Think Like A Rockstar [THINK!] Dr. Cindy Trimm

[Music] thoughts simple bioelectrical biochemical signals in the brain and yet the way that you think affects everything that you do you think you feel you act your thoughts are the greatest tools at your disposal but how often do you think about your thinking god created you as an extraordinary thinking being you were given the unique faculty of consciousness to develop your mind at the level of your potential and genius and i want to teach you how to harness this power for to think great is to live great you alone have the capabilities to change all facets of your life for to think for yourself is to master your health and your wealth when you free your mind you free yourself to endless possibilities from within when you think you harness the power from within to work without limits to change communities governments countries and nations to change your world and to change your destiny all you have to do is to change your mind so let's get started [Music] if life was a school then jesus teaching on the parable would have had to have been entitled a crash course in thinking everything is important when it comes to thinking because everything about your life depends on it literally depends on it proverbs 23 and 7 says for as a man thinketh in his heart so is he and when i think about the world that we live in this teaching finds its relevance and significance and and its importance as well because we live in a world that constantly feeds us with other people's opinions and other people's thoughts and other people's thoughts about what we should wear and politics and who we should vote for and what we should eat and what movies we should should watch and most likely when you think your first thoughts are not actually your thoughts they're actually someone else's thoughts and that means that if there is a force behind everything that is going on in the world and if that force is actually controlling your thoughts the question is are you really free and if christ came to set you free truly liberate you like he said that he he was or he like he said that his assignment was the biggest question is not are you free just spiritually but are you free in your thinking i think when it comes to the whole idea of thinking we don't think about thinking and very seldom do we hear conversations or do we hear teachings about how to think again i've always said that the educational system is set up to teach you what to think but not how you think thinking has to do with concentrating on one thing long enough to develop an opinion or an idea about it so standard educational methodologies have produced none thinkers because they actually have taught us what to think and not how to think thinking is not the same thing as learning um and the educational system is all about learning so we learn about other people other people's ideas we memorize a body of information we get tested on the information that is memorized but that has nothing to memorization has very little to do with thinking it has to do with learning now in order to learn obviously you have to think but if you continue to just use the faculty of memorization you will never become adult thought leader and never have the ability to maximize your potential and pull out of you the uh innovative ideas that god has for you especially when it comes to you contributing to you solving problems in this world meeting needs and addressing issues now mind you i i have to agree that memorization is important because you have to memorize something like the um alphabet in order for you to learn to read and then you've got to memorize numbers in order for you to count but i'm not talking about memorization per se i'm talking about gaining the ability to think god's thoughts and to develop your own ideas and to be solid in your own opinions and your own core values and show up as such most people are actual followers they're not leaders and if god said you are going to be the head and not the tail first and not last it simply means that god is going to move you to the front so that you're establishing different things that people are following and so this message i believe is designed really to help you to become a thinker for you to be able to think even better and for you to become a thought leader you've got to be able to to consider yourself a thought leader i want you to be able to spend more time thinking i want you to be able to develop the order of thinking i want you to be able to put your thoughts into action i want you to think about your future i want you again to think of yourself as a thought leader and one of the things that is so impressive about this teaching is that thinking is free you don't need a degree to think you came out thinking when god created mankind he created him as a thinking being i was really reading one of the presidents alexander hamilton and he said men give me some credit for genius all the genius i have lies in this when i have a subject at hand i study it profoundly day and night it's ever before me i explore it in all of its bearing my mind becomes pervaded with it then the effort which i have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius it is instead the fruit of labor and thought and so i want to see you enlarged in the area of your thinking that you can go through life without lids without limitations without the restrictions without self-imposed limitations or even cultural limitations that are placed upon you so that you can move freely through this world and accomplish the things that god has for you alexander hamilton did something that god encouraged joshua to do he said to joshua look i want you to take my thoughts which is the word of god he said this book of the lord shall not pour it from out of your mouth but thou shalt meditate on a day and night that thou mayest observe to do everything according to all that is written therein for them thou shalt make thy way prosperous and then thou shall have good success so the ability to think simply means that you're able to take a concept or an idea and sit with it long enough to develop the structure of it until you are convinced that those thoughts and ideas will solve the problem will address an issue will actually make this world a better place so we're not talking about just people thinking wild thoughts that has no relevance for today we're talking about you thinking the thoughts of god god himself said i know the thoughts i think towards you thoughts of good not of evil to bring you to an expected end and if god created you in his image and after his likeness he created you not just as a spiritual being not just as an emotional being not just as a physical being he created you as a thinking being if you show me a man's financial status i will show you what he's been thinking about his money show me a man's relationship and i'll show you what he has been thinking why because as a man thinketh in his heart so is he people succeed in life and we admire them but the people that have succeeded in life have always been individuals who have harnessed the bioelectrical and biochemical intangible intellectual impulse of thoughts and then they put them into practical use so we're not just talking about you just thinking and you have this bio electrical and bio chemical impulse that's running through your mind i'm talking about you your thoughts being like electricity not wild electricity but electricity running through a conduit and that conduit is going to be god's purpose for your life it's going to be god's assignment for your life it's going to be your visions and your dreams and so you're going to be able to harness your thoughts and this is an unseen force and you harness your thoughts through the unseen force of vision in order for you to seize opportunities i have a great teaching on opportunities but unless you're able to harness your thoughts you're not even going to be able to recognize them and seize them because opportunity favors vision so if you have no vision for your life anyone can establish any thought that you would believe in and this is why so many people are bond today because they're being led by conspiracy theories and they're being led by propaganda and one of the things that we lack is critical thinking one of the greatest skills of the 21st century is critical thinking critical thinkers have the ability to learn unlearn and relearn and that that skill is what you're going to have to carry through life it is going to be important that you carry that through life you know successful people are disciplined people they're disciplined in their thoughts and discipline in their mind and they learn how to discipline their mind and focus in such a way that they are able to convert this dynamic force called thought into medical breakthroughs into scientific discoveries into buildings and cities and factories and airplanes and automobiles and every form of modern conveniences that we enjoy today they actually came from someone's thoughts this laptop was once only a thought this table was one's only authority this chair man used to sit on rocks in the ground and someone had a thought i need to be more uh comfortable let me make a cheer well what in what what is a cheer it came out of someone's thoughts you know and so when we talk about thoughts this is this unseen force that changes and adjusts the trajectory of individual lives of families of communities of governments of corporations it takes someone thinking and i want you to develop the art of thinking it's a discipline that helps you to focus on what is important so many people live distracted lives and i'm gonna tell you something that focus is a commodity and today we talk about weapons of mass destructions we need to be talking about weapons of mass distractions because so many people live distracted lives and they're not able to develop at the level of their potential and intelligence and genius one of the scientists um he's the marco polo of neuroscience dr um ramachandran he said and he makes this um interesting observation about the human being and his brain and he he talks about the brain and he says there are a hundred billion neurons in the adult human brain and each neuron makes one thousand to ten thousand contacts with other neurons in the brain the number of permutations and combinations of the brain activity exceeds the number of elementary particles in the universe think about that for a moment because you have no idea how incredible your mind is and we've got to learn the art of using our thought life and this is a crash course in thinking for as a man thinketh in his heart so is he again when god created humanity he created us as thinking beings and it may surprise you but studies do show that that positive thinking helps even the hearts of patients as a man think it in his heart so your thoughts are affecting your heart it's called the mind-body connection so we're talking about thinking not at the level of your brain but at the level of your mind let this mind be in you which is also in christ jesus the mind body connection is extremely strong your thoughts can affect you physically even in terms of pain they have discovered that sometimes even amputated individuals where their legs are amputated they still feel pain in the part of their brain though they don't have legs they still itch though they don't have a leg to itch and you have to understand how powerful your mind is your mind is always at work even when you are asleep even when you are not aware of it some people get severe panic attack while they're awake and their blood pressure shoots up and it all starts in the in the area of thought your thoughts create this cycle you think you feel you do you think you feel you do everything starts at the level of thoughts and if you can alter the level of your thoughts you can alter the level of your feeling if you can alter the level of your feeling you can alter the level of your doing and if you can alter the level of your doing you can alter your life that means that you are not waiting for government to give you anything you are not waiting for your boss you are not waiting for your husband you are not waiting for anybody you are not waiting for a benefactor you are waiting for yourself and if you can get your thoughts together with god nothing will be impossible the way that you think will affect how you react to bad news to disappointment to life's affliction to life's um challenges and it's all it all has to do with your thinking so in trials our thinking can lead to depression so when you're going through something how you think about what you're going through can actually affect you emotionally and psychologically and like i said earlier education taught us what to think but the parables teach you how to think and this is a crash course not giving you what to think but showing you how to think one of the things ephesians 4 23 says being renewed in the spirit of your mind so what does that mean i have to braid that with another scripture jesus said and i think is in john 6 63 he says it is the spirit that quickeneth the flesh profited nothing the words that i speak to you watch this they are spirit and they are life so in other words spirit is an invisible force and you understand that speech or words are secondary conduits of thoughts so he's simply saying that what is driving what i'm speaking is the is my thinking so speech is thoughts clothed in a language so its speech is thoughts clothed in a language and he was addressing us about his language then the spirit behind the language had to be an unseen force that drives results and manifestation that's what he's saying so that means that words are an unseen force that drives manifestation and if words of thoughts clothed in a language that means that that unseen force has to be thoughts and so this is why this this individual wrote he it's from an unknown author he said watch your thoughts they become your words watch your words they become your action what's your action they become your habit what's your habit they become your character what your character it becomes your destiny and if you don't like where you're living you paid for it with your thinking that means you don't have to alter anything in your life if you alter your thoughts because everything in your life will be in alignment with your thoughts and so it means also that you can safely conclude that what we think determines who we are what we think determines what we do what we think determines what we acquire what we think determines where we live what we think determines what we accept what we think determines who we love what we think determines what we become what we think determines where we work what we think determines what we accomplish what we think determines what we read what we think determines what we speak and this is serious and i want you to meditate on it because if you change what you think you could change what you speak you could change what you read you could change what you accomplished you could change where you work you could change who you marry you could change what you become you can change what you accomplished you could change what you were acquire it's no sense you going home complaining about the light blue couch that you bought and talking about i can't stand where i'm living well as long as you live there it means that that is what you think you are worth but the moment you are able to alter your thinking you're able to alter your life your lifestyle how people treat you what you accept what you accomplish and how far you go what you think fuels your words and your words form the reality of your life change your thinking change your world change your thinking change the reality in your world and i'm not talking about anybody out there i'm talking about your world this world right here because you become a magnet for things coming in your life based on your dominant thought as a man think it so is he write this down you will never go further you will never have more you will never accomplish more than your thoughts allow you your feet will never take you where your mind has never been but your mouth can take you even further your background your education your iq can prohibit you from thinking less about what you don't want and more about what you want you have the power to think for yourself so that means that if your life is going to change you got to think more about the life that you want if your destiny is going to be altered you got to put more thought into your future you got to think about your future and then you know pray and ask god to give you his thoughts his plans um that he has for your life and then begin to decree and declare it the scripture says that i know the thoughts i think towards you thoughts of good not of evil to bring you to an expected end and so one of the things that albert einstein said he said i get the thoughts of god and the rest are minor details and this was the secret of his creativity so thoughts are given vitality by your beliefs so you can get a a thought an incredible thought say for instance i'm going to be a millionaire that's a great thinking but your thoughts are given vitality by belief so if you are thinking i want to be a millionaire but you don't believe that you're going to be a millionaire guess what will happen that thought will never come to life so thoughts are given vitality by your beliefs emotions and feelings and are activated by the law of attention confession and declaration and verbalization so whatever you give attention to whatever you focus on grows in terms of relevance importance and it impacts how you speak about your life so if you spend all your time thinking about what people think about you and what people say about you your life is going to conform to those dominant thoughts there are certain things that you don't need to think about stop thinking about what people think about you what do you think about yourself as a man thinketh in his own heart not what i think about you in my heart what do you think about yourself what do you think you're worth where do you think you should live what do you think you should do next what do you think you should do about your marriage what do you think you should do about your problems it's one thing to ask people what do they think but when you walk away you got to figure out what i think what do you think you're worth what do you think that you where you should go what do you think about the end of the month what do you think about the end of this year have you put thoughts into where you want to be where do you want to be financially where do you want to be socially those of you that are in business what do you think about your brand not what people think about your brand have you put thoughts into how you want to be treated how do you how do you want to be seen have you thought about that or have you left it into the hands of everyone else now when you think about how god created humanity he created adam and adam fell from this this realm of dominion it was a realm of creativity it was a realm of innovation it was a realm of authority he had this wealth mindset he it was this realm of prosperity a realm of success a realm of empowerment i know everybody's talking about dominion but what does it mean you have to first have self mastery before you master anything outside of yourself i'm going to say it again you've got to have self mastery before you master anything outside of yourself if you try to master something that is outside of yourself without first thinking about self mastery you will never have mastery at all you will never master a skill you will never master anything because everything rises and falls on your thoughts so when adam fell he lost his intellectual bandwidth so the scripture says that god made man a living soul and your soul is the seed of your reflective consciousness it houses your mind your will and your emotions and because we're talking about thinking thinking is the faculty of the mind and so the scripture says let this mind be in you which is also in christ jesus so when we go back to the garden of eden we know that man was a thinking being and a part of his thinking was to solve problems and i i'll float that as a balloon and i'll come back and i'm going to treat that in a minute but that means that if life is was a school and i keep saying that the parables uh had to be a crest course in thinking let's let's go all the way back to the garden of eden to see if we can extrapolate how men thought so that we can build this message so if life was a school that means that the garden of eden had to be a laboratory that means that he mixed things together and when god said to him uh i want you to solve the problems here we have these animals and none of the animals have names adam didn't ask well where can i apply to university because it's going to mean that i get a degree in zoology and in order for me to be respected in this discipline and in this industry i don't just need a ba or a masters i need a phd in zoology in order to get the respect in order to qualify me as a zoologist it didn't happen that way because there was a problem automatically he did not reach outside of himself to learn what to think about he used the problem and activated the faculty of creativity and man was given an extraordinary mind and we see it right in the garden of eden he used his intellectual capacity to solve problems and as long as you are in this world you're going to be solving problems and you've got to understand why this is important because your your place of employment hired you to solve problems you should not show up at work complaining about oh there's a gap here and a problem here and we don't have this they already know that there is a gap they already know that there is a problem and they hired you to solve the problem now the bigger the problem the bigger the prosperity so you should be at your place of employment looking for big problems to solve a doctor gets paid more than a nurse the ceo and ceo gets paid more than entry level why is that it is so because the ceo the doctor solves bigger problems and so if you are a thinker and you're using your intellectual property and you want to build wealth you've got to attach your thoughts about a problem to a specific problem if you're going to go into business you've got to think about first what is the problem that i'm going to solve a lot of people want to be entrepreneurs and they haven't even put thoughts into the problem that they're going to solve and they start their business and their business is a flop and it has nothing to do with their genius or their intelligence or their intellect they never put thought into deciding what problem they are solving and we'll come back to that in a moment you have to be able to use your intellectual capacity not just to think but to acquire the information the wisdom and the knowledge for pragmatic application those of you that have degrees you should be a lifelong learner because what you're doing you're extrapolating people's perspective about a specific subject so that you can meditate long enough to come up with your own ideas and your own opinion and so this takes a lot of wisdom and you cannot develop wisdom by just ingesting information that wisdom has to be challenged by a problem you never get a person who is called wise who has not first solved a problem and so you can call yourself wise all you want because you have a degree you it would never ever be measured as wise or measured as relevant if your ideas and if your quote-unquote wisdom has not been tested and this is why people who have uh degrees a phd you know a a um these different designations uh when they write they become a thought leader or an authority because there is academic underpinning to a fresh thought or idea concerning an old subject or an old concept or an old problem or or methodology and it's it's interesting because when you think about airplanes it's it's fabulous because they usually think that gravity pulled things to earth until they found out that gravity was not the only law that operates how birds fly gravity needs in order for you to fly you need thrust and so up until that point the thought leaders were the leaders who talked about gravity gravity this gravity that and then someone says well i believe i could fly and so the wright brothers were just laughed at and they were shamed because they were thinking about transportation and they said well let's think about how we can get from point a to point b and in thinking about how to get from point a to point b they were individuals that rode bikes and everybody rode bikes and they they rode horses and and you know they said well why do we need to fly when we could drive well what if we want to go across the ocean well we can use a boat but what if we can get there faster and a thinker turns the prisms of their ideas with questions you've got to learn the art of questions you've got to be able to question your own thoughts with a what if what if i do it this way what if i do it that way watch this we now have um cans that don't need uh can openers but when i was growing up a can opener was a modern technology they canned the foods they used a can opener and everybody avoid can openers but there was this one man that said what if and what they what he did he used divergent thinking write that down divergent thinking this is not thinking outside of the box this is creating a new box that other people are thinking about and so he sat outside one day and he was looking at the can and he was looking at some snap peas and he looked at the can and the snap peas and he said what if we don't have to use a can opener to open up this can and his friends were like you are absolutely crazy how are you going to open it up this is whatever aluminum and you cannot open up aluminum without a can opener and he said but what if we could well we can and he was he was thinking what is the commonality between this can and this snap p and he thought about it divergent thinking what is the commonality a lot of times we know what is the difference there's a difference between the can and the snap peas we never ask the question but what can i innovate with a snap p the idea of a snap p most people would say well i don't see the correlation and that's the difference between a person that innovates and a person that just thinks everybody else's thoughts they ask a lot of what ifs then he decided hold on one minute in order for me to get to the peas the outside casing is compromised so you could just snap it open so we said what if i just compromise the top of this can we won't need a can opener and so they compromise the top of a can hence you have that flip top that you open up and you don't need can openers anymore because someone asks what if i can use the same kind of creativity that god used to open up a p without a p opener what if i could do the same with a can and so that takes thinking and if you are going to be a thinker you've got to ask you've got to exercise the faculty of vision and imagination so god said to adam adam you got to name the animals well god i'm not a zoologist well use your mind think about the names of the animals and so the garden of eden became his laboratory he was able to engage his intellectual capacity and his thinking cap facility so that he there was personal growth economic development and also industry innovation he not only created industry he innovated the industry he created and this is how you think he learned about his own capacity he learned about his own capability he learned about his own genius he learned about his own skills his own abil uh uh capabilities his own gift his own potential because a problem put pressure on his potential and this is how you've got to think about the problems in your life they could be economic problems financial problems social problems relational problems you can solve any problem just by developing the ability to think a lot of times um people come to me family come to me uh staff come to me and there's a problem and i just say just give me some time to think just just give me some time to think if i could think i could come up with a solution sometimes it takes me two days or three days or four days and i spend time thinking about it and i can find a solution to any problem presented to me for solving if i can just think give me some time to think when people come to me and they say well what are you going to do about this let me think and sometimes the solution will come to you while you're sleeping so sometimes you have to sleep on things go to sleep because your mind is going to go to work god said to adam i want you to solve this problem so we exercise several things he exercised critical thinking he exercises intellectual faculties he exercises innovative and creative genius and he exercised his problem-solving skill remember he's on the earth he's never seen anything like this before no one had ever trained him no one had ever educated him he never went to school to learn abc one two three nobody trained him to speak nobody trained him to read see jack run c the dog dot dog is named spot c spot run he never had the beginning um lessons on phonics what was given to him was a problem i want you to change your thinking about your problems because your problem is given to you to build capacity for wealth building build capacity for breakthrough ideas so his first task was to name the animals you're not going to give me a book to study you're not going to give me someone else's research you're not going to sit down and talk to me about what an animal is no so without formal education he became a zoologist he had to use his mind in a creative way he had to think and to accomplish this he had to reason he had to inquire he had to theorize he had to speculate he had to meditate he had to question he had to reflect he had to employ logic he had to substantiate his theories and his premises he had to construct he had to design he had to craft he had to form he had to frame he had to put elements together he had to put thought together he had to think about this and that he had to turn the problem around like a prism he had to think outside of the box he had to create a new box he had to formulate his thoughts he had to methodically systematically deliberately develop his thoughts into new technologies he had to facilitate he had to imagine he had to visualize he had to conceptualize he had to manipulate his thoughts he had the plan he had to devise he had to use cleverness he had to use ingenuity he had to industrialize he had to incorporate he had to integrate he had to use various skills he had to assimilate he had to design he had to strategize he had to develop a blueprint he had to develop schematics he had to ask what if and in asking what if he had to sit and contemplate he had to develop new theories he had to ponder meditate initiate innovate introduce new fields institute launch investigate research dell cultivate promote arrange order originate amalgamate integrate affiliate assimilate he had to harmonize coordinate he had to think about maneuvering he had to control his own thoughts to his advantage he had to design he had to build and he did it without education and if the first man could do it without education imagine what you can do with your education if you only practice the art of thinking if you could just get away and what i want you to do is to get some me moments and if you cannot dedicate a one hour a day in thinking give yourself at least a half an hour find a quiet place get away get get away from people get away from people's opinion shut off cnn and abc and nbc shut them off make sure that your bedroom is a dream room take the television out walk through your house in silence turn off the music turn off the news get you a quiet place i don't care how you have to do it get away from people and learn the art of thinking because if you can learn the art of thinking nothing will be impossible for you to accomplish when jesus came he wanted to share his thoughts and he was using parables to take complex concepts and to break them down to build capacity in each each of his disciples because they were going to be raised up as problem solvers not just preachers but problem solvers and so he said foxes have hole i think this is in uh luke chapter 19 and 10. by the way when you read the gospels and you're reading luke you're reading a book about wealth creation you're reading a book about kingdom economics biblical finances that's the context of those concepts and he was able to say foxes have holes the birds of the ear have nests but the son of man had not where to lay his head jesus said in luke 9 19 and 10 for the son of man came to seek and to save that which was lost and you have to ask the question what did adam lose in the garden of eden what he lost he lost his kingdom paradigm and that was a paradigm to innovate to rule to succeed to progress to create it was a paradigm of leadership wealth creation it was a paradigm of dominion listen to me carefully you are not there to embrace the status quo if you have started a business if you have launched a business you are there to dominate you've got to bring new ideas you cannot duplicate you cannot steal other people's intellectual properties why if you steal people's intellectual property you are losing your ability to innovate and create something new stop watching what other people are doing and then just putting a new spin on it what i want you to do i want you to introduce new ideas to the field so that other people are putting new spins on your idea and doing that takes a lot of courage because we live in a culture of cookie cutting everybody wants to sound alike everybody wants to look alike everybody wants to dress alike but if you can come out with your creativity if you can get away and create new things and create new ideas i'm going to tell you something most of what i'm thinking and most of what i want to do most people tell me that it can't be done so i ignore them and i do it anyway when people say that you cannot do it completely ignore it because in the book of genesis chapter 11 verse number 6 it's they said in the previous text it says let let us make bricks and let us build us a tower to the heavens and they were like well what is brick i don't know what a brick is but all i know is that we have to have a tower and we're going to make a name for ourselves and they said go to let us make bricks but here is what god said when he saw their creative ability and their innovative ability he said now nothing will be restrained from them from doing which they begin to do which they imagine to do you've got to be able to activate your imagination sit long enough imagine where you could be imagine where the industry could go if you could just bring your creativity to bear and so when jesus taught the parables he taught them to open the minds of their the disciples an open mind is a practical necessity of any visionary today if you are want to be a visionary if you want to create new things you've got to approach everything with an open mind one of the things that napoleon hill says never has there been a time more favorable to pioneer than the present true there is no wild woolly west to be conquered as in the days of the covert wagon but there is a vast business financial and industrial world to be remodeled and be redirected along new and better lines the world as we have created is is a process of our thinking observed albert einstein but he also said it cannot be changed without changing our thinking it is a universal principle that is a man thinketh in his heart so is he so there are several things that i've learned over the years about thinking number one if you're writing people that do not put thought into or think about their future has nothing when they get there number two the body is a channel of thoughts that exists for success and prosperity and if you want your body to produce anything that brings about success and prosperity you've gotta begin to put more emphasis on your psychology than your physiology why your physiology will follow your psychology number three you've got to be able to go ahead and create a thinking environment i know what i need when it comes to thinking i need order i need beauty i need cleanliness and i need openness and if you can give me open clean beautiful orderly environment i can think my way into out off around anything i can create anything with that what do you need in your environment so that you can begin to generate that multi-million dollar billion dollar idea right now your ideas are at the level of your income i'm not talking about your paycheck that's a different kind of conversation your paycheck is there so that you get on the job training and so those of you that are working thank god that you're working your boss should demand that you pay them rather than them paying you because what they're doing they're giving you an opportunity to um hone your skill and maximize your potential the next thing that i learned about thinking is wherever you go as long as you think like an innovator crea or a creative person that solves problems you will always be employed you will never be unemployed if you approach your task as a problem solver those of you that are in business you got to figure out what your clients need in order to solve their problems your clients are not there to solve your problem of meeting the overhead or paying your staff and if you approach an opportunity for a job or contract from the perspective that your client or your customer is there to pay your bills you will be out of business but if you approach everything that you do as an entrepreneur that i'm here to solve my clients or my customers problem and you do it with excellence you will never be without customers and you will never be without clients and so i want you to think about your business differently i want you to think for yourself i want you to go out on a limb when it comes to your thinking i don't want you to be restricted by someone else's thoughts someone else's opinion sit long enough and bring your thoughts to the table and that means that for at least a half an hour to an hour a day you're turning off everybody else's thoughts everybody else's opinion that includes social media and i've discovered the reason why the average person does not know how to think is because they have too many interruptions and so just as you get to a thought the phone is ringing just to you as you get to the thought they're getting a notification so they get a thought and they're sitting there two minutes later ding and they pay attention and they lose that thought thing something goes off music is playing someone is bothering you and we never develop the art of thinking and so we have become non-thinkers so dr tram how do you think what should what should be governing our thoughts this is how you govern your thoughts and it's a very basic simple way to determine whether your thoughts are productive or non-productive and what you want to do is to get to the point where your thoughts are very productive philippians 4 8 you won't believe it it's a scripture it says whatsoever things are true what sort of things are honest whatsoever things are just whatever things are pure whatever things are lovely whatsoever things are of a good report if there be any virtue if there be any praise think on these things so how do you think let me give you your first key for thinking number one if your thoughts are not in alignment with all eight categories ejected and i'm telling you it's hard it's very very hard and it's a discipline i catch myself sometimes and i'm meditating and thinking about something and then i'm talking about it and before you know it it's not in alignment with all eight of these um categories so what thoughts do you keep and what thoughts do you inject thoughts are like a bird flying over your head it can fly over your head but it doesn't have to nest in your hair and a lot of people every thought it just nests and they got this big nest of thoughts that have nothing to do with their lives and it's a discipline it's a hard discipline you have to be intentional you have to be conscious about it and watch what what will happen to your life so the these are the eight litmus tests that every thought is going to take and you're going to do it you're going to do it for the next 90 days no the first 30 days is a discipline the next 30 days is a habit then the next 30 days will be a lifetime so here's what i want you to do how do you learn how to think you take every thought you run it through this litmus test is it true now there's a difference between true and truth but is it true what if someone is gossiping about you and it's a lie do you run and repeat it because whatever comes out of your mouth you give that thing permission to exist in your life so what if someone posts something less than um honorable about you on social media you ask yourself the question is it true secondly is it honest is it honorable thirdly is it fear is it just fourthly is it pure is it without contamination do you realize that there are some people that will come into your life and i found this out about friendships sometimes you can have some great relationships some great friendships that people are jealous of and you could be very influential and i see this in the work the work environment i call it politrix it's not the politics in the workplace is the politrix and you just got a promotion to a supervisory position and all of the people that were hanging out with you um liked you before you got the supervisory position but one of the people that you thought was your best friend both of you qualified but you got the promotion and that person secretly harbors jealousy they're not going to come to you and say i'm jealous but what they're going to do now is influence other people's thoughts about you now they may not stay say an out and out lie but what they will do is that they would spread and innuendo do you think and i've seen it now i've been an employee er for a long time and i've seen it there's always that one person who's going to whisper always and what they are doing is exposing their insecurity but they don't know that they're insecure because they don't spend much time and what they do they're secretly maybe jealous of the person that got promoted into a um supervisory position or a person who is maybe favored by the boss or it could be a number of things and what i've noticed that happens is if that person is favored there is always the jealous person that sends out innuendos to raise a question about that person's character skill ability is as old as the garden of eden and this is what happened to adam in the garden of eden with god when satan shows up and he says did god really tell you god give you everything in the garden of eden i think that that tree over there if you could just eat that you will be like god hold on one minute i'm already like god and what satan did was to just raise a question about god's credibility and integrity without saying that god can be trusted and i've seen it in relationships i've seen it in marriages i've seen it in the workplace people are not going to come out and just say it i've seen it with best friends there's always the third person and especially if you have staff that are loyal to you and you have someone who is offended there is always someone that will plant a seed of distrust because as long as you've got your team in the workplace or if you're a supervisor and as long as you have people who trust you as a leader say you have a team and you're appointed the team leader there's nothing that you cannot perform nothing that you can't do absolutely nothing because that's what scripture says as long as you've got unity as long as you've got oneness there's nothing that you cannot perform all things are possible except if you get one person in the family or one person in the team or one person in the workplace or the community those of you that understand politics and you have these campaigns and you have the blue states and the red states and all you need to do is have one person from the blue state or the red state that raises a question about the credibility of the person you want to vote for your thoughts about them are automatically changed and eventually you start saying i didn't know that someone you weren't thinking that way before until someone points it out and i've seen it with best friends where your best friends until the third person is introduced in to your relationship this is what i have i have this non-negotiable that goes like this i don't do trios i only do duets this is between me and you i don't do a third person so if a third person shows up that doesn't like you it don't have nothing to do with me i like you but if a third person shows up and they decide they don't like me and they convince you not to like me i no longer am thinking about that third person i'm thinking about you i'm thinking about why did this third person have the right to come into this duet create a trio when you agreed that this is a duet and this is what happened in the garden of eden adam could have went straight to the horse's mouth but instead he listened to a third person i'm saying this for those of you that want to establish very strong relationships be careful who has your ear because whoever has your ear they have your mind if they have your mind there's the possibility that their thoughts can become your thoughts if you want to be successful in this world you got to get your own thoughts what do you think what do you think about the person what do you think about the job what do you think about your husband i've seen so many marriages being on the rocks because the in-laws don't like the husband now the in-laws are not married to the husband but their thoughts about it and so many marriages have been destroyed because the mother-in-law's thoughts about why you shouldn't have married him well you married my father and i didn't get a chance to vote whether i was going to marry them or you were going to marry them you've got to think do i really want to marry this man or do i really want to marry this woman and you can keep going around asking well what do you think about this what do you think about this dress what do you think about this car what no what do you think about it what do you think i should do no what do you think you should do i can help you to figure out but i can't think for you what do you think i should do about this this opportunity no what do you think you should do about this opportunity what do you think i should do about this job no what should you do you've got to put thoughts in it and a lot of people give away their personal power because they don't have the ability to think for themselves whatsoever things are honest just pure a lot of people have hidden motivations they have a hidden agendas so there are some people i've seen it where you know people have a hidden agenda and they come up to me and they give this long said story and i want to know well can i pray for you and their thoughts were not me praying for them their thoughts were praying on my pocketbook and them sharing their thoughts about their circumstances to me had little to do with getting wisdom or getting prayer their thoughts was if i can just tell her my sad story i can get some my money out of her pocket and so when we deal with purity we're dealing with motives you've got to be able to discern the motive of a person you've got to be able to discern the intent of a person before you make up your mind and then whatsoever things are lovely you've got to ask this question i mean you know you're sharing all this with me when i walk away i'm going to be depressed after you get through with me and then i've discovered i had one friend who came really upset came to me upset and said well what what do you think about this and they told me what the person said and this person was their absolute best friend and the person continues to bring her things that people are saying about her and they always i said get rid of that person that person is a snake they have no integrity this is what they are thinking about you but they don't have the integrity to tell you so get rid of them people that keep bringing news about what people are saying about you and what people think about you is meant to hurt you it's meant to undermine you and a lot of people have those kinds of people in their lives you have families you have friends you have frenemies that bring stuff oh do you know what they said about you and they just want to hurt you listen go on about your kingdom business what are your thoughts about yourself is it a good report is it virtuous is it praise worthy let me let me bring this to an end when it comes to your thinking we are often influenced and i'm trying to make this as practical as it possibly can by things that other people think about us we are influenced by social media we are influenced by the news and a lot of people have lost the art of thinking and their thoughts are a quotation of other people's opinion but they're truly not their thoughts whatsoever things are true ask yourself this question is it true what whatsoever things are honest whatsoever things are just whatsoever things are pure what sort of things are lovely is it a good report when people bring you stuff about you is it a good report when people bring up stuff about what you did in the past to try to control you is it a good report and you you say well i'm just telling you the truth and i hear that all the time do not let your heart be disturbed it may be true but is it a good report it may be true but is it lovely and if it's not even if it if it's true and it has to do with you about your past and the enemy is bringing it up constantly and you're sitting and you're meditating on it and you're filled with shame and you're filled with regret and you're filled with humility you've got to change you cannot go back to an old pass and reset it and call it a new beginning but you can start right now to have a new ending by watching what you think meditate on what you want not what you don't want meditate your about your future not about your past and all of us have done dumb things in our lives when we were manic when we were immature when we lacked wisdom we have done things we have said things it is what it is it ain't what it ain't and if you did it out of ignorance go back tell people you're sorry do whatever you have to do but right now what i want you to do is to hit a heavy restart a heavy reset so that you can reset the years that are ahead of you you have a great life ahead of you big things are coming your way and in order to see them manifested you've got to get rid of limiting beliefs you got to get rid of negative thoughts you've got to get rid of past mistakes and past memories and past hurts stop allowing these things to take residents in your life where now you're tormented and it builds up hatred and bitterness things people said about you things people did to you things people uh released that were lies forget about all of that things that your parents said about you things that was said to you when you were young that's too much it's occupying too much expensive real estate it's time for you to wipe the slate clean and let's get you thinking like a rock star let's get you thinking like the wealthy person that you are let's get you thinking the right way because as a man thinketh in his heart so is he show me your life and i'll show you what you've been thinking god bless hey everyone this is cindy trim and i just wanted to say that i'm so excited that you're here at my one and only official youtube channel we post content frequently to keep you inspired encouraged and always empowered when you subscribe to my channel it helps get the message of hope around the world if you've been uh ever impacted by our content in any way please let us know in the comments section i'd love to do live with you and i love reading your comments and don't forget to share it with a friend we also want to take a moment to thank you for all your support of the ministry with your donations and offerings with your phone calls and with your prayers you help to keep the ministry going when you 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