Quick video I shot this morning about living happy! Just a few thoughts about Living Happy! Happiness is really not all that difficult thing to experience. Here are three things that we can do to live happy:
1. Live In Relationship! You were created by a Creator, Who has an amazing plan and purpose for your life. Get this, believe this and live this and it will make an incredible difference in your life.
2. Live With Gratitude! We have so much to be thankful for. Just by taking time to think about it – changes our lives. Think about all you have to be grateful for on a regular basis.
3. Live Your Choice! You decide for you. You cannot do it for me and I cannot do it for you. Happiness is a choice that each of us make for ourselves. Stop playing the game and start enjoying all that the Creator has put around you.
I am one week into my evolving plan to live a higher life. I thought I would take just a moment to share a big idea that seems to have come through from what I am learning every day. The big idea for this week is: You Have A Choice!
You get to make a choice about how you are going to respond to life. You can respond in a negative or positive way – it is totally up to you about how you respond. Once you get focused on the reality of this truth, there are some things that you can do, to unleash its power in your moment by moment living.
Here are three ideas worth considering:
1.) Take Negatives Out! There are people and places that you do not need to be around and that you do not need around you. This will pull you down, before you pull it up, so take some time to step away, so that you can get yourself strong and then when you have yourself in a good place and are ready, you can try to help others. Remember: What you allow to come into your life has influence. The question that should determine if it is allowed in or not is simply this: Is this adding more than it’s taking away. If the answer is no, then you know the tough decision you have to make.
Use your five senses to apply this: Don’t allow your sight to focus on anything that is not adding value. Don’t allow your hearing to listen to anything that is not adding value. Don’t allow your touch to feel anything that is not adding value. Don’t allow yourself to taste to cause you to eat anything that is not adding value. Don’t allow your smell to lead you into a bad indulgence that is not adding value.
2.) Put Positives In! You will find that when you start to get rid of negatives, that you will need to replace them with something. If we fail to replace them with good and productive positives, then other negatives will find a way to fill the void.
Look for positive relationships that build you and allow you to build others. Listen to encouraging and upbeat stuff. Get in touch with your feelings and learn to allow them to provide direction support for where you need to go and what you need to do. Taste that life is good and take some time to stop and smell the roses, that you most of the time rush by without even realizing that they are there.
3.) Build A System! None of this happens by accident, so make sure that you are taking a little time everyday to build a system. Get a journal and pen and begin to record what you are learning and the insights that this different way of living is providing. Take time to write down at least five new things that you are thankful for everyday. Make plans for your dreams to become reality by putting pen to paper.
Your Creator has amazing things in store for you – don’t miss it! Thanks so much for taking time to let me share with you and I would love it, if you would share back with me. Leave me a comment or send me an email. I hope you have a great weekend and until the next time we meet – live blessed!
Do you ever have something the Spirit is teaching you and you get it, but you just can’t seem to communicate it? It’s in your heart and in your head, but you just can’t seem to find the words?
The Lord has been teaching me something pretty incredible lately. It’s one of those things that I have known what the Bible has to say for a long time. I could even quote the verse and I may have even gotten the gist of it, but now God is taking me deeper and I still don’t totally have it, but I am beginning to get it after a lot of lessons.
We often work so hard to try to make something obvious in the physical and the harder we work, the more hard work we have to do. It’s almost as if it is a never-ending battle. But in the spiritual, you don’t have to make anything obvious, because the Spirit does all the hard work for you. In the Spirit, the obvious is obvious to those in the Spirit!
When you are working hard in the physical to try to make something obvious, you often can’t see and have no understanding of the spiritual, because you are so focused on the physical. You don’t want to see and don’t want to understand the spiritual, because it would reveal how wrong and what a waste of time and energy your life has been in the physical.
I know this is all a little complex, but I believe it is a big part of what the Spirit has been trying to teach me over the past several months and what the Spirit was talking about when He said in 1 Corinthians 2:14 “14 But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised.”
Sometimes, I find myself trying to explain spiritual things to people and I think to myself, “this should be obvious to them”, but I am assuming they are spiritual, because they say they are spiritual, but if they are really as spiritual as they say they are, then I would not have to explain it, because the Spirit would and is making it clear and obvious. Many times in my own life, I have missed the spiritually obvious, because I was stuck in the physical.
So many of our conversations and discussions are a total waste of time and energy because we are wasting physical energy, while we should be living powerful spiritual lives or we are wasting spiritual energy on people who are stuck and not budging in the physical. Jesus said in Matthew 7:6 “Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.”
Now does this mean that we become so heavenly minded that we don’t do any earthly good? Of course not. We will do earthly/physical good, if we are heavenly/spiritual minded, because it just comes natural in a spiritual kinda way. Galatians 5:16 puts it simply: “So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.”
I do not totally have all of this, but the Spirit is giving me new insight almost everyday and this is a very cool thing, because I have found that physically my arms and hands have come down by my side and I am experiencing a peace that words cannot explain, because I am finally beginning to understand what Jesus was saying when He told His disciples in Matthew 10:14 “Whoever does not receive you, nor heed your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake the dust off your feet.” It’s not your job to convince, but if you are convinced then you will find that living in the Spirit is so much better than anything physical!
Michael Joe Harvell 