{"id":20392,"date":"2012-08-09T12:18:36","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T16:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=20392"},"modified":"2012-08-09T12:24:56","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T16:24:56","slug":"if-we-choose-to-do-nothing-nothing-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/if-we-choose-to-do-nothing-nothing-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Lethargy: Letting our mind get the best of us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s when we&#8217;re in the slumps and don&#8217;t feel motivated that we find out how in control of our mind we really are, how in control of our will. \u00a0We can either choose to begin using self \u00a0talk that motivates us, or choose to do nothing and let the old, unproductive thoughts rule our mind, letting us brood and isolate. \u00a0We can either choose to jump up and stay in motion and do something that needs to be done, or we can choose to do nothing. \u00a0As I wrote in \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=891\">How to stay functional as you sit out the bleak and depressing times<\/a>, &#8220;Maybe we can\u2019t always control the sudden onset of a mood, but we can control how we react to it.\u00a0 We can control our thought that if we trust in the process, we will have successful results.&#8221; \u00a0As soon as we become in charge of what thoughts we choose to think and begin to exercise the power of our will to do so, we become very powerful creators.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=1871\" target=\"_blank\">How To Strengthen Willpower<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/if-we-choose-to-do-nothing-nothing-changes\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Lethargy: Letting our mind get the best of us&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/if-we-choose-to-do-nothing-nothing-changes\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/if-we-choose-to-do-nothing-nothing-changes\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/if-we-choose-to-do-nothing-nothing-changes\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=Lethargy:%20Letting%20our%20mind%20get%20the%20best%20of%20us&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/if-we-choose-to-do-nothing-nothing-changes\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s when we&#8217;re in the slumps and don&#8217;t feel motivated that we find out how in control of our mind we really are, how in control of our will. \u00a0We can either choose to begin using self \u00a0talk that motivates us, or choose to do nothing and let the old, unproductive thoughts rule our mind, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20392"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20410,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20392\/revisions\/20410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}