You attract what you think!
“You attract what you think – Positive or Negative”. I have to say my belief about this philosophy got stronger after watching “Secret” which is a treasure of inspiration.
Just think, how many times you get asked the question “How are you?”. People often tell me it’s about 5-15 times in a day. Imagine you start with the usual/average “Fine” subconscious answer. How would your response be around lunch/tea time? Neither you nor the person asking you is excited or even paying real attention to whatever you mumble.
So I say “Fantastic!!!” at all times with lots of energy that at least 3 other people stop and turn back to see who was that…
I watched “Italian Job” today and one of the characters John Bridger – the retired safecracker talks to his associate in the heist;
John Bridger: I feel so optimistic. How do you feel?
Charlie Croker: [shrugging] I’m fine.
John Bridger: Fine? You know what “fine” stands for, don’t you?
Charlie Croker: Yeah, unfortunately.
John Bridger: Freaked out…
Charlie Croker: Insecure…
John Bridger: Neurotic…
Charlie Croker: And Emotional.
John Bridger: You see those columns behind you?
Charlie Croker: [looks behind him and sees the pillars] What about them?
John Bridger: That’s where they used to string up thieves who felt fine.
Charlie Croker: After you.
FINE – Freaked out, Insecure, Neurotic and Emotional, Oh Oh! – sure you dont want people describing you like that. See that’s what I mean when I say you attract what you think. My thinking that “FINE” is an average response to “how are you / how do you do?” scores there!
One more of my basic rule to life is “Think, Live and Act in the NOW”. As Thomas Carlyle said “Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand”. Again, I was drawn today to read Sir William Osler’s speech to a group of Yale students in the spring of 1913. He called his address “A way of Life”;
I have a message that may be helpful. It is not philosophical, nor is it striclty moral or religious…and yet in a way it ia all three. It is so simple that some of you may turn away disappointed. My message is but a word, a Way.
The way of life that I preach is a habit to be acquired gradually by long and steady repetition. It is the practice of living for the day only, and for the day’s work, living in “day-tight compartments”…The chief worries of life arise from the foolish habit of looking before and after.
A few months ago I stood on the bridge of a great liner, plowing the ocean at 25 knots. “She is alive is every plate”, said the Captain, “a huge monster with brain and nerves, an immense stomach, a wonderful heart and lungs, and a splendid system of locomotion”. Just at that moment a signal sounded, and all over the ship the water-tight compartments were closed. “Our chief factor of safety”, said the Captain.
Now each one of you is a much more marvelous organization than the great liner, and bound on a longer voyage. What I urge is that you so learn to control the machinery as to live with “day-tight compartments” as the most certain way to insure safety on the voyage. Get on the brodge ans see that at least the great bulk heads are in working order. Touch a button and hear, at every level of your life, the iron doors shutting ou the past – the dead yesterdays. Touch another and shut off, with a metal curtain, the future – the unborn tomorrows. Then you are safe, safe for today.
The load of tomorrow, added to that of yesterday, carried today makes the strongest falter…Waste of energy, mental distress, nervous worries dog the step of a man whi is anxious about the future. Shut close, then, the great fore and aft bulkheads, and prepare to cultivate the habit of a life in “day-tight compartments”!
I am simply giving you a philosophy of life that I have found helpful in my work, In this philosophy or way of life each of you may learn to drive the straight furrow, and so come to the true measure of a man.
I urge you never ever to forget Sir William’s advice: Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day’s work absorb all your interest, energy, and enthusiasm. The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today’s work superbly well.
HAPPY DIWALI!
