Rise strong

Everyday that we wake up, we have a choice of how our day is going to unfold. Are we going to start our day in control or out of control. This little decision starts the moment we begin to wake from our sleep. It is at that moment where a day can be dominated or lost. The reason is that our minds play a larger role in our lives than we give credit. From the moment our minds begin lifting from our sleep, we begin to program ourselves for the day ahead. For most of us when we wake, we start up yesterday’s program, thinking about all the things that happened and what that means for us today. Although it may feel like today is just a continuation of yesterday with a brief pause for sleep, this is not the case. To our minds, when we wake, it’s a new blank slate, it is up to us to decide what gets placed in it. Continuing where yesterday left off will just bring more of the same today. Yesterday, good or bad, is history. Owning the morning is the first major step of taking control of your life and empowering you to make the changes necessary to bring the most amount of happiness and love to yourself and the world around you.

Today, step outside of yourself and see how your day is going and compare it to how you woke up. Do this for a few days in a row, and you’ll quickly find the correlation between how you get up and how your day goes. If you want to find yourself out of the loop that hooks yesterday’s story to today’s, start your day with a quick intention or mantra the second your mind starts moving. We love the mantra from Norman Vincent Peale, “everyday in every way I’m getting better and better”. Keep repeating it to yourself for a few minutes, not allowing other thoughts to enter your mind. This little trick will will teach you a very important lesson of life, we are the creators of the world we experience and we control how we feel about it. Each day is a new day to bring about change for ourselves and others. Sometimes the biggest change we can make, is remembering today is a new day, and we are free to make it as we wish. Never let anyone take that power from you or tell you otherwise. You are more powerful than you think. Live Well ❤️