Your thoughts have power!(most of the time, you are the director)

‘What we think we become’ — Buddha

Thanks Buddha; I love this quote. It is pivotal that you are telling yourself the right story. It is true; our minds are an amazing tool. We each process approximately 80,000 thoughts a day, and those thoughts really do have power.

I like to use this weird analogy, which really works. Your mind is like a stage and you are the director of the events on that stage. Think about the play you want to create on that stage. The story you want to share with the audience. You will want the best actors (or thoughts) on that stage, because if you have bad actors, no one will want to buy tickets to see the play. You are the director of your mind, so you determine which actors appear. Get rid of the bad ones – accept only Oscar-winning quality.

The more you focus on something, the more power it has. And the mind loves to tell itself stories. We all love to ruminate. Think about that time your boss gave you dozens of pieces of positive feedback and one piece of ‘developmental’ feedback – and you focussed for days (maybe years) on that one piece. Why? Because it’s easier for the brain to focus on threats or negatives: it is part of our DNA.

Guess what – we are each our own thought director. The more you tell yourself great stories, focus your mind on empowering thoughts and think about what makes you rock, the more confident and empowered you will be. Where attention goes, energy flows. Say to yourself; ‘I am strong, I am confident, I am amazing, I am talented at this, I can do this’ and watch yourself ROCK it!

It is amazing how having positive, useful and empowering thoughts can change your life.

The story really matters. The more you tell yourself something, the more your brain will push those thoughts back into your limbic and hippocampus, the emotional centre of the brain which also stores long-term memory and our unconscious behaviour.

Have you ever meet someone who says ‘I am not confident’ or ‘I am never on time’? And sure enough, they are not confident and never on time. That has become their story, and in turn it has become their behaviour. By saying regularly ‘I am confident’ and ‘I am on time’, they would begin to see it in their behaviour. (By the way, I am working on the ‘on time’ thing too.)

I am focsued on the director of my mind and everytime I am about to speak on stage; I only put amazing and powerful actors on that stage. I tell myself – I have got this, I am going to rock the house, I will be inspirational and empowering and I will be the best version of me. And I do it. I can do it.

If you think you can’t; you can’t. I know absolutely you can. If I can do it, you can!