Transform in 2011

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Good Morning,

After last week's Insight I hope you all had time to reflect back on the prior year and look at what you accomplished, revived and survived. I also hope that you came up with new goals and aspirations for 2011. As I stated on last week this is the year I will transform myself, and I believe we can all use some transformation in our lives.

We can transform our minds:

• Spiritual Mindset
• Positive Thinking
  
• Open Mindset
• Creative Thoughts

Our thoughts are so important they frame our emotions and actions, so lets make sure to keep them clear and conscious. Learn to meditate and keep a close and intimate connection with God, he will definitely center you and cause your thinking to change for the better.

We can transform our surroundings:

• Change your atmosphere
• Re-examine the friends and relationships in your life
• Remove toxic and tainted people from your life
• Re-establish friendships that you miss and know should be a part of your inner circle
• Surround yourself with people that encourage and inspire you
• Learn to let go
  
• Make your house a home
• Get out and enjoy the world a little more
• Travel to one great destination you have been desiring
• Take in God's creation once in a while

Our surroundings are so key to how we journey through this life, so we have to make sure that only positive people are around us. About a year ago, I started using the word "inner circle" and this referred to the people closest to me. I had to make sure that these were people, who were honest, encouraging, inspiring, loving, and non-judgmental towards me. In essence, these are people who truly care about me and want to see me grow and excel on this journey. Also, your relationships should be healthy and loving, not hurtful and toxic. Your significant other should love, encourage, and inspire you in your imperfect state, because we are all imperfect people trying to live in an imperfect world being the best human beings we can.

We also have to start changing our actual surroundings, this can start in our homes, make your house a home a place you cannot wait to escape to when you have to deal with the craziness of the world. Also, I believe our travels in others parts of this world will help us change the atmosphere in our lives, Taylor and I plan to do a lot of travel in the future. We have already picked out our destinations and we got our passports so we are prepared to go when the opportunity is available.

We can transform habits:

• Stop being angry
• Stop being sad and depressed
• Stop being negative all the time find the positive in every situation
• Stop overeating
• Get up and exercise
• Break your routines in life

Habits are the hardest things to change in our lives, but once we do we become free from a bondage that has encased us. It's easier to smile and be happy than always angry, learn to like life in this moment and you will eventually learn to love it. Life is a journey and sometimes it can bring the darkest days, but even in those times we have to look for the positive and continue on the journey.

It's easy to eat at our problems and issues instead of dealing with them. I have been overweight for a decade now, and I have no excuse but laziness ( I used to to say it was because of having a baby, but Taylor is 11 now, can't use that one anymore). This is the year I become free from the horrible eating habits and lack of exercise, and I learn to love and take care of my body instead of abusing it.

Also, pay attention to what we watch on TV and what we read. Last night I purposely decided to watch Vh1 and was so troubled to see women degrading one another instead of encouraging and building one another up, and also pretending to be rich, because of their outfits and cars (Basketball Wives) and I was also troubled to see a star have her self set up on multiple dates in order to find her true love, because she desperately wants to have a baby (Chili) What a waste, and how does these shows inspire us. They do not,

The sad part here is that these people have a common factor and that is they are searching for love, not a romantic love in particular, just love. We have to remember this, God made us out of love, his love, so all we truly desire is to be loved, because we were made out of love. We want our parents to love us, our kids, our friends, our husbands and wives, our boyfriends and girlfriends, we are on a continuous search for this, and sometimes we do things that do not make sense while searching for it. Sorry this is my soapbox, but I have become so conscious of what I allow to filter my mind, and my daughters'.

So as I end today remember that there are so many things that we can transform, but I thought I would share the ones that matter to me at the moment.

Transformation=Freedom

Be InCouraged
Mechell