As a creative entrepreneur, you’re in the business of ideas. You love thinking of creative ideas that will serve your clients/customers, and bring more value to them. Consequently, you probably spend a lot of time thinking. So, let me ask you to step back from your busy day for a moment and honestly answer this question for yourself:
What are you always thinking about?
Now look around you and carefully observe the current results in your business, and in your whole life. Whatever results you see around you, right now – in the form of your current circumstances –is what you have been thinking about. Your current circumstances (results) are the prophecy of your past thinking fulfilled. Your results can be no greater, or less, than the source thinking behind them. If you want to change anything in your current physical reality, you must first change the seed of that reality–your thinking.
If you want to operate your business at the highest levels doing work that really matters to you and serves the world, plus be highly paid for it– you must elevate your thoughts…
If you want to be associated with the best and the brightest people– you must elevate your thoughts…
If you want to create a profitable and growing business supported by clients who love and appreciate you and your work– you must elevate your thoughts…
If you want relationships with clients, colleagues, partners, employees that are joyous, exciting, and fulfilling– you must elevate your thoughts…
If you want to experience your professional and personal life filled with endless opportunity and possibilities for continuous growth and success – you must elevate your thoughts.
The Science of Mind and Matter
Proper thinking is a more powerful and important idea for your growth and success than the warmed-over, self-help “law of attraction” cliché it may appear to sound like on the surface. Actually it’s more than an idea–it’s called the Law of Cause and Effect. In our physical world, all effects in the physical have their causes in the formless. Like gravity, this law is always “on”. Science is much closer to understanding the exact composite nature of the structures and forces involved in how mind and matter co-mingle to create “reality”. As you think, so it is. Quantum science proclaims the fundamental basis of all matter is nothing more than vibrating energy. Thoughts are energy. Your creative ideas are bundles of formless thought energy vibrating in an infinite sea of potential and possibility. I like to call this unseen substance that surrounds our existence “the goo”. As you place your thoughts, wittingly or unwittingly, into the goo, they form themselves into their physical counterparts known as your results.
It’s amazing how few creative business people are consciously aware of this truth, and its powerful impact (for the good or ill) on their business development and life success. In other words, it’s not the economy you find yourself in at the moment that determines your potential for success. Your business is a reflection of you– success or failure determined by your prevailing mental state.
It’s not simply who you know, social status, education, talent, skill, capability or a robust economy that determines success. People with the most unfavorable circumstances, with past failures of the most unbelievable nature, have come back to create massive success simply through the power to use their disciplined mind to think in a certain way. On the other hand, there are those with unbelievable advantage and resources who never seem to succeed at anything they attempt.
Author and Philosopher Raymond Holliwell, in his 1960s classic book “Working with the Law” phrases it more beautifully in poetic language:
“It is evident, therefore, that of all the factors which regulate the life and experience of man, none perhaps exercise greater influence than the ruling state of mind”.
There is nothing outside of you that controls what you think about.
You have the power to choose what you think! You decide your thoughts in each conscious moment. Your magnificent mind is an instant reality-creating machine! You create the reality you perceive through your prevailing state of mind. If you are often fearful and thinking about what is presently lacking or limited in you, you will experience exactly what you fear. On the other hand, if your prevailing state of mind is focused on the potential and opportunity that is always available for you now, despite whatever circumstances you currently “see” around you, you will in time, experience the wicked-fun reality that is congruent to your higher source thinking.
It’s essential to be aware of what dominates your state of mind, and develop the discipline to master your own consciousness. Make a daily habit of thinking more about what you truly love and aspire to, and less about what keeps you safe and secure. Through the complexities and day-to-day urgencies of running your life, hold your vision for a bigger, better future in the center of your conscious mind and believe what you desire is already ‘in the making”, even though you may currently have no idea how you will achieve it, or have any physical evidence proving it is possible.
Believe and trust in the unseen forces that govern how stuff comes out of the goo to become the physicality of your current circumstances. As a creative entrepreneur, your business and life success depends on your mastery of this fundamental skill in everything you put your mind to.
Are you satisfied with your current results?
What are you thinking about?
Go ahead, give it some thought!
