Today, you woke up on the wrong side of the bed. You ask yourself ‘why?’ and, unfortunately, have devised no logical reason. Bad day yesterday? Nope. Hangover? Nope. Terrible date last night? Nope. Business is going poorly? Definitely not. ‘So what is it?’ you ask.
Who gives a sh*t!. It’s Monday morning and this can go any way that you decide it will go. It’s all up to you. Your thoughts determine your outlook; your thoughts, your feelings, your outlook, your morning, and, most of all, your day.
When this happens to me, I think about my all-time favourite Dale Carnegie saying, “everyday is a new life to a wise man”. Think about how true those words are. Every day is a new life…to a wise person. It becomes pretty clear that this cold Monday morning, the morning that you wish to do anything but what you’re supposed to do, is actually in your hands; you just need to own your thoughts.
Easy right? Not so fast. How do you own your thoughts, you may ask. The first step is truly realizing and believing that the human mind – our mind – is only capable of thinking one thought at a time. How incredible is that?!
Don’t believe me? Try it out. Right now, try thinking about two things at the exact same time. You won’t be able to. Two things: your happiest moment ever, and visualize the Golden Gate Bridge. Make a meaningful attempt to think about them both at the exact same time. Take a few seconds…now, go for it!
Unless you’re an alien (still it would be debatable if you could do this), your mind wasn’t able to think about both things at once. Instead, it went back and forth from the happiest moment ever to the Golden Gate Bridge, and back.
We aren’t able to think about two things at the same exact moment.
Now, this is what I love; we’ve established that you can only think one thought at a time, therefore it is entirely and fully up to you to decide what you will choose to think about. It’s up to you. Your call. Your mind. Your thoughts. Will they own you, or will you own them?
It’s bigger than just one morning…
Thoughts become you. They shape your being. They shape your value system. They shape your smile. You are what you think about most.
Own your thoughts.
Julian Brass
Founder and Publisher, Notable.ca