What's on Your Mind?

     You know it's funny, I have all these thoughts in my head but sometimes I sit down to write something and I just can't seem to get it right. It's like I write 2 sentences, delete, 2 sentence, delete...etc. So then I try to think of a title for what I'm going to write and when I do, it gives me some kind of direction. All of a sudden, I'm FURIOUSLY 2 fingerin this keyboard! All my thoughts seem to come out right, at least to me. So here's what I got for you tonight.
     Like I told you in my last blog, I definitely believe in God. I believe that there has to be a higher power. Bear with me a minute, this isn't going to be me preachin, it's just the set up for my thought. When there is something that is weighing on my mind, I turn to God. I am not an overly religious person by any means, but I do say a prayer almost every night. I try to go to church to set a good example for my kids, but I don't believe that you HAVE to go to church to have a good relationship with God. After all, I listen to "Devil Music"! As a matter of fact, I just came up on some Motley Crue tickets, so I'll be shoutin at the devil Wednesday! Shit, I've seen Ozzy with and without Black Sabbath countless times, Slayer, White Zombie, Pantera, Marilyn Manson, every other bad influence, make you kill yourself, and sacrifice an animal band you can think of.
     I started teaching my kids the "Our Father" and also "Hail Mary". After we say those prayers, I start to say a prayer that my Mom taught me to say when I was little. Me and my younger Brother shared a room growing up and if you asked us to recite a prayer, we would probably say just about the same thing. It would DEFINITELY start the same... Dear God, thank you for this day...I basically just thank God for everything I have, I guess I don't really ask for much and if I do, it's something that means a whole lot to me. I happened to be talking to my Brother a couple of weeks ago while I was headed to a party and we got started talking about this. Now my brother believes in goals, direction, plans, and having a destination more than anyone I personally know. Now, I started writing a book awhile ago and what made me start writing it was a post on Facebook that said, "I am a happy endings kind of person". I believe that everything will work out and for me it always does! I told him what my kids said they were thankful for and proceeded to tell him that I attribute my outlook on life to the way that WE pray. He said he had read somewhere that when you pray you should pray what you are thankful for. I am not trying to say there is a right or a wrong way to pray, DEFINITELY not!!! I do however attribute that things work out for me in life the way I want because of the way I pray. In my opinion, God gives you free will and opportunity, what you do with it is your business. With all my heart I believe you can have anything you put your mind to. You do however, HAVE to have a destination or a goal. so I don't think that it's God blessing me with all this "good fortune". There are a lot more deserving people, I'm sure. I believe YOU make your own "good fortune". This is the thought that was most interesting to me though. Things always work out for me and all these opportunities arise in my life, but these are the SAME things I thank God for EVERY night. When I told my Brother that I thank God for all the opportunities in my life, he said, "Me too Jeff, word for word!" I think your mind is SO powerful and if you say something over and over and over, whether it be the form of a prayer or in the form of a goal, consciously or sub-consciously you work toward it and DO achieve it!
     All of these self help books and get rich books say the same things, just in a different way. The one thing they have in common though are goals and repetition. If you tell yourself over and over again that you don't deserve something in your life, you don't! Ultimately, consciously or sub-consciously you make that thought so. If you say things like that don't happen to me, they don't! It's not because you didn't or don't have the opportunity, it's because you didn't or don't take your chance on the opportunity to make it so. On the other hand, if you say, hey I deserve this...it ALWAYS seems to work out! Tell me I'm wrong and I'll holler BULLSHIT! If something is constantly on your mind, whether it be good or bad, I believe it WILL come to pass!!! So just what is it that's in the back of your mind? I know what's on mine! Go ahead and muuuurinate on that for a minute? Your Boy JC...and I'm out!