Guard your thoughts at all cost, because your thoughts will eventually become your life.

Let me briefly explain.  

Every action that you take is preceded by a thought.  Your dominant thoughts determine your dominant actions, and your dominant actions determine your life.  From this we can plainly see that your dominant thoughts determine your life.

What you ponder, you become; be it pleasant or distasteful….What you ponder, you will grow to love; what you harbor in your head, you will discover how to get in your hand.

You will eventually eat from the bitter or sweet fruit that your thoughts have produced.

Take Control of Your Thoughts

If you have not yet taken control over your thoughts, you have not yet taken control over your life.  If your thoughts are free to roam as they please, then your life will roam like a ship without a captain on the high seas of life.

You must take the helm as the captain of your thoughts in order to control your life.  The only way to control your life is to control your thoughts. 

Thoughts Have Babies

Thoughts of poverty will lead to poverty, thoughts of sickness will lead to sickness, and thoughts of despair will lead to despair. 

Likewise, thoughts of prosperity will lead to prosperity, thoughts of success will lead to success, and thoughts of victory will lead to victory.

Someone might say, “I’m unable to control my thoughts.  If a thought comes, …it comes.”  To that I say, you may not be able to stop a bird from flying over your head, but you can certainly prevent it from building a nest in your hair.

You must extinguish negative thoughts immediately, put out that small flame in a moment, with just a breath; if you don’t, that tiny flame will become an uncontrollable raging fire, …and you will be both its creator and its victim.

If a thought comes to you that is not in alignment with where you want your life to go, just as it came, let it go.  Don’t ponder on it, don’t consider it, don’t analyze it, simply re-direct your thoughts to the direction that you wish to travel. 

Consciously anchor yourself on thoughts of success, happiness and freedom.  Pre-determine what these thoughts will be.

Control Your Life

You can control your life, and you should.

Most people control their car, but not they’re life.  Just as you turn the steering wheel and determine where your car ends up, you have the ability to turn your thoughts and determine where your life ends up.

Decide where you want to go in this lifetime, and then give your thoughts over to it.  Ponder it when you wake, and just before you go to sleep, eventually this you will become.  Just as sure as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, your tomorrow will eventually be birth from today’s thoughts.

Shape your thoughts like the potter shapes the clay.  Guard your thoughts, like the soldier guards his country.

Each thought either liberates you or binds you.  Each thought takes you closer to your goal or further away.

Your Mind is a Fertile Garden

Your mind is indeed a garden, and the question is, “What are you planting in the garden of your mind?” 

You don’t have to tell me what you’re planting in your garden; I can look at your life and see the fruits that have been planted.  If you’ve planted seeds of prosperity or poverty, I can see it.  If you’ve planted seeds of laziness or discipline, I can see it.  If you’ve planted seeds of procrastination or action, I can see it.

And if you’ve chosen not to consciously plant anything in your garden, I can see that too.

Your Mind Will Be Programmed

What happens to those who choose not to consciously program their minds?  Their mind gets programmed by the media, and by the  limiting beliefs of their friends, families and associates.  This type of programming is almost always negative and causes one to think and live beneath their capabilities.

If you choose not to consciously plant the proper seeds in the garden of your mind, your garden will be eligible to be infiltrated with weed seeds; weed seeds are never good.  Weeds will even choke the positive seeds that you’ve planted, so it’s vital to guard against these weeds, and even to consciously uproot these weeds, before the time of the harvest.

Your Life

Your life is the sum total of the thoughts that you have “chosen” to give you attention to.  Positive focus, produces positive results, negative focus, produces negative results.  This means that that nothing can come from corn, but corn, nothing from wheat, but wheat.

In Closing

The world is your oyster.  This oyster is controlled by your thoughts, those thoughts are controlled by you.  You determine where your ship ends up on this journey of life.

So where will you go?  You are free to go as you please.  I suggest that you travel in the direction of victory, in the direction of your dreams, in the direction of your destiny.

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