Be the Change no. 5

“Your beliefs are your actions. What you say is just what you think.”

Be the Change.

Ten more doesn’t seem like a lot BUT ten more over a bunch of exercises is a lot. Today I am a little bit out of breath. I haven’t really felt like this since I got started with the whole morning routine of working out and coming over here to tap away. I think it is a good thing BUT I am a bit winded. So, this might be brief today.

I spend a lot of time in mentor mode. I mentor a lot because I care about how we move forward as a people. And if you are in contact with me during my life, then you are part of my community. And I feel an obligation to mentor my community.

I mentor a lot about choices and change. I believe that the choices we make reveal a lot more about who we are than the things we say and post. Matt called it “word vomit” the other day. And he isn’t far off on that metaphor. A lot of us are just regurgitating thoughts from somewhere else. That is kind of how thoughts work. Our ideas do not just magically occur to us. Our thoughts are the work of all the other thoughts we pull into our brain and then its ability to put order to those thoughts and experiences.

My design for a better greenhouse comes from this type of brain activity. I am slowly working on replacing the internal skeleton of aluminum in my greenhouses with a more secure and sturdy wooden frame. And as I have thought about the greenhouse bones and taken measurements and looked around at gardening groups and looked around at my own gardening needs, the idea of how to build the replacement frame and a plan for a bigger and better model keeps my plans changing and growing.

I did not come up with the idea for the greenhouse. The plan was already there. What I did was take the existing plan and make it my own. And in order for any thought to be meaningful to our lives, we have to make them our own. They can’t be what mom told you, what dad told you, what your teacher told you, what the news told you, what the writer told you, what the prophets told you, what God told you . . . They can’t just be the words of someone else. They have to become your words. And the only way that happens is by putting the words into action.

So if that is getting up every morning and choosing to get healthy, then you make it part of you. If that is getting up every morning and meditating and visualizing, then you make it a part of you. If that is getting up every morning and drinking coffee to get through your morning, then you make it a part of you. If that is filling that coffee with a bunch of sugar and fat, then you make it a part of you. Your choices tell the story of what is important to you. So, start acting like your choices today matter. Because the choices you make today impact the choices you make going forward. What are you going to choose?

#ThinkBetter #BeBetter #NoGodsNoMasters #MyBodyMyChoice #MakeYourselfGreatAgain #BeTheChange