How Your Mindset Shapes Your Breakthrough

• By candidasullivan
• December 4, 2025
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Do you ever feel like your life is falling apart?

I’ve been in this frame of mind more times than I can count. Anytime we try to grow, improve, or move toward the life God wants for us, resistance shows up. The enemy doesn’t want us to rise higher—so he tries to drag us back to what feels “normal,” even if that normalcy is painful or destructive.

To break through, we have to change our mindset. Otherwise, we’ll keep taking one step forward and three steps back. Lasting change requires new thoughts to support our new actions.

For example, if I decide to change my diet and eliminate junk food, I might have enough willpower to last a few days—or even a few weeks. But eventually, the old patterns reemerge, and I end up eating more junk than before.

Why?
Because I didn’t change my thoughts about junk food.
As long as I associate pleasure with eating it, I will desire it.

When I stopped eating gluten, I linked it to pain, brain fog, and inflammation. So now, when I see it, I’m not tempted—because in my mind it is harmful to me. It’s like poison to my body. That truth changed everything.

This same principle works in every area of life.
Change your associations… and your habits will follow.

It used to feel painful for me to write. I connected writing with fear, insecurity, and comparison, so my mind gave me a thousand excuses not to do it. But then I felt the pain of ignoring the gifts God placed inside me.

So I had to choose
Which pain do I want to feel?

Now I associate pleasure with writing—joy, purpose, connection. I love knowing that something God gives me in the early morning hours might help someone else through their storm. So when I feel the urge to skip my morning post, I think of the person who may need the message, and I show up anyway.

Sweet friends, I encourage you to pay attention to how you link pain and pleasure.
A few simple mindset shifts might be exactly what you need to move forward.