Thoughts and Power
Happy New Year to all of you. I have vowed to make 2018 great in several areas of my life. I want to get down to my goal weight this year and it’s been FREEZING outside (although I am thankful that we do not have snow). SO, I jumped on my elliptical. Shoot me now, it is SOOOO boring but I forced myself to move until I was out of breath.
I took a break and looked over at my bookshelf. My eyes fell onto an OLD and kind of yellowed copy of a book called “The Dragon Doesn’t Live Here Anymore”. I remember it was a great book.
The page I flipped to was something I wanted to share as we start this new year. It was talking about how powerful our thoughts are. By the time we see a circumstance in our lives, we are not seeing something that just happened. We are seeing the effect of a series of events that began with a single thought long ago. Thoughts are seeds in our mind. Direct from the book:
Sow a thought, reap a word;
Sow a word, reap a deed;
Sow a deed, reap a habit;
Sow a habit, reap a character;
Sow a character, reap a Destiny.
Bottomline: we need to pay attention to what we think about. Are our thoughts positive or negative? Whatever you are thinking, you are sowing seeds to get more of the same.
Now THAT is a sobering thought!!! All I know is I am going to think POSITIVE. I guess that means I need to reevaluate my thoughts about that elliptical.
Here’s to a FANTASTIC 2018 for all!
~Debbi
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Hi Debbi
Reading your blog post here made me conscious of my thoughts, we never really wake up in the morning and think, what frame of mind will I be in today?.
Our state of mind is influenced by events occurring in our Yesterdays, positive and negative, so to consciously remind ourselves not to digress into a negative state of mind is ongoing and necessary,
So much more is achieved when we are in a positive frame of mind.
So, Debbi, stay positive in 2018 and build success.
Thanks for sharing your blog
Gary
You're exactly right. It's hard but I try to wake up every day and CHOOSE to be positive no matter what. I try to find the silver lining, however, life happens and there are days........well, you know. I do try to remember that my thoughts lead to actions lead ultimately to my destiny.
~Debbi
So true Debbi!
Our thoughts, as well as those we let others create for us, dictate our actions. They create our paradigms.
A paradigm is a multitude of ideas that are fixed in our subconscious mind that are expressed in activity without any conscious thought - they are habits - a habit is an idea that is fixed in the subconscious mind that expresses itself automatically without any conscious thought.
There's good habits and bad habits. Good habits serve you, bad habits should be worked on. Work on one or two paradigms at a time. You don't kill the paradigm, you just change the habits! You can only attract to you what vibrates in harmony with you!
It all starts with the thoughts we allow in.
Very well said. That's why it's important to be aware of the people you surround yourself with, the books you read and all other outside influences.
I hope you're doing well.
Our thoughts really, really do become "things." An excellent and insightful post, Debbi. Thank you!
All the best,
Sue
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Stunning post, Thanks Debbi.
Thanks. Seems like 2018 just started. Where did the time go?