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I'm writing this article on a Friday morning. A couple of years back, I did a breakfast seminar - a short discussion on effective personal development - for a large organization in Dublin. Early on in my presentation, I mentioned that fact that I was greeted at the door by a particularly good-humoured doorman and that when I'd mentioned to him that he was in fine form, he replied "Sure, isn't it Friday!" As a throwaway remark to my audience I asked "Would he be a grumpy old man if I arrived here Monday morning?" - and everyone shouted "Yes - he would!"
Each day of the week is a day to be lived, to be savoured, to be taken on its own merits. Unfortunately, however, our normal minds interpret what's going on through a fog of completely useless thought. In fact, it's worse than useless, it is downright destructive because it prevents us from doing our very best today - whatever day of the week it happens to be - from being at our most effective, most productive and most alert to the inevitable opportunities that life holds for us today. Inevitable? Opportunities? Yes, they're all around you, but the normal person can't see them as a result of that fog I just mentioned.
Research indicates that we're bombarded by somewhere in the region of fifty thousand random thoughts every single day. Research also indicates that we're more likely, as normal adults, to dwell on negative than positive thoughts that flit through our head. The important thing is that a thought is a nothing until we dwell on it and, once we dwell on a thought, we end up dwelling in it because our useless thoughts wreak havoc in our lives. They lead us to believe that we're inadequate [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], that we're shy [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], or stupid, inept or bored, stressed or depressed. Yes, there is a long, long list of conditions that we believe we find ourselves in that are nothing more than the product of us, ourselves, of our own free will, dwelling on some niggling useless thought that gets stuck in our head.
Thought is the root of all evil. I'm not talking about the intellectual operations that we perform every day as experts in our field - whether that's driving a tractor (quite literally in our field!), analyzing a set of financial accounts, preparing the family dinner or performing brain surgery. We need our well-trained finely honed intellectual faculties to perform all the key tasks that we do each day. But research indicates that when we use these intellectual faculties we are only using the very tip of our mental iceberg and that, in fact, the greater part of our mind, our subconscious mind, is engaged in altogether more destructive activities.
Where do you think these useless thoughts of inadequacy or self-loathing come from? They don't wander in on this morning's breeze, they don't simply crop up like the random numbers on a slot machine - they drift up from the depths of our subconscious mind that was programmed by the subtle but constant conditioning of our formative years - when we literally learned our beliefs about the world and, most importantly, about ourselves. These are the truly useless thoughts - toxic and destructive they reduce the normal life to one of mindless existence because they prey on the most powerful part of your mind.
Back to where we started this article - it doesn't matter what day of the week it is, your best bet is to live it to the full. It doesn't matter who you think you are, your best bet is to be all that you truly can be. It doesn't matter how inadequate, bored, stupid [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], shy, incompetent, ugly, stressed, depressed, inept, unassertive, bullied, overworked or distracted you think you are - these are thoughts, they are not reality - and these thoughts are sapping you dry of your vital energy. If you don't like your job, it's because you think you don't like it. Years of research at the Universities of Chicago and Milan have proved that liking or disliking your job is down to state of mind. If you think you're stupid you can bet your bottom dollar that it's be