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How do you establish values?
- Step 1: Identify the times when you were happiest. …
- Step 2: Identify the times when you were most proud. …
- Step 3: Identify the times when you were most fulfilled and satisfied. …
- Step 4: Determine your top values, based on your experiences of happiness,
- Step 5: Prioritize your top values. …
- Step 6: Reaffirm your values.
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Watching: We Live in time.
Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield.
Life is about having a go.
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If we don’t try then nothing that we want to happen will happen. The mind is capable of changing fears into successes. That is a fact.
The mind and a good attitude are capable of changing negative feelings into positive feelings. We are often mentally stronger than we think. We are often more courageous than we think.
A test is the only way to find out what you are capable of. I don’t mean an education test, I mean a genuine life test. The test must have some form of struggles, apprehension, fears, wonders and worries, otherwise it is no test.
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Face that Unknown.
Take that risk.
Push some barriers.
Go the extra mile.
Test yourself, keep positive.
And please don’t let others who don’t follow your beliefs and heart-felt feelings talk you out of what is most important for your own well being.
We all have our own path.
All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
August 28, 2014.
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You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.
– William Wilberforce.
There is no worth in wishing that life was different,
the past is gone and what remains is simply the memories.
We all have our cross to bear, this being the struggles and pain in life that we have encountered at times. But we must bear them and we do have the strength to do this. Many have come before us, and many will follow, and they will go through struggles like we have. Create the right attitude towards challenges and they will become weaker in your mind, while you become stronger and more capable to meet challenges head on Ave do something about them. Please don’t fret over what you cannot change.
All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
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If a person respects you, your character, lifestyle and what you want for your own life then they will accept your, “No!”.
A person that loves us truly and respects us genuinely will accept our, “No!’ and will give us time to think about it, and will not force or pressure us, and if the final answer is still, “No!” then that is fine. Because a mature person knows that we must live our own life according to the rules and choices that we have decided are good for our own heart and soul.
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Sometimes we get an unexplained feeling, instinct, a gut feeling that an idea is not a good one, or we feel that we just don’t want to go with what others are demanding that we do, so we say, “No!’. If others demand a reason why we said, “No!” we cannot explain why because we are following a gut feeling and nothing solid and provable.
This is why they must trust and respect our feelings and live with the, “No!” that we gave them.
Sometimes we just cannot explain why we shouldn’t do something, but the feeling is strong and convincing, and because of that we refuse to do it. That is how we human beings are designed to operate.
There is no shame in following a gut feeling. Gut feelings have saved many a person from a miserable future, stay strong and have faith in yourself even under pressure. Trust Yourself, because you feel the negative feelings that others don’t, follow your truth , not theirs.
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Be true to yourself by standing firm with how you feel about your life and what direction that you want to go in. Remember “This is your life! Live it your way!”
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All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
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Good manners beget good manners. Qualities like integrity, honor and character⬠no matter how old you are⬠are qualities that never go out of style – Katie Couric.
It is the riches ‘within’, not the riches ‘we possess’, that makes for a happy life. – Author Unknown.
One night I dreamed I was walking along the beach with the Lord.
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Many scenes from my life flashed across the sky. In each scene I noticed footprints in the sand. Sometimes there were two sets of footprints, other times there were one set of footprints.
This bothered me because I noticed that during the low periods of my life, when I was suffering from anguish, sorrow or defeat, I could see only one set of footprints.
So I said to the Lord, “You promised me Lord, that if I followed you, you would walk with me always. But I have noticed that during the most trying periods of my life there have only been one set of footprints in the sand. Why, when I needed you most, you have not been there for me?”
God replied, “The times when you have seen only one set of footprints in the sand, is when I carried you.”
By Mary Stevenson.
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If you want to reach something special, something that you love, something that fills your soul with excitement, then you must do something that others are not doing.
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You must find, and then reach for your dream. Otherwise someone else will have what you won’t make an effort to get.
Having a dream, and making an effort go hand in hand in order for your happiness to become real.
All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
August 25, 2014.
Some people will not tolerate such emotional honesty in communication. They would rather defend their dishonesty on the grounds that it might hurt others. Therefore, having rationalized their phoniness into nobility, they settle for superficial relationships. – unknown author.
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When in doubt, tell the Truth. – Mark Twain.
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Remember always that you are not your mistakes, or your past, or something that you have done in the wrong way.
Those are moments or bad things brought on by lost thinking and being a victim. When we are a victim it is easy to go with flow and use victim-thinking. Victim-thinking holds us back and slows us down.
The past is gone and it cannot be changed, so no amount of anger, tears and frustrations, ranting and raving will change the past – it is gone, finished forever, accept that. Clear the path of wrongs that you have done by repenting and then getting right with those that you have wronged.
The present, yes thats the moment right now. This is something that you have control over. From here on you can bring yourself hope, a new chance and a new future.
From here on you can do what needs to be done to live a better life than the life that you use to live. This is up to you. This is your moment. Now, right now, today is your opportunity to ensure that the past will never come back, and you can move onward in a direction that you can now understand you are capable of heading in. You have the power, the faith, and the ability to go forward in whatever way that will bring you heart-felt-spiritual-peace.
In the past you didn’t have the confidence, you didn’t even know that you were wrong about some things or about how you lived in the past, society told you that what you were doing was acceptable and the cool thing to do. Everyone was doing it, and so were you. But now you know different. Now you know that you have control – in the past you were caught up in the flow of the crowd like the currents in a river, ever and onwards to unhappiness.
That is what “An Awakening” is, it is a realization that you do have a say. That you are not simply a work number for some company. You are not a statistic. You are capable. You have control, you always did but they didn’t want you to believe that because then you would break free and drive your own life and do your own thing, the thing that is called the call of the heart, this is what has been driving your soul, to your destiny.
You have got to do what you have got to do. And that is to do the best that you can do to define yourself and to break away from the chains that have been holding you down so long. This is your escape, your life, your future. Your future story isn’t written yet so make it a good one worth reading, take risks, and be pleased that you did your best, you put in your best effort. Do what you can to make your life count.
Remember (even if you are a bit scared or unused to running your own life) this moment that you read this is your moment. You own it. You live it. You can make changes with it or stay as you have always been. It is you who chooses. Be very wise with that choice and Don’t Let Yourself Down!
All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
August 24, 2013.
Some of the 2011 and 2010 Facebook statuses that I wrote. Images 2023. James Herriot.
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What man is there who can comprehend that wisdom by which God knows all things – St Augustine of Hippo.
Before God created the universe, He already had you in mind – Erwin W. Lutzer.
There is nothing around the corner that is beyond God’s view – J Charles Stern.
No masses of earth can block His vision as he looks over all. With one glance of His intelligence, He sees all that has been, that is, and that is to come. – Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius.
The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost when thinking about it – Blaise pascal.
Leviticus Chapter 11, verse 45: For I am the LORD that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
Psalm 34, verse 8: O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.
Psalm 36, verse 5: Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds.
The creator of the heart is still the owner of it – John Woolman.
Psalm 46, verse 1: God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Psalm 147, verse 5: Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.
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