Your Thoughts Can be your Worst Enemy or Your Best Friend!

Late October I was asked by Susan Arceneaux to speak to her class at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette. My assistant, Travis Broussard, came with me. He was a graduate of the University 3 years ago and probably may have known some of the students. It made my appearance there easier as they would potentially be able to relate to me more. The class immediately filled up with more attendees than I expected. A few additional students attended who had heard about the event and that pleased me.

My goals were simple. I wanted to deliver a message that I hoped would stick to them before they entered the world of pay and their proposed profession. I wanted them to understand sometimes things don’t always start out the way they would like to envision them to. At the same time I knew most of the students were in their last semester. Graduation was really right around the corner. Many were excited while others seemed rather nervous as they were to embark into another road to travel in their young life.

One of my mentors taught me that my goal when speaking to a group was to always attempt to become part of their stories and have my name in their testimonies. That seemed rather egotistical but after years of understanding his thoughts I found out what he meant. I was to work hard to deliver a message that would travel with them throughout their young career and life that would help them look at all the positive things in their life. In doing so, possibly someone would ‘quote’ me and live by that one rule……something that affected them for the better. I would become one of their testimonies. That meant that I reached at least one person in the classroom that day. That was my job. I then understood exactly what my mentor meant.

Gwen Fontenot, who heads the Marketing Department and is one of the owners of THE ACADIAN was present and that really was kind of her.. What was my message going to be? How simple was I going to keep it? Where would they take these thoughts today? Would they carry them throughout a lifetime or forget them before the next class? I started thinking of what Paw Paw Daigle always said and Maw Maw Daigle always repeated, “Your thoughts (attitude) can be your worse enemy or your best friend, Kerry, and always remember that each day you awaken you should think creative and healthy thoughts. Try to always awaken with a smile.”

I gave my talk that day and let the class leave with this message as we gave each student a copy of the following information.

Your words, the things you say to yourself and to others, your dreams, the way you communicate and your thoughts have the power to create conditions in your life. What you speak about, your mind will bring about.

If you keep saying you can't stand your job, and you hate the people you work for, you will always be miserable at your job and everyone will seem like a demon to you. You will be the one who looks like ‘you’ stand out differently. You will just exist.

If you keep saying you can't stand the way your body looks, your body will become sick and out of shape. You will be ashamed of how you look.

If you keep saying you can't stand your car, you’ll always be ashamed of your car! You won’t be grateful for ‘having’ a car when others don’t.

If you keep saying you're broke and can’t get ahead in life, guess what? You'll always be broke and you will never find a way to get ahead.

If you keep saying you can't trust a man or trust a woman, you will always find someone in your life to hurt and betray you because you will always expect to ‘not’ trust anyone. You will constantly live a ‘life’ thinking you are a victim.

If you keep saying you can't find a job in your specified field of expertise, guess again, you ‘re right……you won’t find one and will never be satisfied with what you do find.

If you keep saying you can't find someone to love you or believe in you, your very thought will attract more experiences to confirm your beliefs. People will read that in you…without the words….just your looks.

If you keep talking about a divorce or break up in a relationship,then you will not have a good relationship and you will end up in a divorce or break up. It always happens.

Turn your thoughts and conversations around to be more positive and power packed with faith, hope, love and action affirming peaceful, happy, and contented attitudes….Dream again…Believe in fairy tales….and miracles will happen.….Stay away from the ‘dream stealers’.

Norman Vincent Peale in his book THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING (a must read) believed being positive could cure cancer. He believed that individuals should never allow obstacles or hardships to dominate their lives and believed people should have faith in their abilities and be self-confident (not egotistical..there is a difference). He believed that any ‘feelings’ of inferiority had to be overcome and that if you think you are defeated you are bound to be defeated.

Don't be afraid to believe that you can have what you want and deserve. God made us the perfect and most intelligent creature on this planet for a reason.

Your thoughts are so important. They drive your body physically and spiritually. They go directly to your heart.

Watch your Thoughts, they become Words.
Watch your Words, they become Actions
Watch your Actions, they become Habits.
Watch your Habits, they become Character.
Watch your Character, for that becomes your Destiny.

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settle for. It always happens.

Always believe your mind is like a parachute…..if it isn’t open…it won’t work.

You see….. people that believe in their dreams……will smile everyday and eventually will live a ‘fairy tale life’……..that is why and when miracles start happening.

So today, if you see someone without a smile…give them yours. It could change their thoughts.

Dreams, Fairy Tales and Miracles

Don’t believe anything less!