Absolutely I agree wholeheartedly. There is also the aspect of having 'negative' people in your life, especially on a personal level. Get rid of them! I don't mean that you have to pick a fight and banish them from your life. Just disengage. Vanessa Paige, my clairevoyent, my friend and my mentor always says - if someone doesn't serve your soul - get rid of them. The bottom line is that they will literally bring you down. Don't go there. Rather surround yourself with people who are upbeat and positive themselves. Who make things happen rather than sitting around and waiting for someone else to make it happen and then complain because it didn't happen fast enough.
Liken this life that we live to a movie - you are the star, the writer, the director - it's your movie, so make it go the way that you want it to.
Have an awesome week!
'Think positive and success will follow'
John Mullins
28 June 2007 at 11h00
I know I'm not the first or the last person who's going to suggest that the secret to your success is the power you hold within yourself. Whether you choose to believe it is another question entirely. There are hundreds of authors and speakers out there who touch on the same thing. "It is all up to you," they say. Frankly, it's getting a little tired. But my next question is, "So why don't we all get it then?" I keep coming back to this rather troubling question. What really is the secret of success? It seems that it has been a well guarded secret all along. But now one person has taken the trouble to research a link between many of the world's most famous philosophers and motivators. It comes down to some simple truths.
In her book The Secret, Rhonda Byrne manages to describe a common thread between centuries of writings. The golden thread is that we can change our world through our own thinking. Despite critics who believe she's oversimplifying life, what Byrne does is to bring hundreds of theories together in a powerful message. And the message is all positive. Without going into the detail of the book, I want to highlight some of the things that make a lot of sense to me. Let's start with the idea of thinking your way to success. It's difficult to argue that creation is not preceded by thought. Although some of the greatest inventions of the world happened in an instant and by accident, they were seldom without any thought. On the contrary, in most cases you hear about the tremendous power of the mind, as inventors overcome failure, criticism and massive problems.
More recently, there has been an increase in what can be called "positive psychology". Instead of focusing your awareness on problems, deficiencies and shortcomings, you should be harnessing the good you have, your strengths and positives.
As the secret reveals, positive thoughts attract positive results, while focusing on negatives tends to bring on more problems. Apply that in your own life for a second. Can you see how your thoughts can be contagious? Have you ever felt that when you were surrounded by negatives, you became negative? Imagine you could control your thoughts to always achieve positive outcomes. Well, the truth is you can. You just need to learn some of the basic steps that will ensure your positives outweigh your negatives. This is where feelings also play a role. You would be excused for thinking that this is about the logical and rational world of thought. Not true. Emotions are critical in helping us stay in the positive. Emotions reveal our thoughts. If you are feeling bad, it's because you are consumed by negative thoughts. As the secret says, it's impossible to have bad feelings with positive thoughts. So if you are constantly feeling down, you need to change your thought patterns.
The minute you stop believing that your thoughts can change your situation, you give yourself up to circumstances. This is dangerous, as your mood is controlled by things around you. From here you begin to think that some other force is to blame for your problems. Yes, things could happen to you. Some of these things could be bad, but you still have the choice of how you wish to think and feel about the situation. My advice is to learn from the bad things and celebrate the good. Keep yourself in a positive frame of mind, and soon the bad will be less significant. If you are constantly getting a raw deal, it could be that you have not been able to shake off a negative pattern. Take note of where your luck originated from. It's inside of you. Bad luck will disappear if you change the source. If you don't, success will only ever be a fantasy.
John Mullins can be contacted at John.Mullins@peoplefutures.com
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