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Don’t stop believing in yourself. It’s easy to lose hope from experiencing a variety of daunting issues and challenges in these uncertain times. Again, continue to reflect on your vision, along with your goals. Which will enable your momentum of forwarding progress even when it seems gargantuan? With the intent of not allowing others with less vision than yours to infiltrate your progress of achieving your daily goals.

The discipline of preparing your mind daily still requires us to pay attention to details. The details in doing the little things well, like for instance. “ making a conscious effort first thing in the morning to update our mind with both fresh positive and health data. And also filtering our thoughts while maneuvering our day from toxic information. By re-engaging your list of goals, this helps you formulate a sound plan of action. A plan that’s broken down into small action steps, which in return can produce the fruit of consistency. Again, be reminded to run your own race. Here at full joy studios, we’re a true believer that each human is placed on this earth for something profound and unique that’s only specified to that individual's skill set.

Albert Einstein once said, “Nothing happens until something moves.”

Stop viewing your disappointments, heartbreaks, failures, or bad news as losses. Instead see them for what they truly are: character and leadership development. Especially at this present time when we’re steering towards uncertainty, hopelessness, job loss and the list could go on and on. That's where both our forward-thinking and an unwavering faith foundation that God will take care of us.

Power word:

1 Corinthians 9:24

Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.

Run your race of life within your own lane, with the passion and excitement that you’ll win if you're not too occupied observing some else's life's journey.

Few questions for you to think about.

1. Are you a great listener? 

2. Are you purposeful in asking questions? 

3. Are you genuinely intrigued to hear what others have to say when engaged in a conversation?

One of my mentors once said. Whoever is asking the questions is in command of the conversation! 

By asking more questions it instantly forces us to listen attentively, which in result transfers a genuine vibe of compassion to the receiving candidate. We’re all wired with different ways to retain and convey information. Listening is still one of the most important and applicable steps toward learning or archiving information.

And by taking a willingness to listen more and talkless approaches to each day, it not only brightens someone's day. But it also adds additional encouragement, with a splash of compassion as well.  and of course, you'll be encouraged within the process.  Imagine everyone taking a conscious effort to be quick to listeners and slow to speak. We'd most definitely notice tensions or angered disagreements de-escalate on our daily journey.

Your power word:

My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry. James 1:19 | NIV

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A majority of us listening can associate greatly with this statement from either our parents, grandparents, or someone of influence in our life. “Show me your five closest friends and I'll tell you who you are”.

It is important that we make a conscious decision in choosing our friends carefully. Taking the due diligence approach in selecting your friends can alleviate the additional troubles in having someone who will bring you down.

Booker T. Washington once said:

“Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.”  Booker T. Washington

Wise friends will find opportunities to build you up positively, they’ll also look for ways to help, and actively offer sound words of wisdom. Obviously we have to stay alert to the symptoms to know when our friendship with another person is leading us away from our vision or God’s plans for your life.

Proverbs 13:20 and Proverbs 12:26 our power words for today's episode.  It gives us practical but simplistic precautionary guidelines in selecting your mature circle of friends.

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Encouraging someone to have faith is easy but actually practicing those actions definitely poses its challenges. And how we approach each situation throughout our day plays a significant role in walking by faith. In all honesty, walking by faith is difficult at times. Because of our views towards what we see can be completely different from God’s ways.

Our podcast was started for that sole reason. Which is, to help build a healthier and soulful mind through the daily renewal of our thinking and outlining ways to stay in alignment with God. Our natural human abilities are incredible. We’re able to accomplish, push through, and overcome anything. But at times the weight of this life can be heavy and unbearable, which leads to unhealthy thoughts towards yourself and others. But God’s door is also open for meditation and detoxing our minds. He brings assurance that you’ll be renewed and refreshed each time we’re intentionally spending with Him.

Mind reset quote:

Through your alone and meditation time, you’ll not only get refreshed but also feel strengthened, along with the comfort to hold firm to your faith because you're not alone in this journey of life. Your hope to overcome is concealed within your faith. It helps us each day to continue moving forward, even if that movement seems slow and uneventful. Because faith requires action. “Faith without works is dead,” we’re holding onto hope that God will take care of the heavy lifting in our life. While we continue to positively navigate throughout our days on the purpose of accomplishing our daily goals.

Power words:

James 2:26 New King James Version (NKJV) For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

Hebrews 11:1 King James Version (KJV Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Continue to walk by faith, try not to lose sight of God’s greatness because this will not only encourage you to continue pressing forward with confidence that He has your best interest in mind but also it pleases God when we have faith and applies it with action. Keep in mind that your faith walk is a lifelong journey as well. That stands on these two fundamental pillars. First, you’re running in your personal race of faith, that no one else can run for you. And secondly, what pleases God is when we truly walk by faith and not by sight, you’ll start witnessing the manifestation of both present and eternal blessings and fruits in your life.

Your faith in God will reenergize you in every situation.

There’s great potential in our pain. God still views you with the potential to achieve something great even during moments of failure. He has not changed his mind towards us and His love for us is greater than our shame or disappointments.

Napoleon once said:

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.” which is our mind rest quote for today.

Enduring your trials and failure not only builds strength, but it's also developing a relentless pursuit of leadership.  This leadership quality demonstrates that each layer of failure reveals areas within our life that need remodeling.  Once those areas are identified, you’ll start noticing your fruits of outstanding quality flourishing.

Those qualities will flourish in an unprecedented way, which others will notice and possible praise. But because of your constant discipline towards personal improvement. The opinions or approval of others won’t be your driving force towards advancement. You're an individual of high integrity, who’s on the journey of being that same person all the time. This gives you the opportunity to create your own scorecard for all that matters to you and not others.

Embracing failure puts you at the forefront of your destiny. If you're open in learning from your mistakes and keeping a telescopic view in moving forward. With determination and heart, your failure will lead to success.

But it's easy to quit or not even trying to get back to your feet when you've been knocked down. And that attitude is what's considered a true failure. Considering how close you could have been to a breakthrough, but you've convinced yourself that it is not going to work.

Power word:

Psalm 40:2-3 He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure. He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the Lord.

We’ll continue reminding you that God is always near and if we fall He’ll pick us up and dust us off. With the intention and love to pull us out of the pits of failure. You’re a Queen or King traveling through this earth. Be bold and confident as you embrace failure with your faith in God as your energizer in every situation.

Mind reset quote:

There’s no time like the present, no better day than today, or no righter time than right now. Richard Branson

Having a sense of urgency toward your goals isn't bad. We are only here for a flicker. And a conscious decision to pursue your definition of success will take consistency and awareness that failing is an applicable avenue towards success.

No time like the present.

You might be having trouble manifesting. Not because you’re doing something wrong. But it completely depends on how you’re feeling right now. We all desire much in life but at times don’t think and trust that it’s available to us.

Even your goals can fall victim to that form of thinking, where you can convince yourself that they’re not attainable. Every individual desires some form of success but it’s easy to surrender both our passions and the drive to pursue those dreams to the fear of judgment from others. By having the misconception that success must be preceded by perfection.

What’s sabotaging your manifesting is your current truth. Which is most definitely different from God's truth towards us. Your truth at times can be biased and based on your experiences and perceptions. Which is still a valid truth for you and the universe delivers to you based on your truth.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom. Ecclesiastes 9:10

What steps can you take to shift things in your favor?

First, declare to your truth about yourself that it as worn out it’s welcome. Adjusting the thoughts about yourself and start healing your heart.

Second, don't ignore your feelings but also start the process of eliminating the unwanted truths about you. Which typically is not an overnight change. But it doesn’t have to take forever either.

Thirdly, turn your truth into a lie. Because God’s limitless blessing usually won't get delivered base on a lie. Your internal truths must shift in order for your external reality to shift.

All that you desire is truly available to us. All the goals that you’ve set are most definitely attainable to you. Your success does not require perfection. Just continue making the most of each day, no time like the present.

You deserve to achieve your goals and you no it as well. You’re actually the only one who gets to determine that.

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Deep down within the core of our genetic foundations are exceptional traits with the potential to positively change your world.

In the height of injustice, racism, world health crisis and our own personal challenges each day. Those core traits like for instance, courage, tenacity, persistence, faith, and joy. Just to name a few can experience tremors at times in the form of either thinking of giving up or feeling exhausted from all the daily issues we endure.

Which in result can mushroom the views of our situations? Clouding our decision making or even partially succumbing to the lies of the adversary that things will not get better or you’ll never make it.

Our mindset quote comes from Winston Churchill, who said. Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Yes, it can be a lot to navigate through each day. And Feeling the symptoms of tiredness or a dash of frustration at times is completely normal. But hope anyway- reinforce your strength with concrete veracity that God will not abandon you. He wants to help with every bother, frustration, and anything else we confront.

Because God knows everyone gets tired and exhausted at some point in life. Which is why taking the opportunity to rest is critical. And to be clear resting is most definitely not a form of weakness within our world mentality of go, go, go, win, win, win.

HE will renew you. Don't lose HOPE!

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Mind rest quote:

“When you believe in your dream and your vision, then it begins to attract its own resources. No one was born to be a failure.”— Myles Munroe

Stop worrying or wondering what others might think of you. Your destiny and purpose have already been preordained by God. Now staying in your lane doesn't mean, you don't have compassion for others or stop caring either. It's not you locking yourself away from society and the world at large or infusing yourself with arrogance and pride to become self-center.

But it's the opposite. Staying in your lane means: first, you must continue tending to the discipline of loving who you are and to boldly speak highly of yourself each day. Understanding that each difficulty is refining within you a leader, a mentor, a community activist and the list goes on and on. You’re not a failure. I repeat you are not a failure. You’re an individual that's been placed on this earth to bring about impactful and significant changes. The last time I checked, God said, not your friends, not your teacher, not your co-worker or even your parents. But God said: You are a chosen generation,( He loved us before we ever had a thought about loving Him)  a royal priesthood,( A lineage of royalty but also one that’s already a chosen leader) hence the word. Priesthood. a holy nation, ( was seen beyond our faults, our mess-ups, and even our failures but to be chosen as a beacon of hope.  A peculiar people. ( Different from those around you, like for instance choosing to forgive the unforgivable, chosen to love the unlovable and reflecting deeply rooted pure values.)

Don't get lost fantasizing or gazing at someone else's life, to the point you start discrediting your own life. Stay in your lane. Not everyone is going in the same direction as yourself. In difficult times, or even when going through life’s mundane situations. It's at times hard to comprehend or imagine that God still cares for little you.

Ephesians 2:10 New International Version (NIV)

For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.

Let's stand with the confidence that what every other might think or say, our future and destiny was already set in motion before the existence of time by your loving heavenly father.

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 Take refuge!

Right at this present moment, you might be asking, where did we go wrong? or please I can't take any more tragic news.

And just when it seemed like things might be improving within our COVID world.  Safely trying to navigate our way through each phase of reopening the economy, we got hit with a tragic, senseless, and evil curveball.

A senseless and evil act from another police officer just swung the pendulum further away from together we are one. Which can also bring about this question, where are you God when my world is falling apart?

If you're feeling like the walls are caving in, don't fix your attention on the walls but lookup for that's where your help will come. Holding firm to the truth that nothing or nobody is greater than God, retreating to His characteristics will help to reestablish hope and strength beyond yourself.

We’re on a transformation journey, by renewing our minds.  Let us continue to stay focused by keeping a higher view of God at all times. Even in the midst of crisis, this high view brings hope that our troubles and difficulties will not have the last word. God as the last word.

Stay vigilant towards your consistency of growth. Because our adversary would rather each individual have a low view of God, which in result glorifies our troubles and crisis.

Today, even in the midst of evil or hate. Please be reminded that God says I am with you. These four words are like a safety net, protecting us from falling into hopelessness. We’ll always have the mood swings from being up one day to down the next, which is a part of being human.

But God has promise limits to how far down we’ll go because we're holding fast to his promises and staying within His presence.

With all that occurring in our world today, it's quite easy for us to come to the conclusion that our world might just be completely evil. Or things will never change, and that I would respectfully say that's not an accurate assessment.

Yes, evil exists. And,  I would be naive to not acknowledging that. But the good(light) also exists, and from all my life experiences and evaluation. Good can always diminish evil(darkness) when acted on lovingly.

Power word:

“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.

“You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead, they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.

There are so many questions and I sure don't have all the answers but through faith and belief, I know God is still in control and also has the ability in healing our land.

Everyone has a part to play in making our world better, we have the ability to either brighten someone’s day by making that person feel special or the complete opposite.

This is not the time to bury your light or to hide. We can see that it's needed more now than ever before.

So how can we positively affect change?  1. Praying for peace. 2. Practicing loving one another even when it's hard. 3. Keep pushing for both Change and justice.  4. And walk in the authority that God is for you, He loves you and He will both protect and strengthen you.

“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. ”

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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