As a Man Thinketh - The Effect of Thought on Circumstances

How Do Your thoughts create and control yournews has been placed there.
circumstances?Information from the news has been placed there by
Can you see yourself a year from now, walking onthose 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 ofwould like you to act in a way that is in their favor.
them, small ones, larger ones, and some big ones. ItYou have to take control of the information that
is a wonderful day, perhaps you'll take a swim laterfeeds your mind. You have to examine what has
but now you are just taking it all in. You are heregone into your mind that is driving the decisions you
because a year ago you got some ideas and youare taking today and that those decisions are driving
immediately took action and put them to work inyour tomorrow. James Allen says:
your business, in your life -- now you are here on theGood 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 = resultsfrom 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? Itwork 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 hassimple and undeviating), and they, therefore, do not
a chance. Perhaps you heard it on the news or evenco-operate with it.
from some marketer who wants to use scare tacticsCould your thoughts bring such great results to your
and have you believe that his product is the onlylife? 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 powerfulwhich it loves, and also that which it fears; it reaches
goal seeking system on the planet. A questionthe 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 theare the means by which the soul receives its own.
result will come makes it all work. In the case of theA person must come to a decision about his life that
news and the marketer, information was planted inhe (he or she) is responsible for it. At that point he
you mind by someone other than yourself. In themust begin to examine his thoughts and recognize
case of the marketer he had in mind actions that hethe powerful goal seeking system that is his mind. He
would like you to take. In the case of the newsmust look at the beliefs that would have him not
report, perhaps a reporters bias of the facts, or amake 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 allbeach, that will insure his future.