Self Improvement Made Easy

You’re being swamped by useless thought and you many not even be aware of it! Whilst the normal adult is bombarded by around fifty-thousand thoughts each day, it is also true to say that the average adult is largely unaware of anything that is going on in his or her life. Wow – that’s a big statement!. You may think it couldn’t be true, certainly it comes as news to you. Be that as it may, research that started in 1936 and is still being built upon proves conclusively that normal people are only one percent aware – they are only one percent in the present moment. More than that, the greater part of your mental power, your subconscious mind, is generally focused in your past – a time long-gone in which you were actually aware, were actually present and were not bombarded by useless thought.

Of course, you are aware of the odd useless thought that whizzes through your head – thoughts like “I can’t stand my job” (this has nothing to do with your job, it has to do with what you think about it!) “I wish I was out on playing tennis” (a thought that’s a complete waste of your energy if you’re in the middle of a client meeting!) “I feel inadequate talking to this person” (a thought linked to your perceived inadequacy as a normal adult, nothing to do with the other person). You might also be aware of one of the most corrosive forms of useless thought – the curse of worry. But there are the deeper, darker thoughts that skulk in the subconscious – these you believe to be hard facts. All our perceived weaknesses, all the things that we may not like about ourselves, all our shortcomings are no more than thoughts based on things that made us feel a certain way about ourselves during our formative years. They are dangerously toxic thoughts.

Useless thought presents us with three big headaches! Firstly, it distracts us from doing what we should actually be doing – to the extent that we only one percent do it! We’re not going to get much out of life if we haven’t bothered to turn up for the event!! Secondly, useless thought presents us with a familiar, habitual way of going through or, perhaps even, coping with our daily life. It’s a habit that we’re so used to that we’re not aware of it. Thirdly, useless thought prevents you progressing towards the life that you really want. Go on thinking useless thought and you will never change your life. We can all achieve whatever we believe that we can achieve – but if our resident useless thoughts are up against us, how will we ever believe?

You’ve got to break the cycle of useless thought. This is most effectively done by stopping yourself from having irrelevant, simple useless thoughts. Example! You’re walking down the street and a nice car drives past. That’s cool – but you should then walk on and pay attention to whatever happens next. But, you might say to yourself “That car is better than mine!” That’s a useless thought – it has nothing to do with the reality of the moment (the only time and place there is!). And it gives rise to other useless thoughts: “I wish I had a nicer car!” “I couldn’t afford a new car!” “I cannot afford a vacation either!” “What if I can’t keep making my home loan repayments!” Useless thoughts take normal adults down alleys and mug them all the time. It’s part of the way we are as normal adults. But we have to break the cycle of useless thought, if we don’t we will continue to live habitual mundane lives. Is that your life’s objective?