Empower Newsletter – October 2018

‘thoughts are the key to action’

Have you ever been in a situation where you felt you couldn’t control yourself? It could have been not having that extra bit of chocolate, or not making it to the gym or maybe it was saying something inappropriate to someone or even doing something you know you shouldn’t do! I’m sure we have all done it at one time or another.

 

Lacking self-control may happen in some areas of our lives and not in others. We may be really disciplined with our exercise regime or our diet.  Maybe it comes easy to spend quality time with friends and family and generally doing what you’d said you’d do.

 

Your thoughts are the key to controlling your actions.

 

By looking at what sort of things you are thinking or saying to yourself in relation to what you currently control, you will notice there is a big difference in your thoughts and self-talk in the things you don’t seem to have the same control in.

 

For example, you may think it’s important to exercise a few times a week to maintain your health, whereas you may think it doesn’t matter if you have that extra bit of chocolate.  The difference in this scenario is that one thing is thought to be more important than the other.

 

Some thoughts that make exercising important to us may include, ‘I will feel good after it’ or ‘It will keep me looking good and healthy.’  ‘If I don’t do it, I care that I may stop doing it and then I’ll miss out on the benefits of it.’

 

Whereas eating the extra bit of chocolate may involve thoughts like, ‘one more won’t hurt me’ or ‘it will taste so nice and make me feel good.’  ‘If I have one it won’t matter, it’s only one.’

 

So if you control what you think and find a way to place more importance on the things you want to achieve, you will control what you do.  That is, you can better control the outcome.

 

By applying the same amount of willpower, drive and determination to the things you have trouble controlling you’ll get the same results in the areas you are more disciplined in.

 

Thoughts

1. The product of mental activity; that which one thinks: a body of thought.

2. A single act or product of thinking; idea or notion: to collect one’s thoughts.

3. The act or process of thinking; mental activity: thought as well as action wearies us.

 

The human mind does not care about the sort of life you lead. Its focus is your survival.  It’s always looking for the negative. It doesn’t like change, it doesn’t like uncertainty and doesn’t want risk.  Give your mind a chance, and it will make your head a terrible place to be.  So, if you don’t control what goes in, and what goes on in your mind then it will control you and life will just start happening to you.

 

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t–you’re right.” ~ Henry Ford ~

 

“If you can’t control what you think you can’t control what you do!”  ~ Unknown author ~

 

“You can control one thing and that is your thoughts.”    ~ Debesis Mridha ~

‘I consciously control my thoughts.’

 

 

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