As a man thinks...
Posted on March 01, 2014 by Bradley Higgins, One of Thousands of Life Coaches on Noomii.
A look at coming to the realization that we need to bring our thoughts in line with who we want to be.
“If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.”
- Sidney Madwed (self-help-and-self-development.com)
Thoughts, we all have them, and whether we know it or not they define who we are, and where we are going in life. Thoughts discern our directions because they are what lead us. Subconsciously they determine our actions as a direct response to what we believe will happen given the determining set of factors that make up an event. If we believe we fail every time a certain set of events take place, then our minds will gladly direct us to make sure that what we believe will come true. However, if we believe we will win given those same set of circumstances, our minds develop and ascertain directions to take us in the route of winning.
This is really not all that complicated, even the bible points out how important what and how we think is. Philippians 4:8 says…
“Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.”
How we think is so important to our actions and responses that great men in history studied and reprogrammed themselves for years just to change small parts of themselves to how they wanted individual aspects of their lives to be. It was said that before Benjamin Franklin decided to change his thinking that men would rather cross the dirt street and clean their shoes than talk with him. This is the same man that the founding fathers looked to for his opinion on framing the constitution. (Woodward, 2011)
“All that we are is a result of what we have thought” Buddha
“I will not say I have failed one thousand times, I will say that I discovered there are one thousand ways that can cause failure” Thomas Edison
Some may think this a new concept, but for centuries God has tried to persuade men to renew their minds, their thoughts, into a more directed understanding that surpasses the limits that we set for ourselves. We are so unlimited in our potential that we have to be bridled by moral guidelines to protect us, well… from us. It is not through the lack of ability that we fail, but through our own self limitation based on lies told to us by others or the wrongly interpreted events in our past.
We as individuals need to rise up to the knowledge of who we truly are in Christ, and the unlimited potential in each and every one of us. Only then will we break the chains that we have truly placed upon ourselves.
