Only you

...can prevent forest fires.

...are in charge of directing your thoughts.

We tend to find external reasons why our minds go a certain way. Why we become obsessive. Why we keep thinking negative thoughts. All that. We blame it on the wind, on other people, on the full moon. But really, it's just us. It sucks as an explanation because it puts so much pressure on you.

It's essentially saying you think everything's shit? Well start thinking different thoughts. Be much easier to think Joe's a dick who fucked you over, or the weather's far too hot and keeping you grumpy, or whatever myriad of excuses we find.

In truth, it's really as simple as change your thoughts. Take charge of where your mind goes, don't let it wander and don't let it betray you or cheapen your spirit. Don't let your days be muddied up simply because you didn't have the honesty to admit you were doing something wrong.

Let things flow, don't keep them stuck. If you latch onto the first boulder you find, how are you ever gonna experience the great big adventure that is life?

I'm sure you know people who seem to manifest (laugh all you will at the term, yet there they are, doing it) certain situations. Like, they pour a significant chunk of energy into shitty relationships (and obsessing about them) and then seem to have shitty relationships gravitate back to them. People spending all their time at the doctor's even if there's nothing wrong with them, end up being sick.

It's not rocket science. You are what you think. You bring it into being.

If you think you know what your story looks like, if you've attached yourself to labels and poems and songs and things that carry you a certain way, you'll end up going that way. And you'll have no one to blame but yourself, either.

People don't like that. They don't like being told it's you. You're doing it. You're keeping yourself stuck. They like to blame circumstance, other people, but it's really them at the root. Sure, other things influence it. But external factors can't influence you to be a certain way or stay in a certain state unless you choose that for yourself.

It's very scary and frustrating, to think it's you. But also very liberating.

The moment you admit you've been keeping yourself stuck is the transition moment. It's the moment you can side-step the noise in your head or in your life, and move closer to the next phase, to what you wanna be. To all you can be.

You're never gonna move towards it if you expect the moon or other people to cart you around. IT doesn't work like that.

You're responsible.

So what is it that you're responsible for?

It's #threetunetuesday and I haven't done one in a sec. Thank you @ablaze. I'm actually looking for new music, as I feel I've gotten a bit stale. A bit stuck. So what are you listening to?
Here are some of mine.

Old as balls but fun as hell.

I've been thinking 'bout catching a train
Leave my phone machine by the radar range
"Hello, it's me, I'm not at home
If you'd like to reach me, leave me alone"

Because it'd be a crime not to, sitting on the beach all damn day.

My favorite thing that drives me wild
Is when a city girl walks a country mile
For a boy she loves
God bless the child inside the girls of summer

Damn. I miss mah boys, man.

So when you hear the sound of the whistle blow
You better walk like you got somewhere to go
You better run like you've never had to run before
Just don't fade away

what you listening to?