Our thoughts create our reality.
So… what are you thinking about?
I know a lot of this stuff sounds a bit woo-woo.
But if you talk to the most successful people in the world, they’ll argue anything but.
Our mind holds so much power. Yet, for most of us, we let our minds run rampant. We allow thoughts to control us rather than the other way around.
I’ve been doing lots of reading recently, and the idea that our “being” creates our thoughts, which creates our reality, clicked something in my mind. Instead of wishing to “be happy,” we can just “be happy.”
When you think about it, this is what so many people try to achieve with gratitude practices and affirmations. While the mind might need a few tricks (and these can be helpful for sure), we can also step into a state of “being” that thing we want.
In many ways, we ARE our problems. And if we’ve got these problems, the hard truth (which might touch a few sore spots) is that we might actually LIKE these problems if we have them.
We’ve done things and thought things to create problems in our lives. Inevitably, this doesn’t apply to everything every which way - but it’s pretty profound when it comes to the idea of controlling our own lives and our own outcomes.
Are you insanely mad about something one of your workers did? This might sound unempathetic - but you don’t have to be.
In fact, you can CHOOSE not to be. You can opt for this as a learning lesson and adjust and be happy it happened for this reason - or not, the choice is ultimately up to us.
And yeah, this sounds exactly like “The Secret.”
But… let’s visit a few other things here: CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) uses a very similar concept but perhaps a bit more zoomed out.
I’ve heard gurus go on and on about how we create our reality - same thing.
Learning to manage our Monkey Brains is one of the biggest things we can do to not only positively impact our businesses but also our entire lives.
Onward and upwards!