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“For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he,” according to Scripture. Not religious? It doesn’t matter. It’s still true. We behave, perform and become what we think about. Heady stuff, literally.
Have you ever been in a great mood, but you allowed somebody – anybody (even somebody who means nothing to you) – to send you in a tailspin with the slightest comment? Sure. We’ve all done that. Why?
Because we’re often more fragile than we’d like to admit. Feeling good about ourselves is not nearly as easy as we’d like it to be. It takes work. Sadly, too many people don’t give it the effort it deserves.
So, we plod along each day. We lumber through our day just trying to get by – hoping for the end to come soon. The end of our work day. The end of our chores. The end of the daily tyranny, whatever form it takes.
And if somebody or something isn’t imposing tyranny on us, we’re busy imposing it on ourselves. We often defeat terrific ideas because we never get them out of our head. They’re defeated quickly by our fears, or other feelings that destroy us, choke our initiative and make us feel lousy.
Yogi Berra was onto something when he said, “Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.” So is success!
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