Rein in your mind to get positive outcomes

The thoughts that we hold in our conscious mind and have an emotional charge. PHOTO | FOTOSEARCH 

By SERAPHINE RULIGIRWA-KAMARA

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Summary

• We must endeavour to rein in our minds and direct our thinking towards what we want rather than what we do not want.

Growing up, most children had a list of kids that their mothers did not want them associating with.

Our mothers knew then as we hopefully know today that all our achievements, conditions and
situations are resultant effects of how we think (or not).

We are constantly thinking of the outcomes that we eventually experience even when we are not aware of it. This is the reason why we must endeavour to rein in our minds and direct our thinking towards what we want rather than what we do not want.

You see; negative thoughts feel bad and attract negative energy all around us. These feelings are expressed in our body through the actions or inactions that we are engaged. Our actions or inactions result in outcomes one way or another. To know what our minds are focused on, all we need to do is take a look at our outcomes.

Results don’t lie.

If you take a good look around you, you’ll note that those who lack confidence, are fearful and always worried are rarely on the northern side of performance and achievement.

If we are to change our situations we have got to start inside. We must first change the ideas and notions that we entertain. When we change what is on the inside, our thoughts, we automatically change what is on the outside - our outcomes and situations.

The thoughts that we hold in our conscious mind and have an emotional charge and if even slightly entertained, are delivered into our subconscious mind.

Whether they are positive or negative when they are emotionalised, these thoughts impress themselves upon our subconscious mind. Many of us mistakenly dismiss the subconscious as the backwaters of our thinking.

This could not be further from the truth. It is the subconscious mind which dictates our feelings and emotions. Our feelings and emotions then direct us to physically act or not act to create the outcomes that we experience as our lives.

We all know what to do to get better results, we have just allowed ourselves to entertain ideas that have over time set up roadblocks in our subconscious minds, which prevent us from taking the necessary actions to achieve what we want.

The missing link to our achievement lies in the gap between what we know and what we actually do or fail to do.

Whatever our current outcomes, we must bear in mind that they are not a reflection of our potential. Our situations are nothing more than a reflection of our previous thinking.

We have been so conditioned to respond to our world through these senses, that when praised, we feel good and yet in the next moment if we are criticised or put down, we can instantly feel terrible.

What an emotional roller-coaster we allow ourselves to ride all the way to average lives! When seriously considering changing our lives we must be careful cherry-pick who we listen to because they contribute to the thoughts that we entertain.

If it is financial independence that we seek, we have got to learn at the feet of those who are financially free.

To become the voices of authority in our various fields, we must learn from the top performers in our fields.

We have to be sure not to entertain advice from family, friends, co-workers who are not achieving, living or breathing the results in their lives that we seek. We are the sum total of the company we keep because they influence our thinking.