Let us choose good every day and decide what we want more of this year, and what we want less of.

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You don’t need permission, but sometimes I believe we just want some to tell us that it is ok to go for it. So, I am giving you permission to go for it. Whether it is a dream, time for yourself, your health, or just setting boundaries…I give you permission.

Challenge: This week I want you to live boldly. Make you the choices that you have been wanting to make. At least one thing this week.

*Quote: * "You have the life you are willing to put up with." Gary John Bishop

It is ok to feel hope as we go through heartache. This is life. We feel like we need permission. We don’t, but I give you this permission, because I feel that hope is how we heal, and how we keep our eyes up during the heartache. So let us keep looking for joy and light in our hardest seasons.

Verse: Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. Romans 5:3-5

In order to truly feel the joy that comes each day, we have to slow down and live through the simple things, by speaking it, sharing it, being an example of noticing it, and giving this to our kids.

It is our choice where we put our time and energy. Even when we have to do something we don’t want to, we can put our energy into a bad attitude and complaining, or trying to find some good in the situation. Be more intentional about what you give life to. It matters.

Today’s guest, Lindsey Wilson is a mindset and high performance mindset coach, a former professional athlete and the founder of Positive Performance and The Mindset Coach Academy. As a collegiate and professional athlete, Lindsey utilized mindset coaching tools from a young age. This allowed her to experience tremendous success as a basketball player at Iowa State University, get drafted in the WNBA and play overseas for 8 seasons.

However, despite her many accolades, her proudest result was being described as ‘relentless’ more than once by opposing coaches. Something she attributes to her mindset training. But she also had a front row seat to so many of her peers struggling with performance simply because they didn’t know how to train their mindset. Because of this huge need, she launched her company in the mid 2000s with a simple mission: to get mindset training tools to as many athletes as possible.

Her mission continues now by providing mindset coaching tools to athletes, teams and other high performers with her cutting edge online courses and workshops. Her company works to expand access by training other mindset coaches in her craft. Her company offers the world’s first live dual certification for aspiring mindset coaches through their 4 month Mindset Coach Academy certification program. Lindsey is also a mom to three young girls and practices the same mindset training tools she used as a professional athlete, now as an entrepreneur and mom.

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Our days are filled with so many things pulling on us, weighing on us, and asking for our response, or our decision. Learn to take your time, and go to the one who has our path already known for us.

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Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. Jeremiah 29:12

Quoted from Lysa TerKeurst’s Instagram…

“A prayer for the girl who’s tired of trying to please everyone in her life. Dear God, I have been giving so much of my energy trying to stay “good” with people, and it has left me exhausted, depleted, and constantly feeling taken advantage of. Lord, help me determine what I should say yes to and what I should say no to. And as I draw necessary boundaries, I ask for your peace to guard my heart and mind through difficult decisions and conversations. I ask today that you remind me of how much you love me so I’m less tempted to turn to others to fill me up with things that I really should be turning to you for, and only you can sustain the type of giving that a desperate soul longs for. In Jesus’ name, Amen.”

I am the Lord, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me? Jeremiah 32:27

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There are so many instances each day where I believe God is trying to teach us to become more patient and accepting in the waiting, to help grow us spiritually for greater strength and acceptance in the big challenges in life.

Quote: And God would not waste her time waiting. He was planning. He was preparing. And her heart grew stronger in every prayers. @laurenfortenberrywrites on Instagram

Quote: But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me. Micah 7:7

Choose to believe, even when things seem dark and uncertain. Choose to believe in your loved ones, even on the hard days.

Resources: Lauren Daigle: You Say