I would like to ask two questions: “What really dominates your day? Have you ever thought of the fact that certain things may dominate your day yet they are neither helpful to you, nor to anyone else?” These are issues you seldom think about yet they control your entire day. Many people go through life without stopping to consider these fundamental questions in their thoughts so as to really understand their own relevance to society and to themselves. At the end of the day, these people feel very tired and think they have been doing wonderful things. According to the theory of Positive Thinking, normal people are supposed to have fewer positive thoughts running through their minds than in abnormal people. A person who is mentally abnormal has so many useless ideas passing through his mind on a daily basis. The more a person is mentally sick, the more he is bombarded by very many useless thoughts which will dominate his entire day. Today it is common to see mad people on the run, either speaking to themselves, or actively getting involved in some useless activities. Such people can have as many as 500 ideas passing through their minds everyday. At the end of the day, they will be very tired. There is a classical example to illustrate positive thinking. One person is walking along the road and wants to cross over to the other side, but soon realizes that a group of children are also trapped on his side. He beckons to the children to follow him; looks to the left and then to the right and to the left again before he finally crosses with the children. Such a situation is typical of a person engaged in positive thinking. Any thought resulting in a charitable action is considered positive. Charitable means that the action resulting from such thinking will be of help to someone else. Mediocrity has been known to have a domineering effect on people. It generates its own type of alluring intensity that ends up controlling people. It can influence all areas of your life if you let it. This is the message in the saying that “some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle.” I know a certain man who was addicted to newspapers. He used to buy the two most popular dailies and would read them from page one to the last page, one paper at a time. He read local news, court cases, editorials, foreign news, market reports, news analyses, advertisements, obituaries and crowned it all with sports news. By the time he finished reading in the evening, he would go back to his house a very tired man. That is an example of allowing something not productive to dominate your day. Mediocrity will always acquire its own life and the more you nurse it the more it becomes bigger and more domineering. A fruitful life is not an accident but a result of making the right choices on a daily basis. We must choose to be decisive rather than indifferent; choose to be better than bitter; choose to say ‘get up’ rather than ‘give up’; choose to strive to obtain rather than complain; choose to stand out rather than blend in; you can also choose determination rather than discouragement. To know that you are on the right path, examine what dominates your mind the whole day and find out what benefits it brings to you, or to someone else. Do not try to occupy your mind with so many things that do not make sense because that will indicate the state of your mental health. The fact is that there are too many people, in too much of a hurry, going to various directions but trying to get nowhere. Without focus, you will not have peace. Paul writes in Philippians 3:13-14 “This one thing I do….. I press toward the mark,” What you set your heart on will determine how you will spend the rest of your life. When you try to be everywhere at the same time you will get nowhere. Someone once said “Losers have variety, but champions take pride in just learning how to hit that winning ball.” May we realize that the quickest way to do many things is to do one thing at a time. redplan20002001@yahoo.com
