Maybe there are some mundane things that you’re doing that you need to change, such as going out to lunch with some new people and listening to their ideas and learning about their lives. Maybe you need to walk outside and look at the trees, the sky, and the beautiful flowers that God has created and think about something different. Sometimes you just need to change the atmosphere that you’re in. You need to rearrange your thoughts in simple ways so you can literally see what you have and then enjoy what you have. When you get down and discouraged about something, you need to push your thoughts around so your thoughts don’t push you around. The Bible tells us to constantly “be made new in the attitude of our mind” (Ephesians 4:23). We need to learn how to manage our thoughts and to be made new in our attitudes. Instead of looking at the richness in our life, all we’re seeing is the negative. We allow our circumstances to dictate our attitude, and life becomes a struggle. When we begin to focus on the negative, we see more negative and allow that negative perspective to rule over us. I like this room!” I was able to see the furniture from a new perspective and gained a fresh new attitude about that room.Įvery day, we choose the way we see our life, whether we will be grateful or negative about what we think is good and not good. When I finally finished, I stepped back and thought, “Wow! It really looks good this way. I wish I could just get rid of all this furniture and start over.” Over the next days, my attitude toward that room got more and more negative, almost like, “Ugh.” Then I realized I wouldn’t be getting new furniture any time soon, so I tried rearranging the furniture, scooting everything around. A while ago I found that when I walked into my living room, I’d think, “I really don’t like the way this room looks.
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