What's on your mind? What thoughts do you carry with you from day-to-day? These are the "fortune tellers" of your destiny. There is a law of growth written about and talked about by many of the sages in history.
WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT GROWS.
If you want to do a quick self-assessment that will help you identify either the roadblocks holding your back or validate the momentum of positive thoughts that are opening the way for your important work and meaningful life, examine what you spend your time thinking about.
In my favorite book, mentioned before, written by Emmet Fox, he captures this idea clearly for us:
"What you think upon grows. Whatever you allow to occupy your mind you magnify in your own life. Whether the subject of your thought be good or bad, the law works and the condition grows. Any subject that you keep out of your mind tends to diminish in your life, because what you do not use atrophies.
The more you think about your grievances or the injustices that you may have suffered, the more you continue to receive. The more you think of the good fortunes you have had, the more good fortune will come to you."
I have to admit that this law has worked in my life. When my heart was breaking, there was no comfort that came in re-living it---or when stress, fear, guilt have temporarily consumed me, everything only seems to grow bigger than the sky. In my darkest hours many years back, it was Viktor Frankl's message in Man's Search for Meaning that really brought this Law of Growth into view and practice. He recounted how people who survived the holocaust had a common characteristic, they rose above the misery and despair to see a positive vision of their future----a faithful belief amidst the horror that they too had something significant left to contribute. So it is with each of us. In any given situation, we have the personal freedom to choose our attitude, which in turn, helps us discover new meaning and fulfillment in our lives and work every day.
Take time to evaluate what occupies your mind. Fill it full of thoughts of the best you can imagine. Let go of thoughts of the struggles or stresses or injustices that may exist and think instead, ponder anew --- think about what could BE and align your actions to support those thoughts. I know. I know, it is not as easy as it sounds sometimes, but it is powerful and with practice you will in a short time see how positive thoughts make powerful changes in your life. It grows!
"We never know how high we are till we are called to rise; and then if we are true to plan, our statures touch the skies." --- Emily Dickinson
May your way be blessed with only the best...
Debbe
Home of Women in the Lead
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author, Putting Our Differences to Work
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and High Performance
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