail today. They started on the same path or journey in life that you and I did. They also made many choices over their lifetime which led them to where they are today. It was an accumulation of bad or low thoughts which took them down their road to where they are now.
We all have choices in this life of how we want to live and which way we want to go. We have to make good, right choices continually so that our good choices start taking us in the direction we want to go. We need to make the necessary changes in our lives so that we can end up where we want to be. Today is the first day of the rest of your life so you make the choice!

Believe - Positive Achievements

By Queenie1

"And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, if ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you." Matthew 17:30

As I was driving down the road I told my daughters this scripture and my youngest at the time listened. When were near a tree she said, "Move," and the tree never moved. Being young she didn’t grasp the full measure of this scripture. I tried to explain to her that a mustard seed was very, very small and if we had the faith of this tiny see we could do anything that all things are possible to those who believe. We need to believe and if we can believe than we can achieve what we are trying to do. I explained that our thoughts would make us or break us. If we just put our thought right on positive achievements we can accomplish what we want to in our lives.If we doubt ourselves or don’t believe in what we want to accomplish we won’t do it. Our self-talk will talk us out of what we’re trying to do or accomplish. If we listen to those negative thoughts in the back of our minds we will fail to accomplish anything in this life. We directly effect our future for good or for bad by the thoughts that we entertain in our own minds. We become whom we think we are and what we think about the most.

Only we can alter our own conditions and destiny by changing our thought patterns to a higher level of belief and by putting more positive thoughts into our minds. If we can and will do this there isn’t anything that we can’t accomplish at this time or in this place that we are at right now. We hold our futures in our thoughts and in our minds.

Resource Box or Author Bio Information:Jeannette McQueen-Nobbs or Queenie1 has written some articles and was published. She has also written an ebook.Her blogs are:http://petsweecare.blogspot.com/; http://ancestrynme.blogspot.com/; http://queenie1-wisdomthoughts.blogspot.com/; http://kitchenfun-queenie1.blogspot.com/; http://health4me-queenie1.blogspot.com/

A Bible! A Bible!

By Queenie1

Are you reading your scriptures? I pondered this question when I was preparing to speak with my clergyman.

I thought about it but then I thought I have so many responsibilities at home, work and church. I thought it’s so hard to read a whole chapter a day every day but I realized that I was only making excuses for myself. I justified in my own mind that I had done some good things to help others and that I didn’t really need to read my scriptures.

Inside my heart felt heavy and I felt this deep longing for something that was missing in my life. I needed something to pick me up to face my daily challenges. I wasn’t quite sure what it was that I needed.

At church over the next several months as I was talking with different friends they had told me how daily scripture reading had changed their lives. They seemed to have a lot more peace and contentment than I did. They also seemed to feel the spirit of the Lord a lot more than I did.

When I went home I started to ponder and think about the changes I seen in my friends lives from daily scripture study. I wondered if it would be good for me too. I wondered if daily scripture study would bring me the positive changes in my life that I so desperately needed! I decided to set a goal and to start reading my scriptures daily. At first it was hard and very difficult but I tried to set a time to read the scriptures daily.

As time has passed I have read my scriptures cover to cover. I have realized that reading the scriptures daily has brought into my life a great peace. My life seems to have more purpose and I seem to be a lot happier than I was before.

Reading the scriptures daily has also given me more knowledge and understanding than I could get from anywhere else. The scriptures are full of life stories and how people chose to live their lives, how they dealt with their problems they encountered. I discovered in the scriptures that the problems the people encountered daily are really not so much different than what I encounter today thousands of years later. Our world is different than in the Bible times but people and their relationships to one another are really the same. There’s a lot to learn and understand from the past and peoples choices that can help us in our lives today here and now.

I look forward to more knowledge and understanding as I continue to read and study my scriptures again and again. Imagine what I will have learned after a life time pursuit of studying the scriptures!

Scripture Treasures - Romans 4:21

by Queenie1

Romans 4:21

And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.




When one realizes that their potential to accomplish something they wish to achieve or some goal that they want to accomplish then that person is able to do it.

It's a matter of state over mind or mind over matter. What you can believe than you can achieve? We first have to believe that we can do it and than we will do it!

Did You Should On Yourself Today?

By Gloria Arenson
Published October 30, 2008
Personal Development
Rating: Unrated
Gloria Arenson
Gloria Arenson, MFT, treats stress, anxiety, trauma, phobias, and compulsions. She has authored How to Stop Playing the Weighting Game, A Substance Called Food, Born To Spend, Five Simple Steps to Emotional Healing, Freedom At Your Fingertips and Procrastination Nation. http://www.GloriaArenson.comView all articles by Gloria Arenson
I should get my car washed. I should pay my bills. I should eat less. I shouldn't sleep so late on the weekend. Our lives are filled with shoulds. Shoulds keep us on the straight and narrow path to goodness. What are shoulds and where did they come from? Of course we can trace them back to the original holy set, the Ten Commandments, but I am guessing that shoulds arose long before that.A should is created when a group of people agree about how the world is or might be. But this may differ from culture to culture and century to century. Democrats have different shoulds about the world than Republicans. Believers and non-believers differ about the shoulds that label us good or bad. The shoulds of your family and friends may be diametrically opposed to those of your neighbor.Shoulds lead to procrastination! Putting things off is often the result of your conflict with a should. That is because shoulds are inflicted on us from outside. From our earliest years we are told what a good boy or girl should or should not do to gain approval from parent, teacher, family, community, and the world. We are not given the opportunity to challenge these instructions. When we do we may land up going our own way and marching to our own drummer, but might also be carrying a load of guilt or shame about breaking away from what is expected.Who says I should wash my car, pay my bills, or eat less junk food? You may say that you do, but where did the original rule come from, and who laid it on you? Take a moment to think about some of the things you are procrastinating doing right now. Pick one.Pretend that you are standing in front of your local ATM about to make a withdrawal. This time you are going to withdraw some information. Pretend that
you are typing in this question instead of the amount of money: How young was I when I decided that I would be a bad person if I didn't ___? (Fill in the thing you are putting off) Take a deep breath and as you let it out a number will pop into your head.As you know your age you may automatically know who told you it was wrong or bad. If not, do the ATM routine again asking for that information. Remember what was happening back then and how you felt when you accepted that should. Take a moment to acknowledge all the guilt or shame you have felt throughout your life each time you resisted. How often have you struggled with this and other shoulds handed down from generation to generation?Please don't think I am telling you to drop all shoulds and rebel against everything. The result would create chaos and harm. Children need shoulds to help them conform to the expectations of their culture and to keep them safe. Yet, once we are grownups we can assess the rules and decide which ones fit our beliefs and which don't.Grownups can choose which expectations they want or choose to follow. Try this. Go back to the should you chose above. Say it out loud to yourself, "I should do my laundry." How do you feel? Is there tension in your stomach or throat? Do you feel ashamed of yourself for being lazy? Think about this for a moment. Do you want to do your laundry? If you don't then are you willing to take the consequences; after all you are an adult and responsible for your actions? Make a decision and say either "I choose to do my laundry," or "I choose to not do my laundry." Does that feel different when you say it out loud?Most people find that when they trade in their shoulds for choose to or choose not to, they get rid of a load of guilt and shame. See if you can eliminate the words should, shouldn't, must, and have to from your life this week and notice what happens.

In Order To Achieve, You First Have To Believe!

By Kristi Ambrose
Published October 31, 2008
Personal Development
Rating: Unrated
Kristi Ambrose
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When you become a true believer in not only yourself but of the workings around you, it's always going to lead you where you want to go. Accepting something, is not the same thing as believing. In fact, the word believe by definition means; To have faith, confidence; to believe in a person. As the great philosopher F.W. Robertson said, "To believe is to be happy, to doubt is to be wretched. To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief is power. Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing." This somewhat coincides with Andrew Carnegie's quote; "Anything in life worth having is worth working for." And it's true, believing in yourself, and believing you will get the good things you deserve in life, can sometimes be very hard. But if you truly believe it, and you think its worth it, then it's also worth the work it takes to achieve it!But how exactly does someone start the process? It takes some pretty simple and yet pretty hard steps. Now, I know some of you might feel "odd" doing the things I'm about to tell you to do, but I can tell you that this works, and not only does it work but it also builds your confidence up, which then builds your belief up in yourself, which then leads to achieving all those things you want to achieve! You're going to feel goofy at first but it's just you and yourself so without further ado; Several times a day look into a mirror, look directly at your face, in your eyes and out loud say these words:In the infinity of life where I am, all is perfect, whole and complete. I support myself, and life supports me. I see evidence of the law working all around me, and in every area of my life.
I reinforce that which I learned to enjoy its ways. My day begins with gratitude and joy. I look forward with enthusiasm to the adventures of the day, knowing that in my life, "all is good." I love who I am, and all that I do. I am the living, loving, joyous expression of life. All is well in my world.Now if this sounds familiar to you, great! This is a positive affirmation by one of my favorite authors; Louise Hay. In her book titled "You Can Heal Your Life," there are several positive affirmations such as the one above between the chapters of the book. The one above, is one of 6 I say every morning before I do anything else, and every night before I go to bed. So yes, this does work because I know from experience. These positive affirmations are incredibly important, and it's also nice because you don't have to make up your own affirmations if you are uncomfortable with it, there are millions out there! You can also use these pre-written affirmations as your own and add or subtract your own stuff, its like a positive thinking script!I love these things, I find on days when I miss doing these for whatever my excuse is, I end up not feeling as good as if I would if I had done them. Its sort of like the domino effect. One thing happens that's negative, then you think about it too much, and oh hey here comes another negative thing and another and so on and so forth. But when I start my day out with affirmations, it's a mental reminder to myself or almost like a sugar pill, it gives me the courage to be positive and happy and joyous all day long. And this too, can work for you as well! Just gotta put a little "elbow grease" into it so to speak! Check out some affirmations online, print the ones out you like, and seriously do these for a month and you will see for yourself, I'm not delusional! This stuff really does work!