In my book MAXI-MIND, I mentioned the cow pasture that I crossed every school day on the way to the bus. It had droppings everywhere, old and new, and the biggest daisies by far grew in the more mature clumps of manure. Now there's a choice; do we focus on the manure, or on the daisies? Which we choose will determine what we find when we examine the world around us. Both are there - but one choice is clearly a happier one.
You see, the world is the world. It is what it is. But YOUR WORLD, the world around you, is a collection of things that you have either attracted or tolerated. Most of it is never noticed by you at all - it is just too complex. So the things you notice are the things that your ATTITUDE interacts with.
There's a great word - ATTITUDE. To a pilot, the attitude of a plane is the angle it makes with the ground - with the horizon. Tilt the plane, and you change the attitude.
Well, your attitude is the angle of your awareness to the ground of external reality, and to the ground of your inner being. Tilt one way, and life sucks, and so do you. Tilt the other way, and life is great, and so are you. The ground, both inside and outside, doesn't change - but you do - from daisies to dung. Each one is a potential symbol of your inner attitude.
There are always more daisies than you can possibly notice. So you can tilt away, more and more, and there are always more to be revealed. The world around you has no practical limits.
Attitude leads to choices –- choices are thoughts – thought are things.
Things are the feedback that tell you how your choices are working.
So if you keep on thinking what you’ve been thinking – you’ll keep on getting more of what you’ve already got. And if that’s OK, great – but if it’s not, then CHANGE YOUR THINKING AND CHANGE YOUR LIFE!
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