Half the game is 90% mental. Yogi Berra

If I could paraphrase Yogi, Half of life is 90% mental! In fact, Zig Ziglar says that most of our problems come from what he terms, Stinking thinking. Success and personal fulfillment hinge on whats going on inside your brain.  

What we think we eventually become because our future is constantly impacted by what we are thinking today. So, if we want to succeed in the future, we have to control the dominating thoughts of today.
 

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Mary Engelbreit

Researchers say that more than 75% of the information that comes into your brain is negative. Theyve even calculated that before the average child turns eighteen that they will hear no 148,000 times from their parents! No wonder our thoughts have a tendency to be negative. Day after day, year after year, compounding like interest, the negatives have been deposited into your mind and its doing damage. This negative thinking programs us to have negative beliefs, and beliefs create attitudes, attitudes create feelings, feelings create actions, and actions create results.

For instance, if a child has been told he is a troublemaker, that belief gets stored in his mind, takes root, and his attitudes begin to reflect that troublemaker tag. Soon that negative attitude will create hostile feelings, and those feelings will produce actions negative actions which will reinforce the belief that this kid is a troublemaker!
 

Thoughts are incredibly powerful. Just look around the room where you are sitting, everything you see began as a thought in someones mind everything! If we let negative thoughts take root, soon they will begin to create a future we may not want to live in!

I used to say, 'I sure hope things will change.' Then I learned that the only way things are going to change for me is when I change. Jim Rohn

What can you do? Willfully, purposefully, and resolutely determine to take control of your thinking! If most of the stuff that comes into your mind is negative, youve got to counteract that with a generous amount of positive thoughts. Your brain doesnt differentiate between what is positive and what is negative. If youve been told you are dumb a thousand times, and that youre smart one hundred times, when the pressure is on and you need self-confidence your brain will do the calculation and say, Youre right, you are dumb. Does that mean you are? NO! It means that the negative in your brain is greater than the positive, thats all. And you can change it!

The ideals that have lighted my way and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty and Truth. Albert Einstein

Stay far away from negative thoughts and influences, the things that cloud your mind and reinforce an inferior view of yourself and others. Instead focus your mind on positive, worthwhile, and valuable things.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, he will achieve. Napoleon Hill  

If you will change your thinking you can override heredity, genes, DNA, and any negative environment. You dont have to spend the rest of your life being dominated by negativity you can be positive and happy and successful and victorious if youll change the way you think.

Fix your thoughts on what is true and honorable and right. Think about things that are pure and lovely and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise and the God of peace will be with you. (Holy Bible, Philippians 4:8-9)