| Joy or Misery?--#9 Christians Need Motivation Too |
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Quotation: “We may make the best of life or we may make the worst of it; and it depends very much upon ourselves whether we extract joy or misery from it.” –Samuel Smiles
Motivation Comments: One of our greatest human freedoms is the right to interpret our circumstances. We often cannot control what happens to us, but we always have the freedom and the right to decide what those happenings mean to us.
That is our freedom of choice. We can make the best of an event in our life or we can make the worst of it. And no one else can control our choice.
We can decide to pull joy out of our circumstances even if we don’t like them. Or, if we choose to do so, we can even pull misery out of pleasant events. But it is our choice!
How do you extract joy from negative or unpleasant events?
1) Ask, “What is good about this?” Then seek and find something good (even if it is only a very small good) about that event and continually make yourself focus intently on that good thing.
2) Find the humor in the negative event. One way to do this is to pretend that it is happening to a comic. I picture Lucy going through my painful experiences, and often it makes me chuckle. (It always makes me feel a wee bit better.)
3) Focus on and rejoice over what you have left. Don’t remain focused on what you have lost or suffered.
4) Determine to be joyful, not miserable and make every reasonable mental effort to maintain your joy.
5) Remember that everyday above ground is a very good day.
So how about you? Will you extract joy from the things that happen to you today? Or misery?  |
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