Take charge of your thoughts to create future you desire

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By SERAPHINE RULIGIRWA-KAMARA

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Summary

• If something good happens, we are quickly elated and just as quickly depressed when something upsets us.
• We are each born perfectly capable of influencing our thoughts independently of our environment - through our superior thinking abilities.
• A better way of positively influencing our thinking to improve our results is to develop and use the higher side of our personality, our intellect

It difficult to get a good grasp of this because we navigate life through our physical senses - our animalistic ability to see, hear, touch taste and smell largely form tour foundational appreciation of life. From the moment we gain consciousness, we are not only trained to take in our environment through them, we are also taught to instinctively use them to respond or react to it.

If something good happens, we are quickly elated and just as quickly depressed when something upsets us.

We find ourselves constantly riding an emotional rollercoaster based not on ours but on other people’s mindsets.

We are constantly bombarded by our environment; TV, radio, news papers activities and conversations around us that inevitably influence the choices that we make as individuals. To take charge of our lives and change our outcomes, we must pay very close attention to who and what we listen to.

Think about it; you would not ask a person who has never even floated in a bathtub to teach you how to swim in a crocodile-infested river, would you? Well if you did, you would both very quickly wind up as sumptuous meals for a few hungry crocs.

To become financially independent, we must consciously seek out and learn from those who already experience financial freedom. To become leading lights in our various fields, we must seek out and learn from the top people in our industries.

We are each born perfectly capable of influencing our thoughts independently of our environment - through our superior thinking abilities. It is our confident awareness of their existence and the proper use of these abilities that will empower us to take charge of the way we think to create the results that will yield the lives that we most desire.

Take our sight for example. That is a basic physical ability to visually take in our surroundings.

With our perception and imagination on the other hand, we all see further than they physically are available. Using our deeper abilities, it isn’t our eyes that see, it is our mindset - belief systems... and with these, we can either see the limitation or we can see the invitation and opportunity in each situation.

Rather than gather information using our basic senses leading to basic decisions and consequently basic outcomes, a better way of positively influencing our thinking to improve our results is to develop and use the higher side of our personality, our intellect.

With a deep understanding of how our minds operate and the knowledge that our thinking determines how our lives turn out. We are better-placed to create the lives that we want in our minds first before acting it out into physical form.

Again; what is it that influences your mind? Is it your basic animalistic senses or the higher side of your personality?