What is one of the most contagious thing we as humans have to live with everyday of our lives?... oh no its not the common cold, ice cream nor is any sort of reality TV show!!
Someone once said that “once it has taken hold of the brain its almost impossible to eradicate”……What could I possibly be talking about?
Can you guess yet? - Well… lets go deeper.
Characteristics:
• It can form at an instant, at anytime, with life changing magnitude
• It is usually represented by images and words
• It needs to be understood before it gains its full power to captivate and infect others
• It grows with knowledge
• Time is a variable and not constant in its case
• No one person is immune to it
• It can blind your rationality
• It has the power to make you the most successful person on the globe
As a young child it was through this period we become most susceptible to it. In fact as some of us grew older we became more conservative, in a way we lost the purity, possibly due to external influences we were bombarded with. What if there a way in which we could get it back?
There is!!…All it takes is a little bit of effort and desire!
Sometimes I wonder; which I’m sure most of you do, why we all differ in terms of our quality of life. Yes I agree that environment plays a huge part in ‘survival of the fittest’ nevertheless, how is it possible to hear about success stories where one day a person has nothing then the next they have everything their heart desires?
Philosopher David Hume once said, “In choosing the means to those ends, they shall follow their accustomed associations of ideas. Hume has contended and defended the notion that "reason alone is merely the 'slave of the passions”. According to Hume we have the choice to choose the end to our means.
So from this view point, if the topic of today is all about what the dictionary defines as; a thought or suggestion as to a possible course of action, a mental impression or indeed the feeling that something is probable or possible then why wouldn’t you choose the better ideas you create in your mind.
For example I get much feedback every week from you guys and therefore some of you can relate when I ask you why would you choose to work in a place you don’t really desire to be in instead of putting that extra effort in to carry out the idea you have of your dream job, or the idea you have of your dream house, your dream lifestyle etc. I implore you today to ask yourself “of all these IDEAS that infect my mind EVERYDAY and of all the IDEAS that will progress me further towards my goals in life which ones have I actually executed”.
A wise man once said, “an idea is powerless to manifest if not understood entirely” (Goodman 1985)
Believe me when I say a positive infectious idea that could change your life is the best ‘disease’ to ever have. Just look at what his has done for the world we live in today. I was told once that I should always “beware the ‘emperor who is proud of his new clothes simply because the salesman tells him he should be”. We live in a society where control is overtaking our freedom to have IDEAS…have your own IDEAS try not to let others and society infect you with theirs.
Have a blissful week
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