It's just your thoughts!

Your thoughts create your life! You and I can have the exact same circumstances, but we can think different thoughts about those circumstances. And those different thoughts lead to different feelings, actions, and results. So anything that’s “wrong” in your life right now, is all because of the thoughts you are thinking. This is SUCH good news! We can change our thoughts! Therefore, we can change our results and feelings. How fantastic is that?

You’ve probably heard some version of the Serenity Prayer, “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.”

Here’s the wisdom to know the difference (seriously, here’s the secret): Our circumstances are the things outside of our control, these are the things we cannot change. Our circumstances include other people (our kids, our partners, our family members, our religious or political leaders, our neighbors). Outside of our control are their thoughts, words, and actions. Other circumstances include nature–weather, natural disasters, animals, and our genetics. That’s about it. We can influence others, but we cannot change others. What we can change is ourselves. That’s it. We can change our thinking, which changes our feelings and actions and how we show up in the world. All this leads to our results. We create our results. No one else does. SUCH GOOD NEWS!!

Our New Serenity Prayer goes like this instead, “God, grant me the serenity to accept that others can and will do what they want to do, courage to change myself, and the wisdom of awareness.”

“God, grant me the wisdom to know how to change myself, since I can’t change anything else.”

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