If you can change your thinking, you can change your life. How you think is the number one key to determining your life. Your perspective will control whether or not you will be happy and content. Your outlook will establish if you will be wealthy and if you will have a healthy body. Your mindset will determine if you will have a life of success and leave a legacy of significance. It is critical that you hear me on this. Your thinking controls your life. That is easy to say, but do we really believe it? Do we work to change our thinking? Do we study, read, listen to coaching, and daily make the necessary efforts to direct and manage our thoughts? If you don’t work to create a success mindset, your life will be controlled by a “get by” or a negative mindset. You are in control. You decide. You choose what your life will become.

There’s a lot of pushing and shoving in the game of life, and there are a lot of wounds that result from conflict. You cannot move through life, with your eyes on a goal, and avoid contact. To have a successful life, you must have the mindset that the conflicts you encounter can have results that are beneficial, rather than damaging.

Human interaction and contact can quickly escalate to conflict, and so much trouble is born in those moments when people lose control. We see this too often. In sports, teams lose control and the benches are cleared for an all-out brawl. Then players get ejected. On the highway, angry drivers lose control and exhibit road rage. Then accidents happen. In relationships one person loses control and abuse occurs. Then someone gets hurt. At this point, normal contact has exceeded proper boundaries. These are situations that need intervention, and in some cases, significant help. When conflict goes too far, things are said and done that will be regretted for a lifetime.

Over the past three months, we have been focused on MINDSET. 

• How you think will determine what you do.
• What you do will determine how you live.
• How you live determines who you are.

Are you a person of greatness? Are you a success? Do you have significance? Your journey all starts with how you think. Your mindset will either make you or break you.

Many of you have heard the question, “What would you do if you knew you could not fail?” But have you ever really thought that through? What would you do? What dream do you have that you would ‘go for’ if you absolutely knew that you would make it?

Now, let’s talk about what is holding you back. As a coach, I have to get to the root of the problem. The issue here is not that you can’t, it’s that you won’t. Is that right? And why won’t you try? Why won’t you step out? I have found that the most common reason across the board is simply fear - fear of the unknown, fear of failure, fear of what people will say, or fear of being hurt.

How can you have a successful, fulfilled life? You must have successful years and before that, thriving months made up of winning weeks. Ultimately, the way to have a wonderful life is to have fulfilled days. How do you have those days?

Three words – SEIZE THE DAY!

Dr. Dave Martin’s new three-day plan provides three ways to own your day and gives practical tips to build a successful, fulfilled life. You can download Dr. Dave’s featured Bible Plan on the YouVersion Bible app.

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Have you noticed the trend in deconstructed food lately? It is…interesting, to say the least! (Google ‘deconstructed food,’ if you have missed out so far.) Some of you may find this idea rather fun, but I must say that if I order a burger or sushi or a dessert, I’d like it to come fully constructed, completely put together, and ready to eat!

What does it mean to ‘deconstruct’ something, anyway? Basically, it is to take it apart and look at the pieces and parts that make up the whole. So, while I enjoy an apple pie, all put together and topped with ice cream, sometimes I do find it enlightening to look at the various ingredients or the components of an idea. Today, I’d like to look at SUCCESS and let’s deconstruct this idea for a few minutes. When we do, I believe we will have a better understanding of what makes up success and we will know what success looks like to us individually.