What you think you create. If you reflect often on how well you’re doing in a category of your life like relationships, you will attract more of it. Consider this anecdote, I am improving my personal relationships with family. This is a thought, and nobody has a clear understanding of what that means except me. My level of improvement is likely different from yours, but growth is progress. Because I am thinking about my relationships improving, I am thinking about how they are improving: through quality time, doing nice things for the people I love, speaking good words to them, hugging them, and giving them gifts. Because I am reflecting, I am able to come up with novel ideas related to the other nice things we’ve done together and so see more improvement, and now it’s a cycle of improvement.
This cycle represents what you think you create. Because I am thinking about my relationships improving, they are improving! If I were to focus on the opposite, the opposite would happen. So! It is important to guard your thinking as it is the fountain of your experience. Think loving, happy thoughts because your actions and experience stem from it.
Can we have loving, happy thoughts about our financial situation as well? Of course! Abundance is wealth in categories like love for family/friends/partner, health, finances, and social status. We can have wealth in all of these categories. So happy, loving thoughts about finances is not warm and fuzzy nice things we do for each other in relationship, but instead is thinking about what you are doing right financially. Some examples of healthy financial thinking are: my income is growing, my hard work produces benefits for my company and therefore me, I am creating value and the world pays for value, my money works for me through stock or other investing options so that I earn while I sleep. Let’s piece the first thought and take it apart. If you think, “my income is growing”, you will reflect on what you did to earn your last raise or pay increase through changing jobs or however your income is growing. You might think of what it took to get you to that increase and decide to replicate the steps to get you to the next increase. For example, if you decided to work extra hard on a project to produce a great result so you could pitch to your manager that you deserve a raise, then you could do the same thing in the future after raising the stakes. You might also think of how others are increasing their income and balance it on your personal strategy so that you see a result similar in your financial life. Either way, you are creating more future wealth by thinking your income is growing.
So, what you are thinking can create abundance in what you’re doing whether that’s financially, in relationship, or otherwise. To visit some of the logic of why this is, I present the following statements. The mind is a muscle, and the more you train it to think a certain way the more likely you are to revisit that thought. Pair this with the fact that creativity is an extension of what you are thinking (i.e. you can think of what to eat after thinking about being hungry), and you find that thoughts are like seeds and the more you give them time and attention the larger they grow and blossom.
“A great many years ago, I purchased a fine dictionary. The first thing I did with it was to turn to the word ‘impossible,’ and neatly clip it out of the book. That would not be an unwise thing for you to do.” - Napoleon Hill
What you think you create! Create wealth; health!