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Let us get honest with ourselves and decide if we are truly feeling joy and happiness, and if it is easy, or hard, to be kind. If we are struggling, let us do the hard things and work on ourselves so that we can truly feel joy, love, and kindness.

You get to choose who you are every morning. Do you look for whats good in your day today, or are you going to find all that is wrong and complain? This is a choice that we should remind ourselves every single day before we start the day. When we are intentional, we can choose to be the person that looks for the good and shares it.

We don’t always have someone that reminds us of this. I want to remind you, and let you know that you matter always, no matter what, to God.

When we let go of our ego, become more open, and truly listen, our perspective, and our life can truly change.

It is easy as the new year wears off, and we get back into life, to get too comfortable with those things we want to say no to. Let’s get back into paying attention and breaking these patterns.

We are a few weeks into the new year, and this is when resolutions and new habits start getting derailed by life, distractions, and many times we start sabotaging ourselves. It is time to break the pattern and take back ownership of our habits and goals.

Let us choose good every day and decide what we want more of this year, and what we want less of. Quote: Instructions for Living a Life:Pay Attention.Be Astonished.Tell About It.-Mary Oliver

It is ok to feel hope as we go through heartache. This is life. We feel like we need permission. We don’t, but I give you this permission, because I feel that hope is how we heal, and how we keep our eyes up during the heartache. So let us keep looking for joy and light in our hardest seasons. Verse: Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. Romans 5:3-5

In order to truly feel the joy that comes each day, we have to slow down and live through the simple things, by speaking it, sharing it, being an example of noticing it, and giving this to our kids.

It is our choice where we put our time and energy. Even when we have to do something we don’t want to, we can put our energy into a bad attitude and complaining, or trying to find some good in the situation. Be more intentional about what you give life to. It matters.

Today’s guest, Lindsey Wilson is a mindset and high-performance mindset coach, a former professional athlete, and the founder of Positive Performance and The Mindset Coach Academy. As a collegiate and professional athlete, Lindsey utilized mindset coaching tools from a young age. This allowed her to experience tremendous success as a basketball player at Iowa State University, get drafted in the WNBA, and play overseas for 8 seasons. However, despite her many accolades, her proudest result was being described as ‘relentless’ more than once by opposing coaches. Something she attributes to her mindset training. But she also had a front-row seat to so many of her peers struggling with performance simply because they didn’t know how to train their mindset. Because of this huge need, she launched her company in the mid-2000s with a simple mission: to get mindset training tools to as many athletes as possible. Her mission continues now by providing mindset coaching tools to athletes, teams, and other high performers with her cutting-edge online courses and workshops. Her company works to expand access by training other mindset coaches in her craft. Her company offers the world’s first live dual certification for aspiring mindset coaches through their 4 monthly Mindset Coach Academy certification program. Lindsey is also a mom to three young girls and practices the same mindset training tools she used as a professional athlete, now as an entrepreneur and mom. Resources:Positive Performance TrainingMindset Coach Academy Podcast

Our days are filled with so many things pulling on us, weighing on us, and asking for our response, or our decision. Learn to take your time, and go to the one who has our path already known for us. Quote: Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. Jeremiah 29:12

Quoted from Lysa TerKeurst’s Instagram… “A prayer for the girl who’s tired of trying to please everyone in her life. Dear God, I have been giving so much of my energy trying to stay “good” with people, and it has left me exhausted, depleted, and constantly feeling taken advantage of. Lord, help me determine what I should say yes to and what I should say no to. And as I draw necessary boundaries, I ask for your peace to guard my heart and mind through difficult decisions and conversations. I ask today that you remind me of how much you love me so I’m less tempted to turn to others to fill me up with things that I really should be turning to you for, and only you can sustain the type of giving that a desperate soul longs for. In Jesus’ name, Amen.” I am the Lord, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me? Jeremiah 32:27 **Resources: **Good Boundaries and Good-byes by Lysa TerKeurstThe Best Yes by Lysa TerKeurst

There are so many instances each day where I believe God is trying to teach us to become more patient and accepting in the waiting, to help grow us spiritually for greater strength and acceptance in the big challenges in life. Quote: "And God would not waste her time waiting. He was planning. He was preparing. And her heart grew stronger in every prayer." @laurenfortenberrywrites on Instagram Verse: But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me. Micah 7:7

Choose to believe, even when things seem dark and uncertain. Choose to believe in your loved ones, even on hard days. Resources: Lauren Daigle: You Say

These are small choices that we can shift, or change, and make all the difference in how we feel, our relationships, and how our day goes. Evaluate your choices this week, and decide where you can choose differently.

There are so many benefits of a morning routine. There are simple choices you can make starting now for your morning to feel better, and change the rest of your day. Decide that you want to control your day, rather than your day controlling you. Resources: Daily Intentions Journal

It is easy to become complacent in things that matter to us, like our health, relationships, marriage, time with God, or our goals and dreams. The world can easily pull us away from what matters. Take time this week to pause and evaluate where your time and energy are going. Resources: Daily Intentions Journal Quote: God can not be the source of your strength if the world is the source of your standards.

Many times these continual distractions are helping us to react better, and learn how to not be derailed by them, so that we can grow and mature spiritually.

Let us pay attention to what we are filling up with this week.