Stop and Smell the Coffee | Episode # 149 | Encore Episode # 10

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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Hello, this is Gabriella on the scene today with Talk
Network Radio.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
We have a real dread for you.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Just around the corner, and that is Empowered Living with
Jeff Bird. Jeff is the owner of Jeffrey for Coaching,
and he will be coming to you weekly to teach
you more about empowered living. Now let's join Jeff already
in the studio.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Hello and welcome. This is Jeff Bird, Jeffrey Berg Coaching,
and this is Empowered Living. The title of our discussion
today is stop and Smell the Coffee. Now. I've chose
that for a couple of reasons. Number one, I love coffee,
and to me, coffee is not just about the experience

(01:18):
of drinking coffee. It's so much more that goes into
the coffee, and that makes it so enjoyable, and it's
the aroma of it. If you've ever been in the
grocery store somewhere where somebody's grinding some fresh coffee and
just immediately just the richness and the aroma, and it's warm,
and it's comforting, and it smells just so wonderful and
it just grabs your attention if you're like me. But

(01:39):
also I love getting coffee from other places, and sometimes
I'll stop and think, I'm like, wow, I'm drinking this
cup of coffee that came from beans that grew from
the soil in rowand Java, Jamaica, Guatemala, Columbia, so many
places around the world, and it gives me a sense

(01:59):
of connection. Actually with some of those places. It's like, wow,
something that grew from that soil is now part of me.
Therefore I'm part of that country in a way. So
it's a neat experience. And of course coffee is so
widely popular these days, but it's again not just drinking it,
but for me, I like to buy these coffees and
then grind them at home because it fills the kitchen

(02:21):
with just a beautiful fragrance. And if I ever come
into the kitchen and my wife's in there and she's
grinding up coffee, and so I'm like, oh, wow, thank
you so much. What a wonderful aroma and a way
to be greeted first thing in the morning. But now
not everybody feels that way. And I was in Costco
recently and I was over on the coffee island. I
was squeezing the bags and smelling the aroma from them.

(02:43):
And just enjoying myself. And there was a man in
I presume his wife, who came up and she was
wanting to get some coffee, some whole being coffee to grind,
and he was against it because it was going to
take him a couple of extra minutes to grind this
coffee and brew it. And he told her very brusquely
that a time is money. You could tell he just

(03:05):
didn't want to have anything to do with grinding that coffee,
and he or appreciating that experience. And I wanted to
say some of it, but I did, and I just
kept smelling the coffee, and they grabbed something and went away.
But a few minutes later, while I was still smelling coffee,
they came back, and it seemed like he had softened
a little bit. I don't know what was said while
they were gone, but it seemed like he had softened

(03:25):
a little bit to the idea of maybe considering some
hole being coffee and grinding it himself. And I made
the comment to him. They passed close to me, and
I said, once you start grinding your own coffee, you
can never go back. Said, it takes a couple of
extra minutes, you can still use a carrig if you
want to to brew it, or you can get a
French press. That's my preferred way. But even the few

(03:47):
extra minutes that it takes are just nice to relax
and to rest and to enjoy the process of that.
So often we're in such a hurry that we don't
enjoy the process of anything. We're just it's such a
rush to get to the goal, so we can finally,
hopefully relax. Sometimes we have to stop for a minute,
and because we all need a break, We all need

(04:11):
a break from others, and we all need a break
from ourselves in some ways that we're going to talk
about today, But the first thing I want to talk
about is just the fact that we all need a break.
We all need to stop and smell the coffee or
whatever else it is we do that we associate with
taking a break. We none of us are Superman, are superwoman,

(04:33):
none of us are going to save the world by
five pm this afternoon. And we need to be recreated,
as it were. It's what the word recreation comes from.
We need to have downtime. We cannot constantly give no
soil can be constantly farmed and still produce good fruit.
And it's just like us. We cannot be constantly having

(04:55):
things on our mind, constantly caring for others, constantly listening
to others, have to have time to unwind. Chuck Swindall
once said, you must come apart before you come apart,
and hopefully we come apart before we come apart. Sometimes
we find out a little too late, when we're about
on the verge of a breakdown that hey, yeah, should

(05:16):
have taken some downtime there, you know, or when our
attitude starts flaring up, or we're just unduly harsh with others.
I want to look at the scripture, very familiar scripture
from Psalm twenty three, and people love this psalm. A
lot of people. That's the only time they read the Bible,
that's when they read Psalm twenty three, or maybe they
have one opened on the mantelpiece or somewhere in their

(05:36):
house to this passage. And of course it's a shepherd's psalm.
David himself was a shepherd. That was part of what
prepared him for leadership and for being the King of Israel.
Didn't see it at the time, but the lessons he
learned as a shepherd never left him. And one of
the things that he said of God was that he
saw God as the shepherd, and he said, he makes

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me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside
quiet waters. He restores my soul's in Psalm twenty three.
But it's interesting. Sheep are naturally very restless, and they
need the green pastures, they need the quiet waters. They need,
as it were, to have their souls restored. But they're

(06:20):
so restless that it can be very difficult for them
to achieve that. Philip Keller, who is a shepherd, a
modern day shepherd, he writes in his book A Shepherd,
looks at Psalm twenty three, and he says of the sheep,
owing to their timidity, they refuse to lie down unless
they are free of all fear. Because of the social

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behavior within a flock, sheep will not lie down unless
they are free from friction with others of their kind.
If tormented by flies or parasites, sheep will not lie down.
Only when free of these pests can they relax. Lastly,
sheep will not lie down as long as they feel
in need of finding food. They must be free from hunger.

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He wraps up, and he says, it is significant that
to be at rest there must be a definite sense
of freedom from fear, tension, aggravations, and hunger. The unique
aspect of the picture is that it is only the
shepherd himself who can provide release from these anxieties. It

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all depends upon the diligence of the owner whether or
not his flock is free of disturbing influences. Now so
interesting that sheep will not get what they need unless
they have a shepherd who is tending for them very well.
It's said of the verse that he makes me lie
down in green pastures. That the emphasis is on the

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verb makes, because a sheep often won't do it, as
we've just discussed on its own. The shepherd has to
take that sheep by the ears and force its head down,
and then the rest of the body follows so that
it will actually lie down in the green past When
it says he leads me beside still waters, often the
streams can be a little bit turbulent. What the shepherd

(08:07):
will do is take large rocks and put them in
the stream to create a quiet pool, and then he
leads the sheep to that quiet pool. And as the
shepherd provides these things, and the sheep becomes quieted. When
we put ourselves in that place, we can say and
see how our soul is restored. We are soul. We
don't get restored, we don't get recreated, we don't get replenished.

(08:31):
In the midst of the hustle and bustle, in the
midst of our worries are other people's worries that they
bring to us. We have to have a still place.
And it's interesting to note that God leads but never
drives his sheep. You see the cowboys in the old
Westerns and in some movies out driving the cattle. You
don't drive sheep that way. God doesn't drive, it says,

(08:52):
he leads me to the still water. He doesn't drive me.
He's not whipping me, he's not forcing me. He's creating
a beautiful, full place for me, a quiet place where
I can rest, and where we can rest and relax.
And then he leads us to that place. He prepares
the field, he prepares the quiet stream, and then he
leads us to it. Now, sometimes in our lives we

(09:15):
may not even recognize our need for the rest. I
was talking to a friend years ago, and we were
talking about our feelings about things and spiritual life, and
he told me, he said, you know, he said, I've
come to find out that sometimes I'll think that I've
got some problem going on on the inset, maybe I've
got some spiritual issue, maybe I've got some psychological issue,

(09:37):
he said. But what I've come to realize is that
sometimes I'm just hired. What I need isn't to try
to deal with anything else. It's just to come away
and to get some rest. And so often that's the case.
I heard a talk show radio years ago and a
man was interviewing a counselor, and he asked the counselor,

(09:59):
he said, well, what do you do when you take
people in for a session? He's counselor responding, he said, well,
the first thing that I do is I get him
to write down everything that they're concerned about, and they'll
give me these great, big long lists. He said, okay,
so well then what do you do? He said, Well,
the next thing I do is I find out how
much they're sleeping a night, and I increase it by
half an hour per night each week until I get

(10:21):
them up to nine and a half hours of sleep
per night, and then I bring them back into my
office and we set down and we look at that
original sheet of concerns that they listed, and I asked them,
which of these are still concerns for you? He said,
And typically they will cross off about ninety percent of
their list, and then we have the list. The ten

(10:42):
percent that remains are the list that really needs to
be addressed, because ninety percent of their concerns came about
because they were exhausted. They were just tired. And when
we're tired, everything gets on our nerves. Everything is an issue,
everything's bigger than it should be. So so often what
we really need is that rest. Now, the other thing

(11:04):
that we need. We all need a place of unconditional love,
a place where we can utterly be ourselves as we are,
with no fear of judgment, just knowing that we can
come and be accepted. Even if we've got many issues
that we need to work on. We'll get to those.
But I can come, and I can rest, and I
can be accepted right now, right where I'm at, just

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like I am. And Solomon wrote in a beautiful small
book of the Bible called the Song of Solomon or
the Song of Songs, he said of God. He brought
me to his banqueting table, and his banner over me
was love. The think of the banqueting table, I picture
like a medieval luxuriously decorated with candles and torches, just

(11:50):
this hall, filled with decadent food and fine gold goblets.
And you can kind of picture what I'm talking about.
King Arthur's hall. I picture something like that. That's the
banqueting table. There is no lack for anything. I'm in
a secure place. I'm in a safe place. All the
needs are met and deliciously at that, and his banner

(12:13):
over me. You know, we set up banners to declare
what's going on. You know, we set them up at events.
We set them up to tell other people who we are.
We put them up to describe an event. At marathons,
they put up banners, oh okay, we're having the marathon today.
Or other events, we put up the banners to show
what's going on. And when God sets up his banner
over us, he said, love is what's going on. It's

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my love for you. It's my desire to quiet you,
and my love to provide for you. To bring you
the banquet as it were, maybe not a physical banquet
of food, but a banquet of some sort. Maybe it's
in just a quiet evening watching a sunset. One of
my favorite little stickers to send my wife and messenger
on Facebook is just a little sunset picture. It's a

(12:55):
man and a woman just setting on a bench watching
a sunset. And that that's what to me is rest.
And my favorite times that we ever spend together are
times when there's nothing on our mind. We're not dealing
with any issues, we're not trying to accomplish anything, even
little things. We're just being still and being together and
being at rest. And we all need that. We need

(13:15):
time to be with our thoughts and hearts and to
listen to God's voice to us. I want to give
you a few examples in the life of Jesus. Now,
whether or not you believe as I do, that Jesus
is the exact representation of God's heart and gave himself
to restore us too, God's heart, It's okay even if
you don't agree with me on that. This is still

(13:37):
a great illustration. One passage in Mark one point thirty
five says that in the early morning, while it was
still dark, Jesus got up left the house and went
away to a secluded place and was praying there. Those
early morning hours when we get up in the world
still is quiet. Before everybody's gotten up and gotten going

(13:59):
and rushing off to whatever they're rushing off to, it's quiet.
I used to deliver newspapers when I was a teenager,
and I loved being up in those early mornings, especially
when it was clear and you could see all the
stars and there was nobody else out. I would just walker.
I was back in the days when paper boys walked
some of that routes. I would walk around just folding
and throwing those papers and just with my thoughts. Just quiet,

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but that kind of place. Jesus did that. Another passage
in Luke five sixteen says, but Jesus himself would often
slip away to the wilderness and pray. And that word
wilderness is significant, especially in a Hebrew and the Book
of Hoseiah. There's a passage where God tells his people,
I will lead you into the wilderness, and I will

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speak kindly to you, and I will win you back
with words of love. Wilderness in Hebrew is the word midbar,
and it means to speak in the wilderness. We can
hear better what's being spoken, because in the wilderness there
are no people, There are no things outside of what's
growing in the wilderness or what we take there, and

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there are no outward distractions, and that quietness, that lack
of distractions and other people, that enables us to hear
better what we need to hear or what God's wanting
to say to us. Another passage in Luke six' twelve
says it was at this, time speaking Of jesus, again
that he went off to the mountain to, pray and
he spent the whole night in prayer To, god didn't

(15:25):
tell anybody, else didn't take anybody with, him just went
off to spend the night with the only one who
knew his, heart who knew what his plans, were who
knew what he needed to. Do and, interestingly the next
day he went out and called the Twelve. Disciples during
that time of, prayer he got connected enough with His
father that he knew what he should, do and when
he saw the right, people he knew what connections he

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needed to. Make so many people just all over the,
board we just because we don't, know we haven't spent
that quiet time to find out what is it THAT
i really need to. Do where is it THAT i
really need to? Focus and so we focus on everything
and make nothing a real. Priority refreshment is often best
had away from. Others and this leads us to the second,

(16:09):
point which is the first one was we need a.
Break the second is we need a break from. Others,
right you can probably relate to. This it doesn't with
all of the concerns going on in our world and
all the problems that other people bring to. Us you
know this is especially true in. Leadership leadership isn't so
much about telling other people what to. Do leadership is
often so much about listening to other people and trying

(16:32):
to help them and coach them towards towards a better.
Place and we listen to so, much and it's very
easy to get to a place where just everybody's bringing
their stuff to. Us but we find there are a
few who we can take our stuff, to and so
the quietness is. Essential jesus said In mark six point thirty.
One he said to his, disciples come away by yourselves

(16:54):
to a secluded place and rest a, While for there
were many people coming and, going and they didn't have
time to. Eat the needs of others can keep us
from caring for. Ourselves and if you're a caregiving type,
personality you're in a caregiving, role you'll know. That it's
like people can see you coming and they'll bring their
needs to you and expect you to meet. Them it's

(17:15):
true in leadership roles. Too the needs of others can
keep us from caring for. Ourselves but we have to
remember that we cannot give what we do not. Have,
exhaustion being, scatterbrained being, hungry or having unresolved emotional issues
of our, own those don't enable us to help others,
well and they can make us a burden rather than

(17:37):
the benefit or the blessing that we would like to
be to other. People caring for ourselves is the first
step in loving. Others so if you're a caregiver type
person who's just always doing for other, people you've got
to realize that once you get burnout and drag, down
you're not going to be much good to. People ongoing
self maintenance and refreshment and, recreation letting that ground lie

(18:01):
fallow as it, were so that it can produce, better
higher quality for. It it's the same for, us and
we all need to realize that, however tuned, in we
are wanting to be the answer to every problem we hear,
about are taking care of. Others we have to take
that time away. Now another point under coming apart from
other people is that those who were worried and upset

(18:22):
about many things resent and pressure those who are RESTful
and tuned in and. Listening it's not the other way.
Around there's a story that we read about In luke chapter,
ten and it said that As jesus and his disciples
were on their, way he came to a village where
a woman Named martha opened her home to. Him she

(18:45):
had a sister Called, mary who sat at The lord's
feet listening to what he. Said But martha was distracted
by all the preparations that had to be. Made she
came to him and, Asked, lord don't you care that
my sister has left me to do the work by.
Myself tell her to help Me Martha. Martha The lord,
answered you are worried and upset about many, things but

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few things are needed or indeed only. One mary has
chosen what is, better and it will not be taken
away from. Her luke ten thirty eight through forty. Two
now just think about. That if you're a person who
tends to be somewhat, RESTful, reflective quiet and as a

(19:31):
good listener and it's taking, in, boy you will drive
the people around you who are anxious and worried about
many things. Crazy Those martha types who always have to be,
putson always have to be doing. Something they tend to
resent and complain about the more quiet. People but you
don't find it that it works in. Reverse the quiet
people they're often not going out and complaining about the

(19:53):
super busy. People they choose not to be that, way
but they tend to not go and complain about. Them you,
see it Was martha who complained To ge About mary
because she thought she wasn't helping. Enough but here's the
beautiful thing is That mary got divine affirmation and protection
From god. Himself if you choose to believe. That When,
martha her, sister started complaining To, jesus he, Said mary

(20:17):
has chosen what is better and it will not be
taken from. Her he protected. Her he values that quiet,
space that place of, receiving that place of just being
there with the heart with him or just quietly by
yourself in that place that helps restore you so even
contact with those we love still requires, energy concentration and

(20:41):
focus on where they. Are just because we love people
doesn't mean we can be around them indefinitely without getting worn.
Out because when we're around other, people even once we
care deeply, for we often can't get in touch with
our own thoughts while the other people are constantly putting
their thoughts in our. Minds and if you happen to

(21:02):
have people you love who are really, talkative people who
always have something on their, mind you have to come
apart because after a while you just won't be able
to focus, anymore and then you risk coming across as
being offensive because you're not. Listening sometimes we don't. Listen
it may be because we're not very carrying, people or
it may be because other people are talking all the

(21:22):
time and we've just our listener has worn out and
we have to come. Across you. Know sometimes we've often
been in a noisy place and we, SAY i can't
hear myself. Think, well that's true of noisy, environments but
it's also true of being around other people too, long
and we're constantly having conversations about our, thoughts what's on their.

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Mind we need to come aside so we can get,
focused so we can, hear like we said about the,
wilderness that quiet place where we can actually hear what's
going on in our own hearts and in our own
minds and get. Refocused, lastly number, three sometimes we need
a break from. Ourselves it's not just other people we
need a break, from it's what's going on in our

(22:07):
own minds and. Hearts we're told to be transformed by
the renewing of our. Mind sometimes we need a break
from our own. Thinking we need new thoughts and different
thoughts that can help transform us into the people we
want to. Become we're told In philippians chapter four that, finally,
brothers whatever is, true whatever is, honorable whatever is, right

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whatever is, pure whatever is, lovely whatever is a good,
repute if there is any excellence and anything worthy of,
praise dwell on these, things and The god Of peace
will be with. You let our hearts we have to
learn to let our hearts just focus on these things

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to be, saturated to marinate in good. Things there's so
much negative stuff we can focus. On for some, people
it seems like that it's their favorite pastime is to
focus on the negative things or to see a problem
with every, solution but we have to deliberately choose the,
beautiful like this list, said the, honorable the, right the,
pure the. Lovely to choose the lovely things to focus

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on there's something, good like Mister rogers used to. Say
he would tell when he was a young boy and
he would see some tragedy ON, tv and his mother taught,
him whenever you see something, tragic there will always be.
Helpers focus on the. Helpers we've got to learn to
focus our minds on the good things and to rest
there and to be quiet in. There so a couple

(23:37):
of couple of questions to ask when it comes to
ourselves and needing a break from, ourselves is we can
there Tend we all tend to have triggers and buttons
that can be, pushed and for some people seems like
the buttons are always being. Pushed everything pushes a. Button
but how about asking, ourselves what if that didn't bother?
Me that thing that we're complaining, about that we're focused

(23:59):
on that? Negative what if that didn't bother? You what
if you decided that that wasn't going to bother. You you
aren't going to try to change, it but you were
going to decide, that, hey that's not going to affect,
me that's not going to steal my focus and steal
my energy and steal my feelings and my. Thinking i'm
going to choose to focus on. Another i'm going to
choose to not let that bother. Me you have the.
Power every time we get bothered by, something we made

(24:20):
a choice to let it bother. Us another thing that
happens to people that we need a break from Is
i've known people who just worked so hard and they
were just so driven and so involved with tedious effort
that then when they did get a, break instead of
taking the time down to renew, themselves they felt, like,

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HEY i deserve to have a good, time and they
put just as much effort and energy into trying to
have a good. Time so now they were doubly. Tired
and then by the time they had to go were
so hagung ho about trying to have a good time
on the. Weekend at the time they went back to
work On, monday they were really wiped. Out they had
nothing left to. Kid so we need to watch out
for that. Two, Okay so we're going to take a

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break for a, minute and Then i'll be back and
we'll wrap up with some. Applications jeff will be.

Speaker 1 (25:07):
Back shortly to wrap up today's. Message this Is gabriela
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Speaker 2 (26:32):
Message so for the application questions to today's, SESSION i
want to ask you what does it take to get
you to slow? Down do you do you have to
hit a wall or do something, bad have to, happen
or have some. Issue it reminds. ME i worked with
a friend and she told me one time that she

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had a dream and she was just on this Curby
mountain road and her car was going faster and faster and,
faster and she just couldn't slow it, down and she
ended up in the dream running off the road and
wrecking the car just so she could. Stop seems like
that's what it takes for some of. Us we just
have to hit a wall or come to a crisis
because we're so exhausted before we'll. Stop but if you
know what it takes to get you to slow, down

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how can you identify this sooner before the crisis so
that you can avoid exhaustion and be able to take
the time you need for yourself before you get to a.
Crisis Point question number two is where is your? Banquet
table of? LOVE i talked about the verse earlier From
song Of solomon That god had. Said he brought me

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to his banqueting. Table his banner over me was. Love
where is your banquet of? Love where are? You who
are you? With or what are you thinking? About when
you feel the most unconditional?

Speaker 1 (27:48):
Love?

Speaker 2 (27:49):
Now how can you enhance that on a regular basis
making more time deliberately prioritizing that in your, schedule putting
it on your, calendar so that you can spend more
time in your situation when you are at your banquet of,
love in that unconditional love space where you're. Accepted BECAUSE
i guarantee, you the more accepted you feel as you,

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are the more accepting you will be of others where they,
are and the better you'll be able to help see
clearly to lead them to a better. Place number, Three
where do you go to be restored or to think
or to? Pray do you have a favorite? Spot maybe
you're like you have a favorite, chair or maybe there's

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A i've had a friend that just every once a
week they went out to the beach and spent the
morning on the. BEACH i love to go to the
beach in the evenings with my wife and watch the.
Sunsets but do you have a favorite place maybe it's
a walk in the, woods or a favorite bench or
a garden or a. Park do you have a favorite
spot where you go to be restored or to think
or to. Pray how soon can you prioritize getting, there

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not just waiting until you have a few free moments
and it just happens to open up and then you go.
There but how soon can you prioritize getting there on
a regular? Basis, also what things aren't really urgent or
important that can either wait or that you can eliminate
from your schedule in order to create more time for

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what restores. You there's a little exercise we do in.
Coaching sometimes it's called a fifteen minute, miracle and it's
just keeping a log every day from six am to
ten pm of what you do every fifteen. Minutes if
you were to do, that what would you find in
your daily agenda that either isn't urgent or isn't important

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and that you could eliminate or that you could put
on the back burner that can, wait that doesn't have
to be done right, now so that you can make
some time for. You, also what thoughts are you deliberately
choosing to put in your mind on a daily. Basis
Leif hetlin says that what we, behold we, become And

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heaven help. You if all you have is what you
see ON tv on the evening, news what we, behold we,
become what do you? Do excuse? Me what are you
doing on a daily basis to put, beautiful, true noble
thoughts into your? Mind even small. Things doesn't have to be,
global world changing, things just small. Kindnesses hold someone who

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held the door for, you or that you held the
door for little. Things little kindness is what kind of
thoughts about those things that you put it into your?
Mind we control our thoughts uh and even for Every
it's called the law of polarity says that if you
can picture something, negative you can picture its polar, opposite
the positive of that. Thought if you think things may

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go poorly in some, scenario you can choose to think
the exact opposite scenario and to believe that and work towards.
It so we have to understand what thoughts derail, us
what derails us from focusing on good? Things can we
recognize those issues that they bring up in? Us you,
know what is it that gets me sidetracked and gets
me thinking? Negatively what fear is? It what issue is

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it within? Me what is it gets me? Derol can
we recognize them early, on as soon as, possible when
those thoughts start, coming so that they don't just carry us.
Away we don't want to get carried away as the
saying goes by some negative way of thinking or feeling or.
Believing we want to recognize those things and replace them
with the, good the, positive and the truth as early
on as. Possible nobody can choose your, thoughts but you

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circumstances cannot dictate your. Thoughts you could be in the
worst circumstance in the world and choose good thinking and
choose to create even if you can't do it, externally
internally and environment where you can, rest where you can
rest your, heart because we do have a shepherd who
cares for, us who provides us with good, things and
who's banner over us as. Love thank you so much

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for tuning. IN i hope that this has been as
much of a benefit and a blessing to you as
it has been to, me AND i look forward to
seeing you next. Time god bless. You