“You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.” – Above Life’s Turmoil
This principle was not easy for me to accept and I fought it for a long time. As miserable as my life was at the time I learned this concept, I was certain that there was no way that it was due to the thoughts that I had held.
There were too many other reasons why things had gone bad: my ex-spouse, the economy, a client who had wronged me, and on and on and on. Since I wasn’t responsible for my “bad luck,” then certainly my thoughts had nothing to do with it.
But I was wrong. Like the biblical Job who said, “the thing I feared most has come upon me,” I, too, had thought myself to the situation I was in.
Dr. Walter Doyle Staples, writing in Think Like a Winner! Says, “I credit one simple concept with getting me started on my journey into self-discovery. After a great deal of study and contemplation, I came to the conclusion that people have in their lives today exactly what they keep telling their mind they want.”
Like Dr. Staples, it was a moment of great illumination for me! The logical side of me said, “if you and you alone can think yourself into such a mess, then surely you and you alone can think yourself out of it.”
And that I did. It wasn’t overnight and it wasn’t easy, but it was a sure thing! And by accepting all of the responsibility for where I was, and all of the responsibility for where I was going, I experienced a tremendous joy and freedom. I knew in my knower that if I got myself into the predicament, I could get myself out.
Of course, I had some great inspiration along the way. And I will always remember Les Brown’s three steps to take during “hard time:”
Have Faith (didn’t Paul say, “Faith is the substance of things hoped for”) Remind yourself: “No matter how hard it is or how hard it gets, I’m going to make it!” Have patience and engage in consistent action.
And that’s worth thinking about.
(excerpted from Day by Day with James Allen)
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Vic Johnson is a popular motivational speaker, author and Internet Infopreneur who has created some of the most visited personal development sites on the Web. His flagship site AsAManThinketh.net has given away over 200,000 eBook copies of James Allen’s success classic.
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