Thank you 4Networking for giving me the opportunity to talk to the lovely Cambridge group this morning! I know I stepped in at the last moment, so I didn’t get much notice, but actually this was perfect, as it didn’t give me a chance to ‘think’ about why I shouldn’t, couldn’t or wouldn’t do it. I found myself just saying ‘yes’, which I’ve found recently is the best way of just doing things rather than thinking about doing things.
And don’t we do that? Think, I mean. We think a lot. We think too much. I was once told that by my doctor after I was diagnosied with bowel cancer. “That’s your real problem, Helen, you think too much”. Not a very useful comment, I thought at the time, but it has made me ‘think’ (there I go again!) about thinking, and how it can get in our way. The only thing we have to change to alter the reality of our lives is our thinking. That must be true, because if you want to see the sum total of your reality (your life as it is now), just look around you. At your life and what and who is in it. You attracted that, you ‘thought’ that. Its a tough one, but guess what, if you thought it, you can unthink it. At least that’s what I’m playing with at the moment. Playing with changing the way I think (or believe) about people, situations, things, or my reality. Its a lot of fun and it is giving some amazing results.
Example of this is a couple of months ago I needed a new car. My daughter had had a nasty accident and had written off our little Clio. I had the thought that I’d like to get a better car for less money than the written off car was worth. Just for a laugh, I also added that I’d like to get £100 in the same week that I bought the car, just by changing my thinking that it would be possible to get £100 for no reason at all. Result? I bought a newer, better Clio with less mileage, full warranty for £500 less than the value of the old car. Just before we signed the deal, the salesman asked me if there was anything else I’d like to ask or query. I said I thought the tyres were a bit worn & would he be able to do anything about that. He said, sorry, can’t do anything about the tyres, but how about I give you another £100 on top of the value of the old car! I just looked at him and started smiling inside. He had no idea why I was smiling so much, but you can probably guess!
Not sure how I got on the subject, as I started off thanking 4Networking for putting me on the spot. Perhaps I need more of ‘being put on the spot’, and having less time to think, and just take action.
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It’s what you think about that is important, not the act of thinking itself. However, because many a time our thoughts are not any good, isn’t it good that we don’t put them into action?
Then, there’s the old saying “think before you act”. We mean this because what we do may not be good, and thinking beforehand allows us to decide whether to go ahead with that bad thought or to discard it. Whether we replace it with a good one is another matter, altogher.
Perhaps what you have been saying, Helen, is that we all suffer from “paralysis from analysis”. Particularly when we know what is right, we know we ought to do it, but we are still afraid to do so. Having said this, those who never suffer from “paralysis from analysis” may suffer instead from fanaticism and from walking where angels fear to tread.