How Do You Eat An Elephant? One Bite At A Time.
I shared that IF you start looking at things differently, you will change the things you look at. If you change the way you think, you can change your life.
Are you asking: “well where in the heck or how in the world do I even start?”
Let’s take a young lady who decided to drop out of high school in the 10th grade as an example. Let’s call her JP. JP later becomes a teen mom and decides to end the relationship with her child’s father and become a single parent. She eventually marries, has a second child, but divorces soon thereafter. She has no marketable job skills, no money per se, and nowhere to live. She gets food stamps and other humiliating state assistance. Fast-forward through many difficult life incidents to approximately 10 – 12 years later. Her two beautiful daughters are now bringing her hugs and presenting her an ice-cold Coca-Cola at her college graduation. JP also obtains her first professional position as a criminal investigator for the Juvenile Court Justice system. How did JP change her thoughts and perspectives to bring these significant changes into her life?
My belief and experience is that you do it the same way you eat an elephant, one bite at a time. That’s how JP did it. You start changing the way you think one thought at a time. JP stood with the sun beating down on her beautiful early 20’s year old face looking up at the sky hoping God would tell her what to do to be happy and at peace with herself. She remembers thinking about her choices she was making for herself and her children and said out loud, “I CAN do better than this! She was not completely sure what better would look like. She knew she was starting the new process by going to college. JP took a negative toxic thought buried deep in her subconscious that she didn’t deserve anything good and changed it to I CAN Do better than this. Bite number one completed. To be cont.…
Changing the way we think is a process. It’s not a snap your finger and poof it’s instantaneously done in most cases. For instance, in my last blog, I decided to end a toxic relationship and did so right then and there. While it sounds like I did it right then and there in a snap decision, in reality, it was based on many prior thoughts, observances and investigation. However, it started with the single thought that my “Spidey- Senses” were detecting something was amiss in paradise.
Do you want to start eating your metaphorical elephant? If so, what is the first bite of your elephant you would like to take? What toxic or negative thought do you need to turn into a healthy productive thought? Do you need help navigating the process of changing the way you think so you can change the way you live? By the way, I love elephants, and none will be injured in our journey to joy, abundance, and happiness.