In a book I've been reading recently, 'The Magic of Thinking Big', it states that your actions can dictate your thought process. At first, it took me aback because as a rational and analytical person I felt that the inverse was true: you thought, then acted. However, the more I thought about it, the more sense it made and made me rethink how I go about situations.
The example the book gave was affection. If a man performs affectionate actions, it won't take long for that person to feel affectionate. Likewise, if a person performs actions that are attributed to confidence (good posture, smiling, shaking hands firm, etc.), it doesn't take long for that person to feel confident.
Faith is an action word. If you tailor your actions in the direction you want to be, you're setting up your mentality when it actually happens. That's why people aspiring to be leaders and executives wear slacks, suits, and ties; they're performing the action and thus preparing their minds for WHEN they receive a promotion or are put into leadership. They feel comfortable because they've been tailoring their actions and mental process to what they had faith in getting.
Whatever you're aspiring to do, tailor your actions to that task and let your mind follow.
do not confuse the chicken with the egg. the egg always comes first. you are right in your assumption that the thought comes first. think of an begining basketball player, he wants to be good, but he does not even know how to dribble. he works on the the fundamentals and becomes proficient and good at all of them. they become second nature to him. he is so focused on this craft, people see the mental and the physical are in unison. he does things without thinking about it, it appears. under a magician's hat, he made something magical happen.
ReplyDeleteall this started out as a thought. the thought had a goal, a projected end, and a method to acheive the goal. all that was really done, he programmed himself what he wanted to become. his actions caught up to his thoughts.
convince yourself on good character and practice the fundamentals and the results will be...+