Pause for Thought – October

"WHAT YOU THINK IS WHAT YOU GET"

When was the last time you gave yourself the opportunity to sit in peace and spend some quality time thinking for yourself? When did you last spend serious time thinking about something that was troubling you, or about your future? Or when did you simply take time out to enjoy a pleasing and relaxing memory?

With the pace and pressure of life and work these days, we rarely give ourselves the chance to think through the issues that we face, let alone time to hear and consider how or what our partners, friends or colleagues really think. How many times have you heard someone say 'I'm so busy I don't have time to think!' or have been told 'Your trouble is you don't think'?

If we do take a rushed few minutes to think, our thinking is so affected by outside influences and our assumptions that our thoughts are not truly our own. We wonder:

What would my partner / friends / mother / father / colleagues / the dog think?

We also drag past influences and conditioning into current reality. We allow such things as our upbringing, education, training, and background (to name but a few) to influence the way we think. In doing so, we do not understand what WE really think – because we do not truly think for ourselves.
Quality thinking for a quality life
It is not what happens to us that shapes our lives but the way we THINK about what happens to us. The fact is:

THE QUALITY OF OUR THINKING DETERMINES THE QUALITY OF OUR LIVES
Or to put it another way:

WHAT WE THINK IS WHAT WE GET

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