Encouraging and equipping women over 60 to live their best life!
My year, so far, has been a year of successes and challenges. Have you ever thought about how life can be filled with so much change and variety. I think that’s the beauty of the life we have been gifted to live. It is both the same and yet it’s about change. How we navigate…
The challenge is to thrive in the new, often unwanted, role. These changes may include divorce, death of a spouse or child, a job loss, a catastrophic weather event, or more. I find that if we are open to going through the door before us and give it all we’ve got, we can excel. I’ve also found that past experiences often prepare us for the next chapter—even though we may not see it until later.
Making room in your heart requires letting go in the same way you decide to get rid of material possessions. Heart-room requires replacing anger and resentment with forgiveness. Making heart space involves releasing pride, admitting your part in conflict, and determination to soften rock-hard, long-held resentment.
What you do with the first half hour of your morning matters. When we get up and spend time in God’s word and in prayer and we seek his vision for our lives we are speaking to our creator. He knows our hearts and our desires. He designed us to have a relationship with him. But he also gave us free will. If we get up and start scrolling immediately, or we turn on the morning news, we are basically consuming, the world’s advice. We are listening to the world. Our attention is getting pulled toward the most compelling story of the morning. Who we allow to get our attention matters, especially first thing in the morning. If you want to create a compelling future, you have got to get on top of who is getting your attention.
When I’ve played the game of life of trying to keep it at status quo, just good enough, that’s when I’ve been the most miserable. What’s actually happening is I’m losing momentum and my life starts digressing.
I can now speak to why downsizing and or relocating is actually number three of life’s major challenges, especially for the those of us over 60 years old, moving and or relocating is a Lifesizing® issue, not merely a downsizing issue. You see, Lifesizing® incorporates the physical, mental, and emotional aspects of life, of these life challenges of downsizing, moving, and relocating.
When life chapters close for others, and their decision impacts us, even indirectly, it sometimes feels like it’s ours. However, remember, it’s about them, not about you.
Today, I am addressing shifting from a victim mindset to a victor’s mindset. I want you to shift from a mindset of victimhood to one of empowerment through personal responsibility, resilience and faith in Christ. These ideas are based on Romans 8:37 in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. And, the Bible tells us, our mindset shapes our reality. Proverbs 23:7 for as he thinks in his heart, so is he.
This statement allows your brain to come up with thoughts. It gives your brain the opportunity to get out of the past. It allows our brain to play. You are directing your mind to creative intentional thoughts. Our minds are designed to create, to daydream to be useful. When we were children, we did this all the time with our thoughts. We did this when we were playing, when we were making stuff up. When we were using our imagination. We were letting our brains wonder.
Sometimes, when I sit at my computer to begin writing, I have a kernel of an idea that unfolds gradually. Other times, the idea sputters, dribbling out in phrases rather than sentences, and takes far longer than I like to form into cohesive paragraphs. My favorite writing days are ones that involve a Divine download….
