Getting My MBA at 48

Mind over Matter

It is strange where you find motivation, inspiration, I was reading Dan Brown new book The Lost Symbol so far a good read.

But I have been stressing as of late because of feeling overloaded. Today flying home from Phoenix after a really long day. I was suppose to finished early my one leg from Orange County. But I got tagged to do a Mazatlan, Mexico turn/flight. Though it was an easy flight each way it meant that instead of being home at noon I wouldn’t be home till 8:00 p.m.

Eight hours later than I would have liked and loads more stressed. I been planning on studying most of the day on Friday, that didn’t happen.

On the flight home I was reading Dan Brown’s book, and it touched thoughts I haven’t had in a long while.

From the book “Our thoughts actually interact with the physical world, whether or not we know it, effecting change all the way down to the subatomic realm.”

“That focused thought could affect literally anything, the growth rate of plants, chemical reactions in one’s own body and even more.”

“Human thoughts can literally transform the physical world.”

“The mind has the ability to alter the state of matter itself, and, more important the mind has the power to encourage the physical world to move in a specific direction.”

“We are the Masters of our own Universe.”

“We can augment it even further through practice, Intention is a learned skill that can used to focus even more.”

It is a few quotes from the book but it has got me thinking that I have been making my own reality, my own stress and my own pain. Allowing others to control my life, my direction and taking things (outside influences) personally.

I have been caught up in this and it has done the snowball effect on me, keeps getting bigger and harder to move. Once my mind had starting going that way the momentum has been hard to stop and change, but reading chapter 15 has jolted me. The hard knock I needed to change the old pattern.

But tomorrow I am changing the direction. Start reprograming my mind.

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