How Your Wonderful Mind Needs to See You Think

I don’t know if you ever got into reading the Harry Potter series of books.  For a long time, I didn’t and then my son convinced me I was missing a great story.

 

Not me I thought!  Those books are for kids!

Well, ultimately, I had an obligation to him to read the entire series of seven books.  Why…because he bought them for me as a Christmas gift!

Funny how the mind works, isn’t it? 

While in one mindset, I was not interested in or ever going to read any of the Harry Potter books…let alone seven!  But, with the flip of a switch in my mind due to what I felt was a sense of obligation, I ended up reading and enjoying all seven of the books in the series.

Here’s a quick summary of what I learned from those books. 

Harry was constantly faced with very serious challenges in his life.  Yes, the story is very gripping as it describes those challenges but that’s not really the essence of what can be learned. 

No, the Harry Potter stories are more about what Harry’s mind needed to see him think so he could overcome the challenges. 

Your story is similar in that your wonderful mind needs to see you think in particular ways, so you can be, do or have all you want in your life.

Quit looking for excuses! Stop pointing fingers! Give up on looking for scapegoats! Forget about looking for who's to blame!  It's you...PERIOD!

Your worst enemy is you!!

It's how you think and how you think is how you're going to act. If you think you've found an excuse, you will act on that excuse. If you point your finger at someone else as the problem, you will act like they are the problem.

When you think you've got a likely scapegoat, you will act like you're not at fault. If you think defeated, you'll act defeated. If you think like a victim, you are going to act like a victim. If you think you're not to blame, you will act like you're not to blame.

In every one of the foregoing examples...It's you...PERIOD!

Your worst enemy is your own thoughts. Change your thoughts and you change your life...PERIOD!

You control the master switch of your own thinking therefore you control the energy necessary to making the changes in your life that you want. You CAN flip that switch. There's only one key...having the will to do it.

Where do you get that will? It's you...PERIOD!

Nobody else is going to find it for you. Will comes from emotions. When you make an emotional connection to something that you want, you will flip the switch that will summon the will to do it.

PERIOD...It's you!

So, what is the first step you are going to take in changing your thinking and as a result changing your behaviors?  Your mind is waiting to see what you do!

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