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Fear of man is a dangerous trap, but to trust in God means safety. 29:35

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Fear of man is a dangerous trap, but to trust in God means safety. 29:35

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I have the conviction that in order to attempt to rebuild our lives we must start from scratch. We must lose the fear of letting go and venture into the unknown, there will always be a better life for those who choose to believe. A tree represents a new beginning. We have the opportunity to start from the root, to have a healthy and positive life because there will always be a blank page at the end of the book waiting for you when you decide to write the best chapter of your life, I hope you decide to start living it today. Live your best life.

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I am so into reading and this book really helped me to transform the way I looked at obstacles. We always think it is the world against us when in reality it is us against us.

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Positive thinkers are not the first to believe something bad is going to happen nor it is that always assumes that worst will happen.

Being a positive thinker is basing your life on believing in your ability to create your own happiness. And negative thinking is believing that life happens to you and that you are a victim of your circumstances.

Positive thinkers:

See failure as an opportunity

Differentiate one problem from others

Generalizing the causes of bad things

See the gain

Make the most of all situations

Negative thinkers:

See failure as loss

Overgeneralizing problems

Self-blaming for bad things

See the pain

Let situations do their things

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When I was about five years old I had a friend named Freddie, he was maybe around forty or so. We lived in the same building, he was single and childless and I was the only girl there. He was a good, kind and light person. They say that when you are a child you can sense the true energies and intentions of people, and he gave me all the comfort in the world. He was good to me, he taught me things I didn't know, like how to play poker. He told me many beautiful stories and always told me how much he would like to have a daughter like me. Certainly, I grew up mostly with adults so it was very easy for me to interact with them, I was always used to listening to grown-ups talk and somehow that made me create my own criteria at an early age. Freddie would tell me many things about his life and always, no matter what, had a smile on his face. Sometimes I would hear him and his dad arguing and when he would go out on the terrace for some air, he always had a good attitude.

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I questioned him a lot if he did not feel anger or any negative emotions and he would tell me that for a long time negativity had controlled his life and that since then, he was trying to give himself a fresh start. He would tell me that I had to do the same. Sometimes I would get angry with my friends or family and although anyone else would think it was silly why I was angry, he would listen to me, make me externalize my negative feelings and then calmly speak from the positive and healthy. When I grew up, I moved to another place and we stopped seeing each other, but whenever I visited my grandmother (who lived near him) we would get together and play. One day after so many years he passed away, I was already a teenager and I was very hurt.

I sat and thought about all the good things he was and all he taught me. One day his dad told me that he always talked about me and said how much he loved me, as if I was his daughter. I asked him why he didn't have children and he told me that when he was young he had been jilted at the altar. And that he spent almost 10 years trying to recover from that. Then he had an accident and it made him realize that he had lost the purpose of his life, and he vowed that he was going to try to find love again, in any form. His dad told me that I had been that for him. The love he had asked for. Freddie never mentioned it to me. But everything he was, always stayed with me, to this day. Good people always leave good in you, and he was everything I wish I can be.

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we used to listen to this song when he was having a bad day. It will always be our song.

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Journey - Don't Stop Believin' (Live 1981: Escape Tour - 2022 HD Remaster)

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Feel the fear and DO IT anyways.

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Your life is more than just the moments of fear.

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For non-believers it may be more difficult to understand that through faith we can achieve things like health. Through faith we have the conviction that what we long for will happen regardless of the facts. My grandfather was a smoker from the age of 15. He lived a long life of 82 years and the reason he is no longer here is because it was his time to go. Anyone would think that 67 years of smoking 1 or 2 packs of cigarettes a day would have affected his lungs and maybe given him cancer, but it did not. And I think one of the reasons was because he did not think there was anything "unhealthy" about it. Every time someone brought the subject up, he said there was nothing wrong. Eventually in his later years he did try to give it up little by little, though never completely. Where I am going with this is that, he lived a full and "healthy" life, he did everything as long as he could and health was never an impediment. It was definitely not a good thing that he was doing and I certainly do not know if he believed in God with that much conviction or even a little bit, but whatever he put his faith in allowed him to live a peaceful life. Our thoughts and beliefs have the power to do what we do not. Even if human reasoning does not understand it.

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WATCH THIS EVERY DAY - Motivational Speech By Oprah Winfrey [YOU NEED TO WATCH THIS]