Are you accomplishing the goals you have set for yourself or are you giving in to your environment? Having grown up in a single parent household with an older brother, I could have easily given in to the stereotypes of children raised in a single parent environment. Think about it, there are a lot of people who think and even say, children of single parents will not amount to anything or be able to attend college. Thank God, I had a mother who was strong in her relationship with God and wanted more for us than she had. She encouraged my brother and I to get an education and do more than she had done.

Knowing what my environment was in my home state, prior to graduating high school I decided that I would join the United States Armed Forces as my option to leave. Little did I know what challenges faced me. I didn’t weigh the minimum amount to join. Within six months I overcame that challenge. Then for the job I would be performing I had to lift 60lbs. I exceeded that goal within three or four months. I enlisted and was off to basic training.  Later in my life, I decided to return to school for a Doctorate of Ministry in Biblical Counseling. Four months after I started school, I was in a motor vehicle accident that caused me to have a mild traumatic brain injury. I had short and long-term memory loss that lasted easily two years. A neurologist even told me that what I had lost in memory was lost and what I remembered I would remember. In a nutshell, I would have good days and bad days. Three years after the accident, I was able to return to college and graduate with honors and receive my Doctorate of Ministry in Biblical Counseling.

Am I saying that life is easy? No. Am I saying that you will have a challenge everyday in life? No. What I am saying to you is your mindset is the key to your success, finances or your demise. According to American Heritage Dictionary mindset is “a fixed mental attitude or disposition that predetermines a person’s responses to and interpretations of situations. What that means is it has already been decided how you would react to a situation based on how you handled the situation before.Let me give you an example, if you hear a sound in the car that doesn’t sound right what is the first thing that comes to your mind? Is it that it doesn’t sound good, I know it’s going to cost me a lot of money? Or is it, I have been wanting to get my car checked and any necessary repairs fixed.Remember Proverbs 23:7 says, “So as a man thinketh in his heart so is he.” So if you think the car is going to cost a lot of money to repair it probably will. When we think things we tend to speak it out. Usually we speak negativity in and over our own lives. Today is a new day and through this website,  you will be encouraged to renew your mindset to God’s word. A better way of thinking for success and not failure.

How many of you have heard the scripture, Philippians 4:8 which says, “Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.Your mindset will not change overnight, but you can begin the process of renewing your mind. Begin thinking you will succeed and don’t be afraid of success. There are people who are their own hindrance to success. As you will notice in each circumstance above, I had already purposed that I was going to succeed and reach my goals.

It’s your turn, grab a hold of your promises.