Change your perceptions, change your results.
Jason September 22nd, 2006
Let’s start with a very basic (but crucially important) concept here: What you think about becomes real. The more you think about it, the more of it you receive. Your thoughts create it, and bring it to you. The more energy and focus you apply to the thought, the more intense the effect.
So here’s the idea: What about our simple perceptions and observations about the world around us? Do these casual observations have the same effect?
The moment that an observation or perception is made by any of us, it becomes a thought, thus it becomes an act of creation, just like any other thought. The more you reinforce that same observation, the more it becomes a habit, or a general attitude. You’re creating, or drawing to you, exactly what you’re thinking about. So, whatever that perception that you hold of that person/place/thing/idea, the more it becomes that for you.
I meet so many people who want more money, but have a negative attitude about it, or about those who have it. So, before you start blaming your circumstances or the past fruits (or lack of fruits) of your labors for your current situation, check what your perception or ideas about money are. Or, your perceptions about what you’re doing in order to fulfill your goal of more money. Maybe they need altering.
Think of it this way… When you get around someone that has a gripe with you, resentment, or otherwise just plain doesn’t like you, you can tell, right? Most of us can. You just know that person, for whatever reason, just isn’t feeling your vibe. And, chances are, you looked for a way to move on to another situation, relationship, or just another part of the room as quickly as reasonably possible.
Positive attracts, negative repels. If you have an issue with money, then you’re sending out conscious or unconscious signals that you have a negative attitude about money. Thus, money is looking to get to the other side of the room as soon as it can.
Altering your perceptions to improve and attract positive results applies in every aspect of life. I frequently implement this with relationships (people) and situations. For instance, when dealing with “difficult” people, or strained relationships, I regularly experience very rapid transformations in how others respond by altering my perception of them. I choose not to observe the aspects of the person/situation that might be less-than-agreeable to me, and focus on the positive. I believe that by doing this, you’re actually creating two things: You’re bringing out what you feel is the best in that person or situation (if they’re open to it, of course), and you’re also strenghtening the element of that perception that is reflected in you. In other words, you help to improve the person/situation while simultaneously improving yourself!
Of course, this requires a certain amount of mental and emotional discipline until it becomes a habit. But it’s the discipline, which translates to character, which translates to positive results, that makes it worth it.