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According to "Learning Mind" there are 7 different types of thinkers. You have the "Abstract Thinker" who is able to relate random things with each other, they read between the lines so to speak and they get bored easily. The "Analytical Thinker" like to break things down, they take the big picture and break it down which enables them to be excellent problem solvers. The "Creative Thinker" is one who typically thinks outside of the box and will come up with genius solutions to solve dilemmas and remember things. Then we have the “Concrete Thinker” who’s different from the “Abstract Thinker” because they actually think of specific objects or items rather than theoretical representation. Concrete thinkers like hard facts, figures and statistics. A “Critical Thinker” goes a step further than an analytical thinker because they don’t just break things down to analyze a situation or what needs to be done but they use careful judgment in order to determine the validity or value in something. Next there’s the “Convergent Thinker” who will take a lot of components or possibilities in order to come up with one solution. Lastly, we have the “Divergent Thinker” who is polar opposite from thinking from a convergent point of view. A divergent thinker doesn’t start off with a set of possibilities to come up with a solution, they actually think of as many possibilities as possible to come up with a final solution…..talk about a worry ward! If you actually think about it, all of these different ways that we think sounds stressful and honestly they actually are. So if you “THINK” about it when we get up in the morning we automatically start with stress because we think about what we have to do for the day whether it’s something at work and the best route to get there to be on-time and avoid the traffic. You may be self-employed so you’re thinking about what you need to do for your business’ success especially because you are the one that’s counting on its’ success. Or you may be a “stay at home parent” so you wake up wondering what will you clothe your child in, or what you will cook for them for their daily meals, or what you’re going to pack for lunch, or did you make sure their homework was placed in their book bags. Either way we all are guilty of starting our days with the stress of a “To Do List” whether we make a mental list or we actually write it down, but is this the way that God intended us to start our day……absolutely not! He wants us to start our days with Him knowing that He has it all in control. He wants us to be at peace so that whatever we do we can do in excellence as if we were doing it unto HIM. If we start our day with Him we will see that instead of a “To Do List” He gave us a “Not To Do List”. Most of the Commandments that He gave us to follow started with “Thou shall not….” 90% of them actually!!!! So, what if we concentrated more on the things that we shouldn’t do, maybe the things that we should or have to do will be much less stressful. If we know that it’s traffic time on I64 during the hours of 4pm and 6pm why don’t we tell ourselves to not take that route after a long day at work and instead take an alternate route so we are stuck or sitting in traffic. Wouldn’t that take some of the stress off? What if we told ourselves to not wait until the morning to take out clothes and pack our kids lunches for school and instead we do those things at night? That would alleviate the element of stress in the morning with the hustle and bustle and we may be able to sleep in a little later.

Bottom line is if we retrained our minds to stop being bombarded with the pressures of the million things that we have to do we could help to combat the sense of failure or not meeting the mark. We could potentially lessen the feeling of being incomplete. If we focused on the things that we shouldn’t do we’d just about always reach that goal! And if you think about it, it’s a lot easier to not do something than it is to do something…..now isn’t that some food for thought!

 

“It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.”

~ Lou Holtz~