The Power of Thought Part 5

If someone handed you sixty thousand dollars one morning, would you spend the day throwing fifty-five thousand of those dollars in various trash cans? Of course not. You would most likely use the money to improve and enhance your own life and the lives of those around you.

So what are you doing with the sixty thousand thoughts you think each day? Are you throwing away most of them on destructive negativity. Or are you making full use of those thoughts to improve your own life and the world in which you live?

Success has many definitions, so think for a moment about what you consider to be true success. Then think of a person who, by your own definition, is successful. Think of what you know about that person, and you’ll see that he or she possesses a certain, unmistakable power that is clearly evident. That power is the power of thought, or, more specifically, the power of positively directed thought. The people whom you consider to be successful are those people who have chosen to focus and direct their thoughts toward positive, worthy goals.

That same power is available to you. In fact you’re already using it. The life you are living right now is the result of where your thoughts have been focused in the past. Yes, of course there have been outside influences. What’s really important, though, is the way you’ve responded to those outside influences, and that is a direct result of your thoughts.

Typing characters on a computer’s keyboard does not cause words to be printed on paper — the computer’s printer, not the keyboard, does that. However, typing the characters on the keyboard determines precisely which words will be printed onto the paper. In the same way, thinking does not make it so. Your actions are what make it so. Thinking, however, directs and controls those actions. So although thinking does not, in and of itself, create anything tangible, thinking determines what does get created.

As such, there is enormous leverage associated with your thoughts. Leverage occurs when a small effort produces a large result, and nowhere is the possibility for leverage greater than with thought. A small change in thought, which takes almost no effort at all, can produce an enormous change in the quality of your life.
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