Commanding Your Thoughts

“My thoughts were out of control.” “My mind was wandering.” Thoughts out of control…wandering mind…how many times does that happen to you? You begin to think about something and then something else pops into your head. Off you go. Charging after yet another thought…

Selecting Your Thoughts

It is possible to take control of your thoughts and direct them where you want them to go. That will allow you to focus on the task at hand. You’ll accomplish more. You’ll have more time in your day. Does any of that sound appealing to you?

I used to visit the Kansas City Missouri Public Library. It was a marvelous place! In the library you could find a book on all most any thing you could imagine. It is the repository of millions and millions and millions of individual thoughts. Kind of like your mind.

To take advantage of all of the stored knowledge in the library I had to choose a book. I had to select what I was going to think about for the moment. Once I made my selection I had to ignore everything else in the place.

You can do the same thing with you thoughts. Your mind is a giant library. Filled with millions of thoughts and possibilities. To take advantage of that potential you must choose one thing and ignore everything else.

The Bible says: “Whatsoever things are…think on these.” In other words, choose what you will think on.

Don’t be guilty of wandering among the stacks in the great library of your mind without choosing what you will think on. Make a choice each moment of what you will think on. When you do, you’ll take advantage of the all the wisdom available to you.

It is possible to keep your mind from wandering. You can focus your thoughts. What you chose to think about is vital to your success.

Thinking Good Thoughts

“Let a man radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions of his life.” -James Allen

Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results. This is true in the material world, it is also true in your thought life. “What a man sows…he shall also reap”

Selecting where you’ll direct your thoughts is as important as selecting the right book from the library. For it is impossible to master good things by constantly selecting base things.

You can use a personal affirmation like this; I choose this day to think only on those things that will aid me in my pursuit of success. I will deal with reality, but I refuse to dwell on negativity. I will guard my mind so that I allow only those things that perfect my character to into my thoughts.

It began to rain last night just as I climbed into bed. It has been a while since our last rain. As I laid in bed and listened to the gentle rain I realized something very important about our thought life. It was easy to control my thoughts while I was listening to the rain.

Why do you suppose it is that rain would provide a perfect back drop for good thoughts? I listened carefully. What was different? Did I have less on my mind? Have I been applying this instruction and found it easier to control my thinking? No, while all of that may be true, it was something special about the rain.

What could make the rain quiet my heart so I could think? As I listened I realized that there is something rhythmic about the sound of rain. It is the harmony of nature.

We live in a world of chaos. Our environment is filled with clamor, confusion and conflict. Very little harmony exists. Yet harmony is essential for clear thinking. The rhythm of the rain provided the perfect backdrop for clarity of thought. Nature’s perfect harmony aligned my inner self and calmed me to place where is could think easily and clearly.

Tools For Creating Harmony in Your Thoughts

How can you recreate that? Obviously we can’t wait until it rains to think clearly. It hasn’t rained here for some time so that wouldn’t be helpful. The challenge is, how do we create an environment with the harmony essential for clear thinking?

People and Your Thoughts

Have you ever worked around someone who seemed to bring out the best in you? Of course the opposite is also possible. Some people suck all of the creativity out of you. They criticize, complain and complicate everything. The people in your environment must help you to create harmony so you can think clearly.

You’re responsible for the make up of your environment. Are you spending time with someone who constantly is disrupting your environment? They suck your creativity right out of the room. They’re negative, nagging and neurotic. If that’s who you’re hanging out with, you have to change that. You can’t spend time with someone who is like that and ever expect to achieve success in life.

Music and Your Thoughts

“For many years I have observed that I could write more effectively after having participated in a song service. Prove my statement to your own satisfaction by going to church next Sunday morning and participating in the song service with all the enthusiasm at your command.” -Napoleon Hill

Interesting! Not just listening to good music, music that calms and soothes, but actually participating in the act of singing. Singing along with good music will create an environment of harmony for you. You’ll feel refreshed, revitalized and rejuvenated.

You don’t even have to be able to carry a tune. That has nothing to do with it. It is the act of singing a melody with rhythm that creates internal harmony.

Command your thoughts and change your world. Thinking on one thought at a time. Concentrating your energy to its completion. Success is yours when you control your thoughts.