I had been trying to publish a couple of things online and just could not get the programmes to work. Finally, after what felt like several hours I gave up. I sat there telling myself how stupid I was that I couldn’t make this happen when other people seemed to have no trouble, how nothing I did ever worked and how nothing ever went right for me. None of that was true of course and it was all a bit over-dramatic. I’m not stupid, most things I try do work and lots of things go right for me. But, in that moment of dissatisfaction and frustration, I had allowed my feelings to take over and my negative thoughts full rein.
Why is that a problem? It’s because thoughts create our reality. What we think and what we believe, we experience. So when I choose to go around thinking I’m stupid, can’t do anything right and have nothing but bad luck, the Universe will ensure that it provides plenty of evidence to prove me right. I’ll come up against one situation after another where I can’t see my way through, where my efforts don’t produce positive results and where nothing falls into place for me and I miss opportunities.
That’s the reason why so many gurus tell us we need to think positive. Yes, I know it’s trite and that we don’t always feel like it. But we should do it anyway. We should make positive thoughts rather than negative ones our default setting. Turn that voice in our heads from our worst critic into our own cheering section.
We should tell ourselves that we can do whatever we put our minds to, that our efforts will always produce good results, and that opportunities just fall into our laps. Because if we can do this consistently, and believe it, pretty soon that will be our reality.
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