If you watch much news, you will find enough bad news to really stress you out. There are people in this world that will do most anything against anybody for absolutely no reason at all. Why? I think it is because some people are just absolutely evil. Others have been erroneously led to believe that what they do is the correct thing to do. Some may be stressed; stress can cause folks to do some really bad things.
How do we get stressed? We allow the weight of this world to rest on our inadequate shoulders. We allow everyone else to dictate our happiness. We try to keep up with those who have more than us. We try to measure up to someone else's standard. Do you see the common denominator? We'll get to that in a moment...
Today's word is a quote by William James that says, "The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another."
The reason we get so stressed out sometimes is because we choose to think the wrong things, take on the wrong things, then, do the wrong things. We choose to think all the negative thoughts, to perform all the negative actions, and to suffer all the negative consequences. If we had chosen differently, though, how might it have turned out?
Don't let stress wear you down. We all have those stressful moments, those stressful times, those stressful situations, but let's not dwell there. Let's choose to change out thoughts and reduce our stress.
Be Blessed,
Mickey T
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