Successes, more often than not, starts from the mindset. That is, you have to first succeed in your mind before you can succeed visibly. The ability of the mind to influence our lives is amazing, so you need to alway condition your mind to think positively. Most times, you tend to act in the line of your thoughts. So what the mind conceives for you is mostly what you see yourself acting. If you want to see greatness, then you have to start thinking it in your mind.
If you believe that you can achieve something, it will manifest in the way you act and you will eventually achieve it. However, if you have concluded within your mind that you are unable to achieve something, you will not even have the zeal to make attempts towards that thing. So you see, your success in life is principally as a result of how you have conditioned your mind to think. No wonder this quote from the Holy Book says:
As a person thinks in his heart, so he is
If you alway think greatness, then greatness will be achieved but if you think mediocrity, then greatness will be far away. If a particular thing is not working for you, instead of trying out a completely new thing, you may only need to change your mindset and you will see why it has not been working. You cannot constantly think negativities and expect a positive action from yourself. Negative thoughts have ways of incapacitating one's proclivity for positive actions.
No matter what happens and what your present situations suggest, you still have a duty to think positively. Your thoughts should not be dependent on the happenings around you but on what you want to see. If you think "yes I can", then it will become so. Positive thought is not exclusively preserved for just a particular set of people, everyone can think positively.
There is gain in having a "yes-I-can" mentality. If there is gain in it, then wisdom demands that you should do it. What most people see around them are partly created by the thoughts of their mind. I remember a particular slogan that Barack Obama used during his campaign for the United States presidency. The slogan was:
Yes we can
This phrase charted a course in his mind and directed his actions aright. We all know the end of the story - he ended up having his dreams actualized. He believed within himself that it is possible even though that was the first time a black person would achieve that kind of feat, he did not allow it to becloud his mindset negatively, then the possibility manifested. Thinking positively may not be too easy especially if the situation suggests otherwise, but it will be worth it at the end.
Great achievements have their root in the mind and you need a healthy and positive mindset to be able to conceive a positive thought which will ultimately lead to the positive actions that will bring the desired positive results. Always remember that whatever you need to make it has been delivered into you (which is in your mind), you only need to give it expression.
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