Unless you live under a rock here in the USA, you most likely have heard Jennifer Garner, Samuel L. Jackson, or another famous person ask the TV audience the question, “What’s in your wallet?” For the record (1) it is none of their business what is in my wallet, and (2) I have a better question for their audience – and for you:
What’s in your Head?
I know it is hard to believe for some people, but what a person THINKS ABOUT all day, every day is much more important to his or her life than a credit card.
Years ago, I heard someone teach about two extremely important books that everyone should read. Both of them deal directly with this topic.
Earl Nightingale wrote The Strangest Secret in 1957. If you are new to learning from sources that old, please do not be fooled. Books like this that teach about Human Nature never get out of date. People are still people, regardless of the decade in which they were born.
To me, the bottom line of the book can be summed up in one quote from the book:
“You are now, and you do become, what you think about.”
So…what DO YOU think about? If you continually think about Lack, you will probably always Lack. If you think about the Bad things that your future may hold, your future will probably hold Bad things. If you worry about the possibility of getting sick, getting divorced, or getting fired…well, let’s just say your results will probably be summed up in a country song.
On the other hand, if you CHOOSE to think about all the great things that are in your life (such as your Freedom, your children, your Faith), I believe that you will be much more content with your life over time.
The second book that was mentioned was As a Man Thinketh by James Allen, which he wrote in 1903. When I read that book I learned for the first time that the main reason I was failing in my network marketing business had nothing to do with the people with whom I was speaking about my business, but rather that it was about who I was. The actual quote is, “Men do not attract what they want, but what they are.”
That meant that I needed to spend more time on developing me than on trying to master some presentation skills. I needed to focus on what I was thinking about all day. I needed to start believing that God would give me the words to say to each person at the right time, instead of worry about what the perfect words were that I needed to memorize.
In conclusion, I know that some of you are thinking something like, “Yeah, Scott, that is nice, but what about the fact that great thinking does not move the needle? It is all about Action.”
In response, allow me to pass along to you these words that are 115 years old by James Allen:
“Every action and feeling is preceded by a thought.”
Your actions will be probably be wonderful…as long as your thoughts are consistently wonderful FIRST.
What’s in your Head? You get to decide that every day for the rest of your life…starting TODAY. Make it count.
