You Get What You Think About

When you think about your future, what picture do you see? Do you have hope, faith and belief that no matter what you have to face, go through, experience you will always be able to handle it?

Or do you see it as hopeless, with dread, and that things will never change for you?

How do you cope with adversity? How well do you go through the ups and downs of the human experience? How do you handle life challenges and pitfalls? Because it’s all determined by how you answer those questions, fuelled by your beliefs.

You move toward (and become) what you think about, and your present thoughts are determining your future.

As humans, you and I are goal orientated by nature, and we think in pictures. If I were to say to you pink elephant – you wouldn’t see the text pink or elephant – you would picture an image of a pink elephant.

Silly picture?

Is it though? Only because you have already made and have an association, understanding and interpretation of the colour pink. You have given it the meaning it has for you, based on what you were taught, you know ‘pink’ because someone said to ‘this is the colour pink’.

You don’t see with your eyes, in order to see, there must be light.

Light reflects off an object (and if you’re looking at it) — the light enters the eye. Eventually the light is focused, converted into electrical chemical signals and then delivered to the brain where what you’ve seen is decoded and interpreted.

That decoding and interpretation and the image you see will all depend on how you have been conditioned to translate the light, and give what you have seen a meaning for you.

Words create vivid pictures, and you are always drawn towards the pictures in your mind.

Have you ever heard the saying, ‘I am giving everything I see all the meaning that it has for me’?

Another way of saying that – you are interpreting, placing value and meaning on what you are looking at.

If you see the world (and your future) as hopeless, cruel, non compassionate, unloving, and you keep telling yourself, ‘It’s just the way it is and nothing is ever going to change’ … your brain will search and find for you all the evidence and proof you need to back up those beliefs you have, based on your past conditioning and experience.

You will be drawn and bring towards you a hopeless, cruel, non compassionate, unloving experience … you are creating it because that’s your interpretation of the world you see.

Eventually, you will have sought out so much so called truth that you can’t do anything but believe it.

This is called self-fulfilling prophecy,

‘I knew it was going to be a bad day as soon as I woke up this morning’. Guess what? A bad day. You move towards what you think about. Your thoughts are creating your reality. You’re getting the picture you asked for.

‘There is no way that I will be ever able to change career’. Guess what? Nope. No way. Not until you change the picture. And it sometimes doesn’t take much to shift it, in fact sometimes we aren’t even aware of the moments of change. 

‘I hate cold calling so much, it’s never successful’. Guess what? It never is. Unless it’s a day when you actually don’t hate too much. Funny that. 

You get what you think about, you get your interpretation

You can create more positive, inspiring, self-fulfilling prophesies. If you see the world as hopeful, loving, compassionate, empowering – and you are contributing to it – you will start to see more of it happening all around you.

What do you believe though? Do you think it’s just as easy to see the opportunities and possibilities around you as it is the horror?

Whatever you think about, your brain will start to find proof, that you will begin to observe it all around you. Most of us want the proof first.

You are drawn to what you are thinking about. How do you switch from one belief system to another? How do you set positive intentions for yourself instead of negative? How? Set the intention of the world you want to see and the pictures you want to be dominant. Declare it.

When you see (interpretation) pictures that are destroying your confidence, esteem, growth, potential and efficacy, question the picture. What you see can only ever be interpreted by you.

Take a look around your life, when someone pays you a compliment, what do you see? A genuine word, or someone wanting something? When success happens for you, what do you see? Congratulating yourself, or telling yourself it’ll never last?

Take Away/To Do

Words create vivid pictures, and you are always drawn towards the pictures in your mind. What words are you using to create positive, inspiring, confident and fearless pictures?