Do you know how you ended up to be who you are now? It is the way you think. Your thinking or thoughts directly control your actions. And that will determine what happens to you. In other words, if you want to change your life, then change your thinking. It is the thought that count, so to speak.You have heard the expresion "thoughts are things". Your thoughts control and determine almost everything that happens to you. They can excite or incite you, improve or disrupt your health, lull you into a relaxing sleep or keep you wide awake throughout the night.
Your thoughts can make you feel powerful or helpless, a success or an utter failure. Your thoughts will trigger you to act. And that can change your life. The good thing is you can control your thoughts. So it means you can decide your course of actions. What to do or what not to do.
Following closely with your thoughts are elements like: feelings, desires, attitudes, hopes, fears, ambitions, images and doubts. Basically your life is a mixture of all these elments. When you think of something, an image forms in your mind together with emotions or feelings. These will affect your attitude and actions. Your action taken will decide what happens to you. Or it means your action will change your life.
If your action is appropriate or acceptable, then probably you have a positive or pleasant result. For instance if you thinking about being successful, then you feel excited and confidence. You will performance better in order to be successful as planned.
Attitude is a mental position relative to a way of thinking or being. Your attitude is based on your past experiences or social learning from your environment, together with your own way about how things are supposed to be.
Whatever you do (your actions) will trigger emotions or feelings and attitude together. As I have mentioned you can control your thoughts. But you have no direct control over your feelings and attitude. So what you do is, you act your way into the feelings in the manner consistent with your action. So if you act or think as if you are already happy and successful, you will feel it inside. You give those "positiveness" into your attitude and feeelings.
If you change your thinking, you will change how you feel (feelings and attitudes). Ultimately you have the capacity to take complete control over your life.
There is this radio commercial which says something along this line: "Do you know the secret how some people become millionaires? The secret is they decided to be millionaires." Yes, they made up their mind or decided to be wealthy. Successful people choose to think differently. So, if you want to change your life starting today, change your thinking right away. [photo:jacob botter]
