Change Your Mind to Change Your Life
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Change Your Mind to Change Your Life Charles Schulz was the typical high school loser. He failed physics, Latin, algebra, and English. He managed to make the schools golf team but lost the most important match of the season. He wasn’t disliked by others, his classmates never really bothered to approach him. Charles never asked a girl out in high school out of fear of rejection. Apart from this, he was happy with himself and made up his mind that if things were meant to work out they would. There was one thing that was important to him; his artwork. He was very proud of his artwork but no one else appreciated it. Upon his graduation of high school, he wrote a letter to Walt Disney Studios and they told him to send some of his cartoons based on suggestions by them. He spent a great deal of time on them and sent them back to Walt Disney, but once again he was rejected but Charles did not give up. He decided to write his own autobiography using cartoons. Through these cartoons he described the younger version of himself; a loser that had a little to no success in high school. Charles created the popular comic strip “Peanuts” about the little boy Charlie Brown who never succeeded in kicking a football and whose kite would never fly. The mind is the most powerful tool the body has but it grows only according to the extent of which we use it. In psychology the study of dualism is the link the body has with the mind. They are both separate but cooperate together. The
placebo effect is a good example of showing how the mind is powerful. The placebo effect happens when a person takes medication that he or she believes will help cure them even when it has not been proven to cure. The reason this method works is because the mind of the patient believes it will get better. This proves the strength the mind has. The quote “When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it.” By David Joseph Schwartz is not simply a quote but truth. The problem with our society today is that many people have dreams and ideas but no one goes beyond the idea stage. To be successful in life, those ideas must become and action. If you let your ideas stay in the “idea stage” you become a follower. If you don’t have a goal or dream you tend to look back and fall into worldly traps. Having a goal allows you to look forward instead of backwards. Many people have terrible pasts filled with various kinds of abuse, problems that started at home and others that started at school. Some decide they don’t want to end up going down the wrong path and instead look forward with high hopes and new goals. The simple thought of changing your mind sparks an idea in your brain. The writing down of this idea turns it into a plan and acting on it turns it into an action. This action can lead to a whole new beginning for a person. For example; As a teen my youth leader’s husband spent his life in clubs drinking, smoking and wasting
his life away. Although he grew up in a Christian home, he strayed away and got caught up in worldly things because he had no goal, no plan for his life. One day when leaving the club he watched his cousin, who was drunk at the time, get on a motorcycle and drive off only to be knocked off shortly after and killed. After this, he decided that he had to change his ways. He saw the wrong he was doing and wanted to honor his cousin by becoming a better person. Today he is married, has four kids and volunteers often in the church. He decided to look forward and have a positive goal. He, like Charles Schulz made up their minds to do something with their lives. They didn’t let the world bring them down, but worked to change their lives for better. God created each of us to change the world, not to give into the world ad everything it offers us. Romans 12:2 quotes, “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.” As teens, we need to allow the word of God to become our final authority in life and not allow the world to twist and turn us in every direction. As we dream, imagine, and plan we will begin to see why God created us and what He wants us to do.
placebo effect is a good example of showing how the mind is powerful. The placebo effect happens when a person takes medication that he or she believes will help cure them even when it has not been proven to cure. The reason this method works is because the mind of the patient believes it will get better. This proves the strength the mind has. The quote “When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it.” By David Joseph Schwartz is not simply a quote but truth. The problem with our society today is that many people have dreams and ideas but no one goes beyond the idea stage. To be successful in life, those ideas must become and action. If you let your ideas stay in the “idea stage” you become a follower. If you don’t have a goal or dream you tend to look back and fall into worldly traps. Having a goal allows you to look forward instead of backwards. Many people have terrible pasts filled with various kinds of abuse, problems that started at home and others that started at school. Some decide they don’t want to end up going down the wrong path and instead look forward with high hopes and new goals. The simple thought of changing your mind sparks an idea in your brain. The writing down of this idea turns it into a plan and acting on it turns it into an action. This action can lead to a whole new beginning for a person. For example; As a teen my youth leader’s husband spent his life in clubs drinking, smoking and wasting
his life away. Although he grew up in a Christian home, he strayed away and got caught up in worldly things because he had no goal, no plan for his life. One day when leaving the club he watched his cousin, who was drunk at the time, get on a motorcycle and drive off only to be knocked off shortly after and killed. After this, he decided that he had to change his ways. He saw the wrong he was doing and wanted to honor his cousin by becoming a better person. Today he is married, has four kids and volunteers often in the church. He decided to look forward and have a positive goal. He, like Charles Schulz made up their minds to do something with their lives. They didn’t let the world bring them down, but worked to change their lives for better. God created each of us to change the world, not to give into the world ad everything it offers us. Romans 12:2 quotes, “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.” As teens, we need to allow the word of God to become our final authority in life and not allow the world to twist and turn us in every direction. As we dream, imagine, and plan we will begin to see why God created us and what He wants us to do.
