The first person we should encourage is ourselves. When negative thoughts creep into our minds and tell us that things are not looking good for us, we need to encourage ourselves by forcing our minds to think about the outcome we want. Encouragement is not just about someone else. Lets keep ourselves encouraged today, and use our mouths to say out loud what we want. When our thoughts and our words are in agreement, everything else will eventually line up with those thoughts and those words, good or bad.

Rhon Johnson

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Power Statement:

What I think, is eventually what I will say. What I say is eventually what I will do, and what I do will eventually become my legacy.

Rhon Johnson (1966 –      )

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We have heard of the pursuit of happiness and what it is, but what about joy? People are generally happy when things work out well for them on a day to day basis. But Joy is a little different from happiness. If we were to look them up in the dictionary, they reference each other and it appears that they are the same. I am happy when my children do right or when my bank account is growing. But I experience joy when I see that my life is encouraging to the lives of others. When my decisions and my work is helpful others, my happiness is catapulted over into Joy.

Rhon Johnson

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Scripture Reference:

For he will not dwell unduly on the days of his life, because God keeps him busy with the JOY of his heart.

Ecclesiastes 5:20

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Broken focus leads to unfulfilled dreams. There will not be much worse to deal with for our bodies to be all used up near the end of our lives and to know that we did not hit what we were aiming for because we allowed our focus to be broken. Today I just want to identify some of the things that break our focus.

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1. Completely submitting ourselves to someone else’s agenda. (Limited envolvement in other’s agenda is fine)

2. No step by step plan for our own agenda

3. Unhealthy relationships (They drag you down with their drama or else make you do all the work)

4. Not educating yourself (Not finishing school, or not getting the proper information to appropriately complete your agenda)

5.  This the big one. Not addressing your own addictions (Food, drugs, alcohol anger, sex, money, power, control, work, drama, TV, music…) and the list goes own.

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We all know what ours are. Don’t we? And remember, failure is a part of the process. Get up, refocus, and keep at it!

Rhon Johnson 

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Scripture Reference:

A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

James 1:8

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What is your circunstance? Do we understand that our circumstances are not who we are? But sadly enough, many of us are defined by the circumstances we are facing. Even if our circumstances are good, we should never allow ourselves to be defined by them, because our circumstanes can make a turn for the bad in a matter of seconds. Lest figure out who we are and be consistent. No matter the circumstance, we can decide to be kind to others, we can choose to be positive, and we can make a real effort to be encouraging to the next guy.

Rhon Johnson

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Power Statement:

If I allow my life to be defined by my circumstances, then my life truly has no meaning, because the circumstances of life are constently changing.

Rhon Johnson (1966 –       )

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Have you ever heard anybody say, ” I’m not getting anything out of this?” I know I have, and I have said it myself as well. The main reason we my not be getting anything back is because we are not putting anything in. It’s really hard to get a return on an investment with investing anything. Usually what you put in is what you will eventually get back. If we put in nothing, then that’s exactly what we are going to get back. This is true for everything. Financial, business, education, and most of all, relationships. So hey, lets keep it simple. If we don’t like what we’re getting, then maybe we need to check what we’re giving.

Rhon Johnson

Scripture Reference:

For with the measure you deal it out (with the measure you use when you confer benefits on others), it will be measured back to you.

Luke 6:38b (Amp.)

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Do you know what time it is? Most of us are clueless. We often times don’t realize that timing is everything. There is a right time to do and a right time not to do. Many of our endeavors fail because we are not operating in the right timing. For example, I have three children, and they have all expressed wanting to be on there own when they were, or are still teenagers. Yea, I can hear parents of teenagers laughing out loud right now because they know that the timing ain’t right for that. What about other areas of life where we try to force something to happen when we know it’s not time yet. Or how about this, when it is time to do something and we don’t do it. Either way, we come to the same problem that usually amounts to some kind of crisis. Know the time and respond, whether that means to wait or engage.

Rhon Johnson

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Scripture Reference:

To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven:

Ecclesiastes 3:1

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I know many of us have dreams that we want for our lives. I also know that a lot of us are not doing anything about it. Our dreams are not going to magically happen. We have got to GET UP and make them happen. No more complaining about how tough things are. No more being angry about how hard you had it growing up. It is time to GET UP and identify what we must be doing everyday to move us closer to the realization of our dreams. I understand that our schedules are busy, but I know of a time when there is very little going on. When the rest of the world is sleeping is when I take the opportunity to GET UP and do some of the things I know must be done if I’m going to see my dreams come to past. The Good Book say “A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands, it leads to poverty.” It also means your dreams will always be a dream.

Rhon Johnson

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    Scripture Reference:

For a dream comes with much business (activity) and painful effort.

Ecclesiastes 5:3

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“Look past the pain”, is the thought that came to me one day. I did not have to take time to figure it out. I knew what it meant the moment I heard it in my spirit. I remember those days when I was an athlete, and there was and still is this popular saying. “No pain, no gain.” Many of us don’t gain in life because we abort because of the pain. As I said in an earlier article, there are two kinds of pain. The kind that we inflict upon ourselves and the kind that is inflicted upon us by others. Either way its pain and it doesn’t feel good. But pain can be our friend if we can embrace it long enough for it to produce something. You never know, and entire nation might benefit from the results. I know it’s tough to look past it when we are right in the middle of it. But pain creates focus and generates power, power to change. To change us, to change our families, to change our communities, and to change our world.

Rhon Johnson

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Power Statement:

If all we do is feel the pain, we will never see the opportunity for gain.

Rhon Johnson

(1966 –       )

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Just about all us have something in our life that we want to see come to past. We have a vision of what it is and can see it as clear as the day. But sometimes when we look at where we are in life, it looks nothing like what we see in the vision we have as to where we want to be in our lives. When we see this, we have a tendency to get discouraged and give up pursuit. A vision will only come to past through much focus, discipline, work, and most of all, change. We must be willing to quickly engage the process of changing ourselves when it becomes evident that there is a need for it. Stick with it my  friends and it will come to past.

Rhon Johnson

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Power Statement:

If you can see, you can live it.

Rhon Johnson

(1966 –        )

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It is amazing how many people have crossed my path that can’t seem to let go. Myself included. In this post, I’m not going to speculate or give any examples because we all know of the things that we need to let go of. These things are sucking the life out of us and robbing us of our relationships. One day soon we may look up and be at the end of our lives and realized that we have allowed ourselves to be held captive by these things. That would be very sad. As I sit here sharing these words with you, the power statement just came to me.

Rhon Johnson

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Power Statement

We should only hold on to those things that add value to who we already are.

Rhon Johnson

(1966 –         )

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