So I was listening to this influential, religious man, discuss with other panelists on his TV show and he was explaining and emphasizing the power of positive thinking. In his explanation, he says your thoughts are very powerful. What you think and meditate on daily becomes your reality. He went on to explain your thoughts being a force or an energy of a sort that attracts into your life the things you mostly think about. Everyone on the show got excited about his concept and he went on to link it to positive confessions. He said if you think positive thoughts and back it up with positive confessions, you will eventually experience that, which you’ve thought about and confessed.
Errrrn, wrong, it is not true! I’ve heard this ideology thought and preached by many people in several places and I’ve seen the audience get excited about it, but sorry to burst your bubble, it is not the complete truth. That is not how it works.
Many people perhaps quickly accept and adopt this way of visualizing life because it is absolutely convenient and relives one of intense work and responsibilities. Truth is you do not experience what you think and confess, you experience what you labour to chase, apprehend and hold on to.
Frankly speaking, I cannot sit in my house every day, and keep thinking I’m a billionaire and keep confessing I’m a billionaire, I’m a billionaire and just because I’ve thought about it hard enough and confessing it every day for a whole year, billions will suddenly show up in my bank account. It does not work that way. This concept of thinking and becoming, if not well explained is suspicious, fraudulent and misleading.
I mean lets apply common sense to this, I cannot tell my daughter who wants to become a medical doctor to sit in the house and keep thinking she’s one and confessing it daily and we’d just hope that after regular and intense confession for five to ten years, she would be qualified to take the oath and begin to practice medicine, No way!
Oh, I’ve seen many people, so many people misunderstand the power of positive thinking and confession. My dear friend, the popular saying that “As a man thinks in his heart, so is he”, is a formula, not an answer or a solution.
A formula is a method or procedure for achieving an answer, a formula is not an answer to anything. If a formula is a method or a procedure, then it requires a set of actions from you, it requires you follow the procedure in order for it to deliver the results expected.
Memorizing a formula, quoting a formula, confessing a formula will never give you the answer no matter how correctly you know it and have written it down, until and unless you key in the essential values required for the formula to deliver the answer to the problem or sum. No sane teacher will score you excellent for writing down a formula without applying it to solving the problem.
As a man thinks is a formula in life, hence you need to key in the right values in the right order for you to obtain correct answers in the areas where you want your thoughts to manifest as reality.
You see, between when you engage positive thoughts and you eventually experience your positive expectations, there is a process and some values you must reckon with and apply. What are these values you need to key into the positive thinking formula? I’ll tell you.
Number 1. A well-defined and clearly stated expectation. – What exactly you want and expect must be clearly known and identified. I want a car is not a clear positive expectation, I want a BMW X6, 2015 model, Black in color, leather seats, America spec, is a well-defined, clearly stated positive expectation.
Number 2. The right attitude. The right attitude is the way you mentally and psychologically respond and react to what you expect. If you want this car, BMW X6, in your mind it should become impossible to see or find another car appealing no matter how exciting, attractive, compelling and affordable. You will focus entirely on that which you want and that which you do not want will exit your mental and life space.
The right behaviors. If you really want something, there are certain things you must DO, to get what you think. Knowing exactly what you want and shunning the ones you do not want amounts to nothing if you’re unwilling to work and labor and pursue that which you want. So if you want this BMW X6, it is not a cheap car, you must be willing to work hard, earn the required amount that can pay for the car. The kind of effort and labour required to buy this model of a car off the shelf is not cheap, easy or commonplace, so your behavior towards buying this car, should not be regular, as usual, or as common.
The right sacrifices. – In life you must give something to get something. Sacrifice is the master key to access. Opportunity cost must apply. For example, you may have to give up several hours of sleep to invest more hours in work so as to raise the money. You may also have to suspend regular investment in clothing, leisure, travels, and even savings in order to buy the car. A vital value in this thinking and becoming formula is sacrifice.
The right priorities. To obtain what you’re thinking about positively, you must set and get your priorities right. You must focus and do the right things, not what is convenient, common or exciting. To obtain the funds to buy this car in question, hard work is not enough, valuable work is the key. You must be doing something, working somewhere, offering a product or service that returns sufficient money to make the car affordable. You don’t invest time and energy working on what you like, what is easy or what you enjoy doing, you spend time and energy working on what people are willing to pay good money for. Do the right work, not just hard work.
The right association. To enjoy collective positive energy that attracts what you want into your life, you must associate and regularly mingle with people with your kind of dreams and expectations. You can’t be around people who will mock your desires, dreams and ambition because they underrate you or perhaps don’t think much of themselves either. If you want to buy an X6 BMW, be wise to keep company with people who want to own such a car or even private jets. Their influence and positive energy will be unbelievable. The right association is a vital value you must key into your thinking and becoming formula.
Ladies and gentlemen, do not be deceived, a man does not eventually become what he thinks about, neither does he become what he confesses. You become what you think about, what you’re clear about, what you focus on, what you develop the right attitude for; what you labor adequately and correctly for, make sacrifices for, make priority of and seek the right association for.
These are the vital values you must key into the thinking and becoming formula for it to be real in your life. Enough of the subtle deception and half-truths.
Enough of these ideologies that promote indolence and unrealistic desires and ambition. If you want anything, if you want to become anything, beyond thinking and confessing, you must apply yourself, apply your mind, apply your time, apply your skills, competence, knowledge and capacity, you must apply all that is needed to earn it. Life is not magic, life is a reality. As a man thinketh, so is he? Rethink this in reality and within context. The letter killeth. The spirit giveth life.
Errrrn, wrong, it is not true! I’ve heard this ideology thought and preached by many people in several places and I’ve seen the audience get excited about it, but sorry to burst your bubble, it is not the complete truth. That is not how it works.
Many people perhaps quickly accept and adopt this way of visualizing life because it is absolutely convenient and relives one of intense work and responsibilities. Truth is you do not experience what you think and confess, you experience what you labour to chase, apprehend and hold on to.
Frankly speaking, I cannot sit in my house every day, and keep thinking I’m a billionaire and keep confessing I’m a billionaire, I’m a billionaire and just because I’ve thought about it hard enough and confessing it every day for a whole year, billions will suddenly show up in my bank account. It does not work that way. This concept of thinking and becoming, if not well explained is suspicious, fraudulent and misleading.
I mean lets apply common sense to this, I cannot tell my daughter who wants to become a medical doctor to sit in the house and keep thinking she’s one and confessing it daily and we’d just hope that after regular and intense confession for five to ten years, she would be qualified to take the oath and begin to practice medicine, No way!
Oh, I’ve seen many people, so many people misunderstand the power of positive thinking and confession. My dear friend, the popular saying that “As a man thinks in his heart, so is he”, is a formula, not an answer or a solution.
A formula is a method or procedure for achieving an answer, a formula is not an answer to anything. If a formula is a method or a procedure, then it requires a set of actions from you, it requires you follow the procedure in order for it to deliver the results expected.
Memorizing a formula, quoting a formula, confessing a formula will never give you the answer no matter how correctly you know it and have written it down, until and unless you key in the essential values required for the formula to deliver the answer to the problem or sum. No sane teacher will score you excellent for writing down a formula without applying it to solving the problem.
As a man thinks is a formula in life, hence you need to key in the right values in the right order for you to obtain correct answers in the areas where you want your thoughts to manifest as reality.
You see, between when you engage positive thoughts and you eventually experience your positive expectations, there is a process and some values you must reckon with and apply. What are these values you need to key into the positive thinking formula? I’ll tell you.
Number 1. A well-defined and clearly stated expectation. – What exactly you want and expect must be clearly known and identified. I want a car is not a clear positive expectation, I want a BMW X6, 2015 model, Black in color, leather seats, America spec, is a well-defined, clearly stated positive expectation.
Number 2. The right attitude. The right attitude is the way you mentally and psychologically respond and react to what you expect. If you want this car, BMW X6, in your mind it should become impossible to see or find another car appealing no matter how exciting, attractive, compelling and affordable. You will focus entirely on that which you want and that which you do not want will exit your mental and life space.
The right behaviors. If you really want something, there are certain things you must DO, to get what you think. Knowing exactly what you want and shunning the ones you do not want amounts to nothing if you’re unwilling to work and labor and pursue that which you want. So if you want this BMW X6, it is not a cheap car, you must be willing to work hard, earn the required amount that can pay for the car. The kind of effort and labour required to buy this model of a car off the shelf is not cheap, easy or commonplace, so your behavior towards buying this car, should not be regular, as usual, or as common.
The right sacrifices. – In life you must give something to get something. Sacrifice is the master key to access. Opportunity cost must apply. For example, you may have to give up several hours of sleep to invest more hours in work so as to raise the money. You may also have to suspend regular investment in clothing, leisure, travels, and even savings in order to buy the car. A vital value in this thinking and becoming formula is sacrifice.
The right priorities. To obtain what you’re thinking about positively, you must set and get your priorities right. You must focus and do the right things, not what is convenient, common or exciting. To obtain the funds to buy this car in question, hard work is not enough, valuable work is the key. You must be doing something, working somewhere, offering a product or service that returns sufficient money to make the car affordable. You don’t invest time and energy working on what you like, what is easy or what you enjoy doing, you spend time and energy working on what people are willing to pay good money for. Do the right work, not just hard work.
The right association. To enjoy collective positive energy that attracts what you want into your life, you must associate and regularly mingle with people with your kind of dreams and expectations. You can’t be around people who will mock your desires, dreams and ambition because they underrate you or perhaps don’t think much of themselves either. If you want to buy an X6 BMW, be wise to keep company with people who want to own such a car or even private jets. Their influence and positive energy will be unbelievable. The right association is a vital value you must key into your thinking and becoming formula.
Ladies and gentlemen, do not be deceived, a man does not eventually become what he thinks about, neither does he become what he confesses. You become what you think about, what you’re clear about, what you focus on, what you develop the right attitude for; what you labor adequately and correctly for, make sacrifices for, make priority of and seek the right association for.
These are the vital values you must key into the thinking and becoming formula for it to be real in your life. Enough of the subtle deception and half-truths.
Enough of these ideologies that promote indolence and unrealistic desires and ambition. If you want anything, if you want to become anything, beyond thinking and confessing, you must apply yourself, apply your mind, apply your time, apply your skills, competence, knowledge and capacity, you must apply all that is needed to earn it. Life is not magic, life is a reality. As a man thinketh, so is he? Rethink this in reality and within context. The letter killeth. The spirit giveth life.
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