What Do You Think About?

You become what you think about. – Earl Nightingale

If believe that it’s hopeless, it is. If you believe it’s impossible, it is. For you. Perhaps not for me. Or for your sister. Or for your coworker, or perhaps former coworker who has started her own business even though you were sure it’d fail. After all, you had the idea a year before she did, and it didn’t work for you. If you insist on believing that things are impossible, that’s fine for you, but I don’t want you in my life. You’re negative and annoying and generally self-centered. At least all of the “impossible”-ists that I know are annoyingly self-centered.

Another side to this is that when you think about something often enough, you start to make it happen. You worry about divorce, and you start looking for signs where there weren’t any. You worry about losing your job, and you are suddenly too worried to have enough energy to do your job properly. On the other hand, you think that you’ll get a steady relationship with a decent person, and your confidence will shine through and you will stop focusing on the losers. You think you’ll be successful in your job, and you start acting like you are. And if you don’t become successful in that job, you realize you are at least very good at your job and deserve better, finding a job where you can be successful. Self-fulfilling prophecies do happen.

Another side to this is what you read, watch, and talk about. If you talk about doom and gloom constantly, watch nothing but the news on the “all death” station, and read people predicting that the country will fall any moment now, you’re not going to do really well. All your energy’s going to be tied up in the awfulness of the here and now, whether that’s real or not. The greatest activists don’t say, “This is wrong!” and then shut up. The greatest activists say, “This is wrong, and here’s how it could be better!” They focus on the “how it could be better” part, bringing that into being. They see reality, see the changes that can be made, see the future as it could be, and then bring it about.

Take a look at your thoughts, your reading material, your viewing choices, and see what is in your mind and see your Future. What you put into your head is in part what will come out and shape you and your Future. Make good choices.