If you want to change, try changing your mind's default page!
Your mind is the most powerful tool you possess, yet it can be the most detrimental. How you use it determines the choices you make, both good and bad. Where you are today is because of it, and your future will be determined by it. Your environment, experiences, and the people with whom you associate will be its influences.
As a child, I used to hear the phrase “mind over matter”, but I didn’t understand what it meant until I was older. It took a few lessons to learn that my willpower could conquer my circumstances. If I was determined to change bad habits, the direction of my life, wrong thinking, or to conquer the hardest of obstacles, I had to choose to exercise my mind over my matter.
My mother took the time to make this point. She told my brother and me that if we ever went to jail because we were doing what everyone else was doing or because someone told us to do something ridiculous, she would leave us there. She was only making a point to say we’d better think for ourselves. Oh, but that scared me half to death! My mother was as sweet as pie, and in hindsight, I can’t imagine that she would have actually left my brother or me in jail, but at that moment, I thought she would. One thing for sure, she influenced our thinking.
QUESTION
What one lesson were you taught as a child that still influences your thinking today?
Excerpts from "WOW! I Needed to Know THAT" Valerie D. Johnson, Author
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