People who spend long periods of time at home and slowly lose the desire to go outside often think they're just resting. But psychologically, many of them are experiencing something called mental rumination. It's a state where the brain starts slowing down while the number of thoughts inside keeps increasing and the motivation to do anything slowly disappears. The mind gets stuck in the past, worries about the future and burns itself out. This isn't laziness, it's a nervous system stuck in survival mode. And the longer it lasts, the more distant normal life begins to feel. And the difficult part is that you usually can't escape it through one massive burst of motivation. And sometimes,recovery starts with just one small step.
elvis recorded more than 711 songs, but only 18 became global hits. thomas edison registered more than 1,100 patents, but people only remember one.
lionel messi has taken over 4,520 shots and only scored 859.
walt disney was rejected 302 times because of a lack of creativity before he got mickey mouse financed. van gogh made more than 2,100 paintings, died poor, and most people can't name more than 10.
james dyson built 5,127 prototypes and only 1 changed his life.
and you're giving up cos you haven't got what you want after trying what? twice? or maybe just 10 times? look, and at the end of the day, you don't have to be great to start, but you do have to start to be great.
a winner is just a loser that tried one more time and that's just it. winners lose more than losers even try.
I heard someone say, satan got adam and eve to fix their eyes on one tree when god had already given them an entire garden, think about that. The enemy didn't have to convince them that they had nothing. He just had to make them forget everything that they already had. And he still, till this day, uses the same strategy. He gets us to focus on relationships we don't have, the job that we don't have, the opportunity we don't have, the healing we haven't seen yet. Meanwhile, we are blind to the countless prayers god has already answered. Gratitude isn't pretending you don't want more, it's refusing to let what you don't have make you forget the goodness of god that's already surrounding you.
I have children. I monitor everything that comes through the screen by watching it with them. We have time limits and expectations. I’ve never once said “because I said so”. My oldest who is 5 going on 6 knows he can negotiate time limits with chores and acts of service around the house. Parenting is a full time job and too many people think they can pawn these responsibilities off to teachers, screens and what ever other distractions you give them to avoid doing your job and then wonder “what happened to my child”
Look at all the American flags and pride in our country in Seattle, Washington of all places today! 🇺🇸
The American hating radical leftists who live in that city are gonna have to go through months of therapy after the World Cup ends! 😂