Religion: Your Focus Determines Your Reality

Your Focus Determines Your Reality

Written by Caleb Osborne

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"Your Focus Determines Your Reality"

- by Caleb Osborne

"Your focus determines your reality", this famous line was spoken by Qui-Gonn Jinn of Start Wars-The Phantom Menace fame.

Ok, perhaps it is really infamous and you don't remember that quote. Nonetheless, think about it for a moment. Would you agree or disagree?

I'm about to show you why I emphatically agree with this certain Jedi Master and not just because it's from Star Wars...well not completely ;) No I'm going to show you how your focus relates to anything you want to be successful in and then more specifically your Christian life. Ready? Let's Go!

"Close or narrow attention; concentration" - so says Mister dictionary.com. When you are focusing on a certain aspect of anything, you generally ignore repparttar rest of repparttar 126552 picture. You're concentrating so hard that repparttar 126553 rest of it at repparttar 126554 very least becomes far less important and occupies less of your mental powers.

So what happens? You get more of what you're focusing on. And less of what you're ignoring. You can be successful at what ever it is you are focusing on because you're giving it all your attention. And everything else gets harder to become better at.

Whatever is in your focus, you will start to concentrate on it and you will be better conditioned to alter certain aspects of your life which will allow repparttar 126555 object of your focus to actually become a true part of your life.

Perhaps an example is in order:

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Say you are on a diet. You're not allowed to eat any carbohydrates. So what should you focus on? If you're gonna focus on repparttar 126556 fact that you can't eat donuts and ho hos, what do you think you're gonna be craving all day? That's right--ho hos and donuts!

Now instead, lets say you focus on how you can make a great tasting meal out of fresh vegetables and yummy lean meat products, how you're gonna prepare them, cook them and enrich repparttar 126557 flavor. What do you think you're gonna be craving that night? The no-carb-lean-meaty meal of course!

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See how your focus determines your reality? If you're concentrating on what you shouldn't be doing, you're setting yourself up for failure...are you starting to see how this relates to your Christian walk?

Do not let Setbacks Stop You

Written by Cathi Pope

“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me” Philippians 4:13 There has been many times then I care to remember when I have read Philippians 4:13, and each time I have, it would register with me for a short while, sort of like a passive attitude, if you will. In other words, I would just take my faith for granted.

I am sure that you are probably wondering “what does she mean by that?” I certainly didn’t realize this myself at first, but now I do. Let me explain. In repparttar past, upon reading Philippians 4:13, or even quoting Philippians 4:13, my reaction would be, “oh yea, all I need is faith”, then 10 minutes later I would forget about it. Until, of course, it has been brought to my attention repparttar 126551 conditions that repparttar 126552 Apostle Paul was in when he wrote this letter. Paul was in prison in Philippi. Not only that, he wrote most of repparttar 126553 New Testament while in prison in one place or another. We are not talking about repparttar 126554 prisons as we know them today, oh no. Here is a description of the

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