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Choose Your Words, Choose Your Thoughts ~
RE-Evaluation of My Bible ~

So, what's the difference? Every year, millions of people set out to make such-and-such resolutions for the New Year, only to find that by the time February rolls around, they've lost their focus and those resolutions are gone with the wind. It occurs to me that perhaps the whole idea of such resolutions are self-defeating from the start and perhaps we might like to consider modifying this tradition.
So, the question you might ask yourself is "Am I trying to RESOLVE something or make productive changes?" Because by sheer virtue of your choice of words, it's my guess that your intention has nothing to do with RESOLVING. It's likely to have more to do with changing some habit you're not all that crazy about.
So, let's look at the definition of 'intention':
1: a determination to act in a certain way

Our Choice of Words ~
The Meriam-Webster definition of resolution is:
1: the act or process of resolving: as a: the act of analyzing a complex notion into simpler ones b: the act of answering : solving
It appears that this is much more closely related to what we're aiming at, yes? Because for as long as I can recall, sitting down to make those so-called 'resolutions' each year has been an effort in futility because I wasn't trying to 'resolve' anything. I was attempting to change a make a determination to act in a certain way. In other words, I wanted to replace bad habits with good ones. Problem was, I was approaching the whole idea from a very skewed vantage point. The end result was always the same ~ NO CHANGE AT ALL.
Here's why I think the choice of words has a direct affect on the end result. Our minds are programmed from long [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], long ago, by whatever we were taught or shown or even experienced before we even knew what was going on. Our little 5-year-old brains didn't know the difference between a good habit or a bad one. We didn't even know what a habit was, let alone whether or not it might be something to 'undo'. But we learned them (habits) all the same. It didn't matter that we didn't KNOW they were habits. So, moving through our younger years, learning whatever we learned from the environment in which we grew, we gathered all sorts of information that 'stuck' with us into adulthood. Problem is, most folks don't take the time to evaluate all that stuff. We just toodle along, struggling with this or that and never stop to think about how much those teachings are now affecting us all these years later. But if we did (evaluate), what might we change? How might that evaluation affect our lives? What were to rewrite our little 'rule book' to suit where we are NOW as opposed to where we were when we learned all that 'stuff'? What if, by choosing the proper words, we were to find that those words changed how we thought? Choose your words [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], choose your thoughts?
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