The Power of Thought
The Power of thought is incredible. The power of thought is a
mother of success.
If you
decide to really achieve something in your life - you will. It is all a matter
of how you think about yourself and what you think you are capable of. The
power of positive thinking is incredible.
Fortunate
for the human race we are able to control our thoughts. We can use our mind and
practice the process of thinking. We can make ourselves think thoughts of what
we want to be or have.
We have to be aware of our thoughts and have attitude like
following in thought:
We
can choose to think as an optimist and have a positive view on life. We can
choose steps of positive thinking or we can choose to think as a pessimist.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty" - Winston Churchill
Consider the following quote
Wattch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they becom habits
Watch your habits; they become character
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny
Analysis of this quote
of the ancient
Chinese philosopher, Lao-Tze (meaning “Old Master”).
“Watch your thoughts; they become words”: Every word that comes out of our mouth comes from a
thought – whether consciously or unconsciously. A happy, kind thought precedes
happy, kind words. And vice versa, if our thoughts are less than desirable,
then somewhere along the thought process, we must’ve kindled matching thoughts.
“Watch your words;
they become actions”: Our tone of voice and body language
instinctively follow the words we’re saying (unless you’ve credible acting
skills) – whether sweet or sour – they
follow the thought we have bundled behind our words.
“Watch your actions;
they become habits”: All of the habits we have were
created by the actions we choose to take over and over again. Habits can be
changed when we begin to take different actions which will form positive habits.
“Watch your habits; they become your character”: This is the set of qualities that distinguish us from
one another – the way other people see us. They can’t feel our feelings or
think our thoughts (maybe a soul mate can) – they only hear our words, see our
actions and habits that define who we are and what we stand for.
“Watch your character;
it becomes your destiny”: Our destiny – our reality – our
world. Each of us has a unique perception of the world we live in. This is to
an extent because we’ve created it – by our past thoughts. Take the example of
the glass being half full or half empty – the point of view is unique to one’s
interpretation of reality.
Though we may desire our future to be different to our past and
present – many of us don’t
achieve our goals because we’re stuck in a chronic
cycle of “doing
the same things over and over and expecting different results”. If we keep
doing what we’ve always done, will we not get what we’ve always got?
To complement this in
the words of another sagacious thinker, Aristotle:
“Excellence, then, is not an act but a
habit”
Mahatma
Gandhi
“Your beliefs become
your thoughts,
Your thoughts become your words,
Your words become your actions,
Your actions become your habits,
Your habits become your values,
Your values
become your
destiny.”
“A man
is but the product of his thoughts - what he thinks, he becomes. “
― Mahatma Gandhi
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