What if?
Sep 28th, 2008 by Ollie Lind
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“You are today where your thoughts have brought you. You will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.”
James Allen
What of this famous quote from James Allen is correct? What if you have the power of simply thinking in a particular direction and, lo, you reach your goal? Sounds a little fanciful doesn’t it?
Everybody knows that you need to plan, work and sweat, succeed and fail to eventually reach your goals. Life wasn’t meant to be easy, again a other famous quote to teach us that the only street we ever live on is struggle street.
But what if? What if you could think of something and have it manifest for you? How cool would that be? Right, it’d be awesome. Well, let’s think it through for a bit and see if we can make some sense of it. Every day we think thousands of random thoughts about all manner of things. What is it that causes us to move in a particular direction?
Well, we all have a set of priorities in life. Family, job, social life and all the rest of it. Somehow we manage to get through what we have to do and then move to what we want to do. How do we sift and sort? It’s simply a matter of us DECIDING WHAT IS IMPORTANT. We then look at those things and think about them so as to plan and achieve whatever it is.
So it is the DECISION which leads to FOCUS which leads to OUTCOME.
In effect, you go where you are looking and where you look depends on what you think about.
Now, here is the IRONY. This works for the negative aspects of life as well as what we are trying to achieve. So we RESIST NEGATIVES and, in so doing, FOCUS which leads to negative OUTCOME.
It’s really a two edged sword when you think about it. What’s the solution? I suggest you FOCUS ONLY ON POSITIVE OUTCOMES whilst acknowledging that negatives exist you will only adress them if they eventuate.
So, THINK about the POSITIVE things you wish to BE DO and HAVE, recognise that you will face challenges, but anythng is possible if you direct your thoughts in that direction. Remember, you go where you look, so look up.
Live well,
Ollie Lind