Last month was one of the worst of my life. I got a D in a class. Now I know this is not earth-shattering, but this is a first for me and an experience that I do not want to repeat.
Was this an unusually difficult class? NO!
Was I pressed for time and resources? NO!
Was I in some way handicapped and hindered from getting a decent grade? NO!
Then why did this happen? Because I chose to blow off this class. I did not consciously choose this, but by my thoughts and feelings I produced the actions that chose this abysmal grade.
What does this have to do with my money mind? More than you might know. Napoleon Hill tells us in Think and Grow Rich, "Thoughts become things".
I believe this and believe that my state of mind had a direct effect upon my actions that shaped my final grade. I made the choices that I did and this is the outcome.
Now I have not been sitting here typing this tale of woe just to get a little sympathy. OK, maybe just a little, but I want something more. I want to make my declaration for change, and it has to begin on the inside. It begins in my thoughts and feelings, for those are the leaders to my actions. Nothing just happens, everything has a cause and if I want my world filled with wonder and abundance, I have to get my money mind in check.
Sunday, January 4, 2009
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It is true you can lose focus so easily, and you fall behind before you know it. I myself found out making the transtion from one year's thinking to another is not easy. To believe I am what I thougth - Wow. And to realize I have to chose to "Think and grow Rich" or i chose to think "myself poor"-what a concept. In some ways I too chose fail a class or two last year; I think if we are all honest we've all had a blow off moment or two by the end of the year:I sure did. With all the "good news" about the finacial markets, credit issues, changes in govenment and life in general how could we not have "blown off" thing. Yes,I failed my class of life last semester, and unlike you had to take the grade:though unwanted, chosen. So like you,I had to make the decision comming into my new semester to retrain my thougths. You know, just like all those New Years resolutions of old:to lose that extra 10 pounds,to restructure finaces,or to be that better person, I had to take a hard look at my thoughts. To re-look at those thoguhts,and feelings i felt was someone elses issue or couldn't happen or become. Then I had to decide to "chose'to began to speak somethign else,what I wanted. I to had to come the place of doing the homework and going after the "passing grade" I wanted instead of the one I deserved. I had to bury it, to begain the process of burial; teh burial of poor mans thoughts to ebrace the my new mind "attitute" with zeal. It is funny what happens in life that causes our minds to have to shift isn't it. Thanks Money Minded Mommy for you truth and insight.
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