“People are anxious to improve their circumstances,
but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound”
(James Allen, As A Man Thinketh)
We spend hundreds of
ringgit a year for clothing, cosmetics, body products and other items to change
or improve our outward appearance but very little money or time to change our
inward condition. Many people easily spend hours a day online, going to gym,
playing games, watching series and movies but find every reason in the world
not to spend even a few minutes a day to improving their minds.
Since it is our
thoughts that determine the life we will have, you must focus on doing those
things that will change your thoughts, and nothing is more effective at changing
your thoughts than reading the right books. Charlie ‘Tremendous’ Jones writes, “You are today the same you’ll
be in five years from now, except for two things: the people you meet and the
books you read. The people you meet can’t always be with you, but what you read
in books can remain with you a lifetime. How often we hear of individuals who
began a new era in their lives from the reading of a single book.”
Are you a book reader? Why
not start a new habit today? Spend just 15 minutes every day in the morning or
before going to bed or whenever you’re most concentrate and focus. Read from a
personal development book or biography of someone you admire (ask me if you
want my book suggestions on both topics). At the end of a year you will have
read about 12 books – at the end of a five years about 60 books! Through your
changed thoughts you will have become much more like the “vision you
enthrone in your heart.”
As English writer Aldous
Huxley observed, “Every person who knows how to read has it in his power to
magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life
full, significant, and interesting.” Think about it!
THINK BIG. START
SMALL. GO DEEP.
References:
1. As A Man Thinketh (1903) by James Allen
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