Making Up your Own Mind

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So many of us become our own worst enemies, when we fail to realize that we are the determining factor in what becomes of us. It is true that situations are not always to our advantage, but if things go bad it is usually because we make the wrong choices; Like which way to turn. Even worse, when we get in the habit of listening to everyone else, rather than making up our own minds. As the saying goes: As a man/Woman thinketh, so we chose our fate, destiny or whatever you want to call it. Just stop and think back to the number of times you looked to, or asked someone else's opinion; What should you do? I guess we are all guilty of that little slip; Even when we know better. I guess most people want instant results, but that is not the way it usually goes. Wrong thinking over a long period of time sets us on a wrong course, and that's the way we go. Bad Marriages, bad finances; Just a lot of little alterations, and before we know it, we are way off course; In fact, headed in a direction we did not intend. We need to make up our own minds(with nobody's help), decide what we want, and work on it, even if it does not work right away. Eventually, the sails will change to the corrected course that you desire and it will, in time, become a reality. A little quote fromt the Bible (believe it or not), says that "when two are together on one thing, it shall be!" I use to think that meant when two people agreed on one thing, but there is another way of interpreting this remark. We know that we possess two minds; One conscious, and one sub-conscious mind. Maybe, that saying meant instead, that when the conscious and sub-conscious minds agree...Makes sense to me. We deal mostly with the worldly(conscious) mind and it has the power of reasoning; To decide what is right, wrong, what we want, and all those things, but it does not run the show. It only makes decisions, but the sub-conscious mind(no power of reason), is the one at the controls, but only does what the conscious mind tell it to do. When the conscious mind makes a wrong choice, the subscious mind(like a tape recorder)goes to work, based on what the other told it. The sub-conscious mind works to create our world; To manipulate the surroundings, to bring about what the conscious mind decided, was to be. It is easy to make excuses, but ultimately, we are the culprits. We do it to ourselves(me included). We have to make up our minds, as to what direction we want to go and turn a deaf ear to everyone else's opinion. If you start to listen(doubt), your course is altered again. Just thank them for their good intentions and let them know you have already decided, then set out in your desired direction.