7 Things to Think About For More Success
September 13, 2006
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One thing that completely separates successful people and sets them apart from the masses of mediocrity is the way they think. Successful people react differently to their environment than most folks in a way that gives them a distinct advantage. And the reason they react differently is because they think different thoughts.
And I’m not simply talking here about the “power of positive thinking” or some such. Though much has been said on that subject, to describe successful thought patterns as “positive” is overly simplistic and fails to capture the real difference that gives successful folks such a complete advantage.
Unfortunately for many, the idea of positive thinking is simple and appears to make sense. “If you think only positive thoughts,” this line of success coaching goes, “and push out all thoughts of negative possibilities, then you will achieve success.” And it is a good system for the folks who push this line of reasoning. Because whenever someone doesn’t actually achieve the success they anticipated with their positive thinking the coaches can always say they must have let some negative thought enter their minds. Then they can point at that as “proof” positive thinking works.
The trouble is the ways our brains work is still very much a mystery and has to date failed to be unlocked by even the most expensive technology science has yet been able to bring to bear on the challenge. The reality is our minds are much more complicated and resist being controlled by some simplistic positive thinking formula.
And that is not to say that positive thinking is at all bad. That’s not my point at all. Please don’t consider me a “positive thinking basher” or some such. All I am saying is that most of what is out there on the subject of success as it relates to positive thinking is overly simplistic and incomplete.
