“Right or Wrong?” Blog #174
What right choices do I make for myself today?
Is it right to keep in place the “Five Second Rule?”
Where do I go to avoid “wrong way thinking”?
Every single minute of the day gives me thoughts, right or wrong? Do I just let anything
float into my mind? How am I inputting the “Five Second Rule” in my life daily? If I am
sitting on my phone, or social media and a thought enters my brain to stop wasting time
with “media” and work on something productive in my life, the Five Second Rule tells me to
start now - NOT let the time go by. Then I GO DO IT NOW, I do not overthink the action or
ignore the 5 SECOND RULE. That’s how IT WORKS!! It is wrong NOT to have “TIME LIMITS” for
what I DO. DOING THE RIGHT THINGS, WILL SATISFY ME from going the wrong way. Daily
Discipline gives me “time limits”. This rule teaches the importance of using my time wisely
and productively. Discipline is how I avoid going in the wrong direction. I am still in school,
I am enrolled in the “School of Life” and it’s now.
A long time ago a famous person said this, “I was sad to finally be done with school
because I thought I would not be learning anything important any more…”
It doesn’t matter how old I am, whether I work or retired, or just figuring out my life. What
matters is what’s important to me today? Can I get excited about life and choose right
over wrong starting with my thinking? It does me no good to think about a sad past, it’s a
waste of time. The right way for me to think, feel and live is positive. BE in the now. Some
people believe when they come to a stop sign on the road, that is the only moment of the
day when they let their mind relax a moment and wait! Wait for the red light to turn to
green. Let’s put that red light In our mind now. Many people are just plain cheerful, others
look for reasons to go the wrong way. DISCIPLINE MY DAY. HOW I wake up every morning
tells me I want to feel like a little child, ready for adventure. Someone might say, but I have
health issues, money problems, people problems. Not ready to do this? Time waits for no
one, the clock is ticking. I can go from wrong to right in a breath. A red light helps me to
stop and turn myself in the right direction - green light - “GO FOR IT”. Regardless of my
age, I can plan out something positive for me to look forward to. I love a good meal alone
and a good book to read. How calming, how peaceful, how “right for the moment”. I want
to learn more each day, it is right for me to READ. Weekly I find two, maybe three good
books about totally different areas of life. There is always the Library to go to. One book
may be a autobiography of someone famous. Another book may be about current affairs,
or how to stay healthy in our world, another book will be spiritual by nature, soothing,
uplifting and easy to digest. It’s fun to keep three books going, who knows what I like?
Then there’s the food I eat, maybe today I try food from a different country. There is
Chinese, Japanese, Italian, Mexican and I decide once a week to treat myself to a special
dish. I may call someone on the phone to see how they are doing or go out to lunch. Yet, if
I am alone, I can make the “right decision to do any new thing. As long as I am alive I must
be headed down the right road. The other day I heard a most beautiful poem about life.
The poem talked about my fears, my worries and being alone with myself. It made total
sense. There is only one “right road” to travel.
FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND
by: Mary Stevenson
“One night I dreamed a dream,
As I was walking along the beach with my Lord,
across the dark skies flashed scenes from my life.
For each scene I noticed two sets of footprints in the sand
one belonging to me and one belonging to my Lord.
After the last scene of my life flashed before me,
I looked back at the footprints in the sand.
I noticed at many times along the path of my life,
especially at the very lowest and saddest times,
there was only one set of footprints.
This really troubled me, so I asked the Lord about it,
“Lord you said once I decided to follow you,
you’d walk with me all the way.
But I noticed at the saddest and most troublesome times of my life,
there was only one set of footprints.
I don’t understand why when I needed you the most, You would leave me?”
HE whispered, “My precious child, I love you and will never leave you.
Never, ever during your trials and testing, when you saw only one set of footprints,
it was then that I carried you.”
Can I decide to go the right way today knowing HE is with me?
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