| How Do Your thoughts create and control your | | | | news has been placed there. |
| circumstances? | | | | Information from the news has been placed there by |
| Can you see yourself a year from now, walking on | | | | those who want to control your thinking - they know |
| the beach - the beautiful blue ocean out before you? | | | | that your thoughts control your actions and they |
| The water is so clear you can see the fishes, all of | | | | would like you to act in a way that is in their favor. |
| them, small ones, larger ones, and some big ones. It | | | | You have to take control of the information that |
| is a wonderful day, perhaps you'll take a swim later | | | | feeds your mind. You have to examine what has |
| but now you are just taking it all in. You are here | | | | gone into your mind that is driving the decisions you |
| because a year ago you got some ideas and you | | | | are taking today and that those decisions are driving |
| immediately took action and put them to work in | | | | your tomorrow. James Allen says: |
| your business, in your life -- now you are here on the | | | | Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad |
| beach on a perfect day. | | | | results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce |
| Do you get that? | | | | good results. This is but saying that nothing can come |
| Thoughts + action taken = results | | | | from corn but corn, nothing from nettles but nettles. |
| This is the underlying theme of " As A Man Thinketh." | | | | Men understand this law in the natural world, and |
| What kinds of thoughts is your mind churning out? It | | | | work with it; but few understand it in the mental and |
| probably depends on what has gone into your head. | | | | moral world (though its operation there is just as |
| Are you hearing how business is bad and no one has | | | | simple and undeviating), and they, therefore, do not |
| a chance. Perhaps you heard it on the news or even | | | | co-operate with it. |
| from some marketer who wants to use scare tactics | | | | Could your thoughts bring such great results to your |
| and have you believe that his product is the only | | | | life? Allen also says: |
| way out of your business dilemma. | | | | The soul attracts that which it secretly harbours; that |
| The fact is the human mind is the most powerful | | | | which it loves, and also that which it fears; it reaches |
| goal seeking system on the planet. A question | | | | the height of its cherished aspirations; it falls to the |
| properly phrased, an instruction to find the answer, | | | | level of its unchastened desires,-and circumstances |
| and the understanding and underlying belief that the | | | | are the means by which the soul receives its own. |
| result will come makes it all work. In the case of the | | | | A person must come to a decision about his life that |
| news and the marketer, information was planted in | | | | he (he or she) is responsible for it. At that point he |
| you mind by someone other than yourself. In the | | | | must begin to examine his thoughts and recognize |
| case of the marketer he had in mind actions that he | | | | the powerful goal seeking system that is his mind. He |
| would like you to take. In the case of the news | | | | must look at the beliefs that would have him not |
| report, perhaps a reporters bias of the facts, or a | | | | make that extra sales call, or watch three or four |
| government agency, or something that is just wrong, | | | | hours of TV instead of looking for ways to produce |
| has skewed the report causing confusion and inaction. | | | | the income that will give him the perfect days at the |
| Think on this: it has been said that over 70% of all | | | | beach, that will insure his future. |