Submitted by TreatThompson t3_zs6ela in GetMotivated
Everything gets created twice: first in our minds and then in reality.
And since the average person has 60,000 thoughts per day, that gives a lot of opportunities for decisions to be made.
It’s why thoughts form our world, and their quality determines the quality of our lives.
So if you’re always thinking negatively, then you block the potential for your mind to bring you what you want.
We can live out the glory of our imagination or let negative thoughts put boundaries in our life.
How we perceive our circumstances is also up to us. And how we end up perceiving them becomes fact.
For example, you can see your job as being amazing because of the resources and opportunities it provides you, or you can see it as inadequate because you could be making more money and afford a more extravagant lifestyle. For both scenarios, the circumstances are the same, it's the same job. The difference is the perception.
"The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the colour of your thoughts.”—Marcus Aurelius
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TreatThompson OP t1_j16ea1h wrote
It makes me think of this quote too:
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”—Anais Nin
How remarkable our lives are, is limited by how courageous we live.
The more courageous we live, the more doors we open. The more doors we open, the more we expose ourselves to life-enhancing opportunities.