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This One Decision Can Transform Your Life Instantly!

“If you are my reader you’re possibly becoming aware if you want something you must create the desire and passion for it. You must create the energy to get it. You create the momentum by what you do and how you do it. You desire, believe, act and persist. Go for it!

It all begins with a decision. One decision has the power to completely  transform your life and circumstances. Most people never make a powerful decision to create their best life. They settle. They believe what they were taught growing up. Do you?

They follow what they were taught, but they were never taught to develop the mindset and behaviors for success. They were taught, go to school, get a job, get married, have kids and retire with a pension. Not bad if that is what you want, except in today’s world.

You Are Today Where Your Thoughts And Decision Brought You

If you want the best life ever you must create it. You must think yourself successful. The right mindset can make you rich. Just any mindset will keep you broke and in debt. You must decide what you want. Success is only a decision away. Choose! You must choose!

Then you must be willing to do what it takes to create the life you want to enjoy. If you don’t make an active, conscious decision, then you already made one to not succeed. If you want to change your life,  then you must change what you are doing. Decide today! Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

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Are You Or Aren’t You Running The Show?

“You can do whatever you  decide you can do. After all, who is in charge of you? Who is in charge of your mind? Do you run it or does it run you? Hopefully, you are the one in charge. Otherwise, you are a victim.  Don’t you think it is time you become a champion instead?

Decide. Choose what you want. Then set out to make that happen. If you want to be the boss of your mind then do what it takes to become boss of your mind. Stop wallowing! Make a decision. Then, make a plan, based on accurate info, to make that happen.

Then, believe you can do it and persist until you get it done. It’s a process. If you begin working on it you’ll make progress bit by bit. Soon, the day will come when you can say, ‘I am captain of my ship. I am master of my fate.’ Never think of what you can’t do,  Decide what you want, what is possible, and then work to achieve that. Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

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What To Do When Friends Disappoint And Hurt You

“It sucks when friends, or family, let you down or betray you. It sucks and it hurts. Yet, it can be a good thing, although this is a lesson, not everyone will appreciate, understand or agree with. Be glad the light has been shown on the person and their behaviors. Yes, be glad!

You’re aware now. You feel the sting. If you’ re able, don’t react from past conditioning. If you don’t react out of anger, hatred or vengeance you’ve an amazing opportunity.  You’ve an opportunity, to cut loose, let go, and rid yourself of it. Even if you don’t like it.

We clean our house. We weed our garden. Sometimes, we have toxic relationships we’d be better off without. This may be the time to let the person go. Send them off on their own, but do it with peace, love, blessing and forgiveness. You may bristle at the thought of this.

Action Is The Proper Fruit Of Knowledge – Skill Comes Of Doing

Don’t wish bad on them. Remember, what you put out comes back to you. To wish them injury of any kind is to aim that same injury at yourself. If you frown into the mirror the mirror person frowns back. Rise above. This is an opportunity to get free. Stop wanting revenge.

Release them. Forgive them. Forgive yourself. Let them go. Turn the entire situation over to a higher power, the universe, your subconscious, whatever you choose to believe or call it. Cast your burden on the divine mind so you can go free. This is important!

When you weed your garden you don’t hang onto the weeds. You don’t even hate the weeds. You simply remove them. This person or persons, this situation, was in your life for you to benefit from, even if the benefit comes from a ‘hard’ lesson. Get it? This IS for you.

The More We Do The More We Become Capable Of Doing

You have the opportunity to learn to release, and let go of, resentment to persons and events, past and present. You have the opportunity to get free. Speak and act only to bless, heal, prosper, inspire, motivate and transform. Stop running negative narratives.

Keep your sight and your attitude aimed high. Take the higher road. Release. Stop hanging on. Recognize the blessing in the lesson of the pain. Learn the lesson and let go of the hurt. Forgive yourself and the person. Move forward. What you focus on is what you get! Let go.

It is simple but not necessarily easy. You may have to let go again and again. You may have to release resentments over and over until you actually drop them. You may have to keep affirming the good and the blessing a great number of times. DO IT! Let go and let god! Do it!

Let Go And Let God – Make Letting Go A Positive Habit – Let Go

Focus on the good things in life. Allow and receive good to come to you. This is HOW you will transform. Going through this will make other things easier to move through when encountered. If you avoid it, or do what you always done, you’ll keep you perpetuating it.

You will live over and over again the same painful, victim-centered resentment cycles. Stop pushing it away. Stop living from old programs. Start living free. Do something different. Take positive actions. Think positively! Allow yourself to be filled with love.

Until you actually do it, you may think this is hogwash. I know I have. Do it and you will discover the difference!  You will transform. Life is for living well. Life is for abundance, joy, health, loving relationships and all the best. Life is too short to perpetuate problems.

What You Think About Most Frequently You Become – Be Positive

Still, problems, when properly understood enable us to move forward and live a wonderful life. Live with gratitude. This lesson helps you learn to transform yourself. When you are able to consider everything a blessing, when you are able to let go and get free, everything changes. This is WHY I keep saying ,celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

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Did You Know You Have This Choice?

“You may not realize it but you do have choices. You have choices about where you put your attention. You have a choice about what you focus on, good or bad, positive or negative. It may not feel like it because most of us are governed by deeply engrained habits.

We do the same thing again and again. You know, people say, ‘same shit. Different day.’ Even though we operate mostly from unawareness, and longstanding habits, we can consciously choose to focus and use our minds differently. We can do this. You can do this.

It may seem difficult at first, like turning an enormous ship using a tiny rudder, but we can do it. We can overcome all that inertia and make very positive and important changes. In fact, it gets easier and easier the more you do it. Doing nothing, you will remain the same.

Stop Doing What You Always Did – Start Getting Great Results

Change even 1% daily and in a year that is 365% change! Imagine that! How would your life improve and you be different if you learned to design your mind, focus on the positive, and begin getting the results you have always wanted to get? Pretty amazing, I bet.

I implore you, learn to manage your mindset! Grab hold of your attitude and become unstoppable. You can, you know? Even if you never have previously, you can learn to do new things that benefit you in small ways and in great ways. You simply must begin for all of it to begin. Make the decision to learn to do new things that benefit you and help you create your best life ever. Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

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Thinking Its A Problem Makes It A Problem Part 2

“Remember, when you say, ‘this is a problem’, it is! You declare a situation troublesome. How bad you say it is, makes it so. When you say, ‘I have a problem’, you are affirming that you have a problem.  The reality is there is a situation, or a person, you describe as bad.

The reality is, it is neither good nor bad. It is nothing until you declare it as something. Prior to human presence on the planet, all sorts of things happened. No one here to judge them. Your judgment biases the situation. It colors or flavors it. It makes it worse than it is.

How you represent it, how you think, feel and speak about it makes it so. It is whatever you think and declare it to be. If you want to change it, change how you think, feel and speak about it. Reframe it into an opportunity to discover new things. Shrink it down in size!

Today You Are Where Your Previous Thoughts Brought You 

Get it? It is whatever it is. Your resistance to it makes it what you label it. It is whatever it is! You lock it in as a difficulty when you declare it one. Otherwise, it really is an opportunity to discover your resourcefulness. You can find your strength and learn something.

If you want different results, change what is going on inside you. Change your thinking. Stop labeling it as bad. Call it a situation. You have an opportunity to explore options you might not otherwise have . You have a learning opportunity. You don’t need to lie about it.

You don’t deceive yourself. You notice it and reframe it. You look for the good within it and accentuate the good. You emphasize your strengths, not your weaknesses. You explore your ability to rise to the occasion, think positive and not let things take you down.

Tomorrow You Will Be Where Today’s Thoughts Take You

If you’re so inclined you can call it a blessing. Everything this side of death can be considered a blessing. You’re alive. That is better than not being alive. You go through experiences, ups and downs, as an adventurer. Act like an adventurer. They like challenges. Do you?

It’s our desire for everything to be ‘perfect’ that screws us up when things go awry. We don’t want anything to come along and upset the status quo. We want things the same. We want them comfortable. Nothing wrong in that but things change. Flexibility is desirable.

Do you understand it is within your control, and ability, to call it whatever you want to call it that serves you and supports you. Some people call it a ‘big’ issue. It really is not unless you decide it is. A ‘big issue’ is another representation of it as a problem, Change this!

You Can’t Escape Your Thoughts – What You Focus On Expands

Instead of making a mountain out of a molehill, make the mountain a molehill! Shrink down the size. Make it manageable in your mind. When you do you’re more resourceful. You can more readily, easily and swiftly resolve it when it isn’t looming or overwhelming.

Change what you are doing and you DO get different results. If you always think the way you always thought you keep getting what you always got. It’s all about how you represent it. How you think, feel and speak about it that makes it so. Get it? So reframe it.

Learn how to reframe it. Call it something different. It is whatever you think and declare it to be. If you want to things to change, change how you think and feel and speak about things. Reframe it into an opportunity to discover new things. Shrink it down in size.

Thoughts Become Things – Thinking Makes It So

Want different results, change what is going on inside! I repeat. If you want your life to change you must change things in your life.  Doing the same thing repeatedly isn’t getting you the results you want. Find the good. Accentuate the positive. Make it so!

Be grateful you are alive! Be grateful you are able to experience ALL situations. Look at them as a blessing. When you are able to do this everything in your life transforms for the better. What you seek you will find. Want a problem? You can have one. Want an incredible life? Then celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

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What You Choose Makes A Difference

“What we believe shapes our reality. What we believe determines, to great extent, how well we navigate the world. If we believe something to be difficult, it most always is. If we believe it easy, we will have an easier time with things than thinking it is hard.

Get it? Therefore, I choose to believe it is easy to change my thoughts. I choose to believe it is easy to feel wonderful and delighted. I choose to feel blessed and find opportunity even in hardship. I choose to believe it is easy to find good everywhere.

I believe in making things simple and easy whenever and wherever possible. I can easily change a thought or belief from negative to positive. I always can choose how I want to think about things. So I choose to feel, think and be the best! All is good. Celebrate everything! Rex Sikes

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If You Play The Victim Your Choices Are Limited!

“Things happen. Shit happens, or at least things happen that we don’t want. Perhaps, they are all good, we just don’t think so. That is a possibility. BUT, let’s assume bad things happen. How do you get the upper hand and make things better? Do you want to know?

Two choices:  You are a victim of circumstance and feel that things happen to you. Sometimes you are lucky, sometimes not. OR you are the victor. You determine what happens. You learn and benefit from everything. Challenges present opportunities. Even bad is good.

If you play the victim role your choices are limited. Whether or not you are actually responsible, if you act as if you are, you have more choices available to you, as a victor. That is an important distinction between a winning mindset and one that is not.

If You Think You Can Or You Think You Can’t You Are Right

Apart from that, let’s say no, you have no responsibility for life’s obstacles, but you either react as you always have from conditioned responses, or you learn how to respond differently and more resourcefully. Either you’re a habitual robot or you’re a chooser!

This is a potential choice you have. Whether you are able to see this or not, whether you are ready to choose or not is part of where you are in life’s journey. You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make the horse drink. When ready you can. If not, you won’t.

It is our choice whether we make the choice or not. How we view and interact with the world is due mostly, if not all, to the mental maps we have in our head. If we view the world as a friendly place or not. Whether we think we are resourceful or not. It’s our maps.

What You Think And Talk About Most You Bring About 

Whether things happen to us or whether they are partly, or all, our creation is due to what we think it is. More and more we are learning how much we actually create our reality. AND EVEN IF WE DIDN’T or DON’T how we respond or react is the important factor! Get it?

If you want to respond better and have a better life THERE ARE important things you can do and believe that make an incredible difference. You need to learn how to manage your mindset and make your life wonderful. This is a choice you have right now you can make! Stop delaying and start acting positively in your own behalf. Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

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You May Not Think You Can Do This But You Absolutely Can!

“You know what your problem is? It is just a thought but you don’t think you can change. You have been thinking the same old BS for so long you don’t realize you have options available you can choose from. You do! You make the decision and your life can transform!

You don’t have to be limited by your past thinking. You can be free of it. You actually can choose your thoughts. Choose carefully! Why settle for living with limitations and repeated problems and issues, when you can change things and make them better?  Why do you?

You can constantly have new thoughts, discoveries and insights when you become willing to do things in new ways. Shift from the old, the negative, the limiting thinking patterns, to positive thoughts and powerful new possibilities. Choose what you want to believe.

You Are Today Where Your Thinking Has Brought You

Your thinking either supports you or it does not. You are not your thinking. YOU are the one who notices the thoughts. You are the chooser. You are the observer. You just don’t have the experience of realizing that, yet. You haven’t realized you have been choosing.

Plus, many times your thinking runs on automatic. It is an old habit. If you are willing to change it, you can. It is only a thought and it CAN be changed! It is time to update your self-talk and inner pictures. Decide to change your limitations and negative thinking to the positive. Look for what you are grateful for. Emphasize the good. Let go of the not so good. You will change powerfully when you learn to celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

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Turn Everest Into A Mole Hill

“Some people never start a task because it appears insurmountable. They make it bigger in their minds. Those who accomplished Everest made it smaller in their minds. They made it doable. They didn’t do it overnight. It took time, energy and effort but step by step they did it.

If you face overwhelm from tasks you must complete, chunk them down into manageable ‘bite sizes’ and do them one by one. Prioritize that which is most important to accomplish and work at it. If you were sculpting a marble statue you’d do it by chiseling bit by bit.

‘It doesn’t matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.’ Confucius. That says it all. If you are determined to get to your destination you will, provided you keep going. Step by step the journey of 1000 miles is accomplished. Drop by drop the tub fills.

If You Really Want To Do It You Will Find Or Create A Way

You can do anything you put your mind to. You must be willing to start. If it is too big, make it smaller. Take charge and get things done. Then you will feel good for having accomplished what you wanted, instead of feeling bad because it looms over you uncompleted.

It doesn’t matter how long it takes as long as you do not quit. You complete the race by crossing the finish line. Persist. You will get to your destination as long as you keep moving toward it. Detours,  sightseeing spots, and distractions don’t matter. Just keep going!

Seek to feel good most of the time. That means doing those things that make you feel good. Get things done. Clear your plate. Express your thankfulness. Look for and find all the things you can be grateful for. Seek and you shall find. Celebrating everything!” Rex Sikes

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Are You Preparing Yourself For Success Or Failure?

“What are you preparing for? Success of failure? Plenty or lack? Faith or doubt? Courage or fear? Whatever you prepare for is what you ultimately get. Your attention, your thoughts, your feelings, your actions, your avoiding, brings you whatever you prepare for.

Every moment you have a choice. Will you choose faith or doubt? Prosperity or lack? Courage or fear? Success or failure? Happiness or sadness? Positivity or negativity. It is always only your choice. Choose now and become free or remain in bondage?

Choose anger or peace, joy or sorrow, winning or losing? Prepare for what you want. Stop preparing and putting energy into what you do not want. Eliminate that which you want to avoid. Withdraw your energy. Put your energy into happiness, health, love and success. Put your energy into gratitude and inspiration. Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

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