Ask any personal development coach and they will probably tell you that success is a function of one’s thoughts and attitude. There are a few basics of life that define your quality of life. The truth is that you will never be able to master every aspect of life, life is just too short to master every aspect of the wheel of life. Concentrate on the fundamentals - the essential few.
Most of us tend to underrate the power of positive thinking. You become what you think all the time. What goes inside your mind faculties are thoughts. Thoughts are projected to the outside world as attitudes. It is not what you own that makes you happy, but how you think about your situation. It is your attitude that makes you take or not take action on situations. We win by showing a winning attitude to difficult situations.
What you have, who you are today, is a result of your past choices. What you will have, who you will be, or what you will do in the future, will be determined by the choices you make today. What you are doing right now is laying the groundwork for your future. Isn’t this enough reason to be careful with our choices? You receive what you give out. This is the law of nature. No one can cheat the law of nature. If you do not achieve good results, blame it on the brains of the person you see in the mirror. Yes, the person standing in your shoes right now is the architect of your results, however good or bad. The results that you have experienced in your lifetime up to this moment have been created by your thoughts and attitude.
The reason why some of us do not achieve good results is that we present ourselves with situations far too low. Too many of us do less than we should, and as a result, we are less than we should be. We allow ourselves to wander too far afield from our purpose by the way we think and respond to situations. We undervalue our importance in the world. It is sad that we blame others for our own mediocrity. We sabotage the very purpose for which we were created. The famed novelist, Robert Byrne asserted wisely, “. . . the purpose of life is life of purpose.”
The world makes room for a man, a woman, and a child with a purpose. All of us, individually, are born with the ability to think ingeniously, provide solutions to situations, and achieve goals. Our purpose on earth is to solve problems. Your assignment is to decipher the type of problems that you were created to solve. Were you created to solve problems in academics, politics, commerce, the medical field, pastoral space, aviation, information technology, or agriculture? Poor results beckon a person who chickens out from solving problems. Good results, be it at work, at home, at school, in politics, or in relationships are abundant for and to one, who works on situations with a positive attitude. Professor Robert Seashore wrote, “. . . the happiest people are not the people without problems, they are the people, who know how to solve their problems.”
Do not run away from problems. Embrace them. Problems are there to grade your level of success. The bigger the problems, the more the rewards, the higher the success, the merrier the happiness. The high powers created you for a purpose. You are not just an extra person on this planet. You matter. “There is no person who is hopeless,” asserted Nobel award winner, Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, Desmond Tutu. You are not in the world for a holiday or vacation. No. You are in the world on a specific mission, a specific purpose. Define your mission. Most people fail, not because they do not have mastery, but because they lack purpose. As W. Clement Stone put it, “. . .when you discover your mission, you will feel its demand.” When you know the purpose for which you were created, the whole world conspires to help you achieve your goal. What is your mission? Remember, a ship without a rudder cannot chart a course.
We all have plans and ideas about how to go about our lives. The difference between those who are successful and those who live on the margin of success is how they think. Success builds positive thoughts. They develop pictures of what they want to have, be, and do. They know their chief purpose and are on a mission to achieve it. Have you ever noticed that people, who think positive thoughts are happy with their lives and in life? Good things come to them easily and effortlessly. Jim Rohn said, “. . . what the mind conceives, man can achieve.”
Do not sit on your laurels. Every second, minute, hour, and day of your life is important. Do not waste it. Develop a positive attitude. Be positive, also in difficult situations. Ask yourself; ‘what can I do to make this situation different?’ You have the power to change difficult situations into success. It depends on how you use it. Act on situations if you are to become better, do better, and have a better life. The high powers distributed ingredients of success and happiness to all of us in equal proportions. You have yours, she has hers, he has his, and I have mine. It is your attitude that will make you a success or live on the margin of success. You are the chief architect of your success. If you fail, it is your own making. The principle of abundance tells us that there is enough for each one of us. The key lies in finding and applying the right mentality to situations. As celebrated author, Tim Ferris, noted, “ . . . success, however you define it, is achievable if you collect the right field-tested beliefs and habits.” Gospel truth. Achievement of success is akin to baking a cake. There are specific special ingredients that a baker must use, lest he ends up with scones. You do not have to look far to get the right ingredients for success. It slumbers within you. It is buried right inside you. It is already inside you. Look no further than your mind. In case you did not know, you have the power that you have been looking for. The power you seek out there is within you and readily available to use. It is tapped latently in your thoughts and attitude. Change your thoughts and attitude, and you will see success knocking on your door. What the pioneer of personal mastery movement, James Allen, said many decades ago is still valid today, “Act is the blossom of thought; joy and suffering are its fruits; thus does a man garner in the sweet and bitter fruitage of his own husbandry.” You become what you think. The power is with and within you. The Swahili have an expression - wewe ni mwenyewe.
Lester Chinyang’anya | General Manager – Operations | Minet Malawi
Comments
Post a Comment