English philosopher James Allen wrote: “As a man thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.” Stoic and Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote: “A man’s life is what his thoughts make of it.” Poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote: “A man is what he thinks about all day long.” Author Earl Nightingale said: “We become what we think about,” and Mark Twain wrote: “Life consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head.” We live in a world of thought.
Our thoughts create our experiences, and we experience what we think. It is the quality of our thoughts that create the quality of our life, how we lead, what we do, and the future we will create. We move in the direction of our thoughts. Is your current way of thinking giving you the results you want? Is the way you think about your employees, peers, organization, boss, family, helping you to be more, do more and give more? We have become victims of our own thoughts and can rethink and be victors from our thoughts. Our thoughts trigger emotions, and these emotions feed back into the original thought. As we continue to give mental attention to the initial thought, it strengthens the emotion, which then energizes the thought. We experience a continuous cycle of think, feel, think, feel, think, feel.
When we repeatedly engage in the same thought patterns of think, feel, do, these patterns encode a blueprint in our subconscious mind. Our subconscious mind runs 95% of our life on automation.
Our thinking holds the key to the future we want to create. You can never be any different from the quality of your thinking. Your thinking has brought you this far and your thinking will impact your today and your tomorrow. Have a great week and see you at the summit of great thinkers.
