{"id":124,"date":"2011-05-21T09:45:51","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T21:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wisdomhealthprosperity.com\/selfimprovementmastery\/?p=124"},"modified":"2011-05-21T09:45:51","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T21:45:51","slug":"changing-your-life-and-the-curse-of-useless-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wisdomhealthprosperity.com\/selfimprovementmastery\/changing-your-life-and-the-curse-of-useless-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing Your Life And The Curse Of Useless Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- Easy AdSense V2.99 -->\n<!-- Post[count: 1] -->\n<div class=\"ezAdsense adsense adsense-leadin\" style=\"float:right;margin:12px;\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-8279754544979895\";\r\n\/* self improve3 *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"2464079329\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 250;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script><\/div>\n<!-- Easy AdSense V2.99 -->\n\n<p>I have been holding <a href='http:\/\/www.gurdy.net' target='_blank'>Personal Development Seminars<\/a> for nearly sixteen years and even now, after all that time working on my own mind, I get out of bed some mornings niggled by stupid thoughts \u2013 or the little rascals come hunting for me as the day progresses, when I least expect them.   However,  I really should expect it because, sadly, the adult human appears to be  intent on confounding our desire to do our best during the course of our everyday lives.<\/p>\n<p>Over seven decades of  study in the field of <a href='http:\/\/www.gurdy.net' target='_blank'>psychology<\/a> tells us that the average mind is bordering on a a hand grenade.   And you need look no further than your workplace, your football or golf club or the local paper for all the evidence to validate all that scholarly research \u2013 to say nothing of what you\u2019ll find going on on the world stage!   Normal crazed people are forever misbehaving themselves and they seem unable to stop it.   Of course, if you take all the research as a given, we are unable to stop it \u2013 because our minds are pre-programmed to pay previous little attention to reality and plenty of attention to all the nonsense that simply isn\u2019t going on at all.  If we go looking for a culprit, the useless thoughts in our head would be the prime suspect.<\/p>\n<p>We are plagued by approximately fifty-thousand random thoughts each day \u2013 and that\u2019s while we\u2019re awake, so we\u2019re not even looking at a full twenty four hours.   Many of these thoughts are simply silly \u2013 like \u2018I wish I was out playing golf or lying on a sun-chair than stuck at this boring meeting\u2019 \u2013 thinking that you\u2019d like to be somewhere else won\u2019t change the fact of where you are!   However, quite a few of our random thoughts are a little more dangerous.   I\u2019ve no doubt that you\u2019ve got your own list but here are a couple examples of those toxic thoughts.  \u2018I\u2019m so shy I\u2019ll never be able to talk to her\/him.\u2019 (Delete as appropriate!!)    \u2018I would like to be more assertive and not let people get the better of me.\u2019  \u2018I\u2019m never going to get that job.\u2019   \u2018I\u2019ll be happy when I\u2019m three stone lighter.\u2019   <\/p>\n<p>The issue with these thoughts is that, first of all, they confirm that, if <a href='http:\/\/www.gurdy.net' target='_blank'>your life is not-too-bad<\/a>, that\u2019s good enough.  It isn\u2019t!    The second problem is that this type of thinking enables (and that\u2019s clearly the wrong word) your subconscious mind to pay attention to all the nonsense that it learned about you when you were young and impressionable.   These are the things \u2013 and don\u2019t forget that the mind has a habit of tending towards the negative \u2013 that you currently believe to be true.   They are the things that are holding you back.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t misunderstand me.  Your mind will never stop being plagued by useless thoughts \u2013 as I\u2019ve said, that\u2019s the way we\u2019ve been built.  But you can decide whether or not you will pay this nonsense any attention.  You must realize that you have a very real alternative to wasting your time, or your life on all that garbage \u2013 you could decide to devote your attention to the reality of the here and now.   And, if that reality involves enduring that mind-numbing meeting, you could find that paying more attention to what\u2019s going on might make you that bit more efficient, more productive and happier \u2013 the things that most of us search for from life.<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwisdomhealthprosperity.com%2Fselfimprovementmastery%2Fchanging-your-life-and-the-curse-of-useless-thought%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container\"><div class=\"a2a_kit addtoany_list\"><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/wisdomhealthprosperity.com\/selfimprovementmastery\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_256_24.png\" width=\"256\" height=\"24\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nvar a2a_config = a2a_config || {};\na2a_config.linkname=\"Changing Your Life And The Curse Of Useless Thought\";\na2a_config.linkurl=\"http:\/\/wisdomhealthprosperity.com\/selfimprovementmastery\/changing-your-life-and-the-curse-of-useless-thought\/\";\na2a_config.onclick=1;\na2a_config.show_title=1;\n\/\/--><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/static.addtoany.com\/menu\/page.js\"><\/script>\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been holding Personal Development Seminars for nearly sixteen years and even now, after all that time working on my own mind, I get out of bed some mornings niggled by stupid thoughts \u2013 or the little rascals come &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/wisdomhealthprosperity.com\/selfimprovementmastery\/changing-your-life-and-the-curse-of-useless-thought\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container\"><div class=\"a2a_kit addtoany_list\"><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/wisdomhealthprosperity.com\/selfimprovementmastery\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_256_24.png\" width=\"256\" height=\"24\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\na2a_config.linkname=\"Changing Your Life And The Curse Of Useless Thought\";\na2a_config.linkurl=\"http:\/\/wisdomhealthprosperity.com\/selfimprovementmastery\/changing-your-life-and-the-curse-of-useless-thought\/\";\na2a.init('page');\n\/\/--><\/script>\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1263,1265,1264,1271,1273,498,269,1272,1260,1258,1259,48,461,337,1044,1267,1270,1266,1874,1268,1262,1261,64,1257,1269],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-self-improvement","tag-adult-human","tag-changing-your-life","tag-couple-examples","tag-culprit","tag-curse","tag-everyday-lives","tag-focus-your-mind","tag-golf-club","tag-hand-grenade","tag-limiting-beliefs","tag-little-rascals","tag-no-doubt","tag-personal-development","tag-personal-development-seminars","tag-playing-golf","tag-prime-suspect","tag-random-thoughts","tag-scholarly-research","tag-self-improvement","tag-sixteen-years","tag-stupid-thoughts","tag-sun-chair","tag-twenty-four-hours","tag-useless-thought","tag-world-stage"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wisdomhealthprosperity.com\/selfimprovementmastery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wisdomhealthprosperity.com\/selfimprovementmastery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wisdomhealthprosperity.com\/selfimprovementmastery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wisdomhealthprosperity.com\/selfimprovementmastery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wisdomhealthprosperity.com\/selfimprovementmastery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/wisdomhealthprosperity.com\/selfimprovementmastery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wisdomhealthprosperity.com\/selfimprovementmastery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wisdomhealthprosperity.com\/selfimprovementmastery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wisdomhealthprosperity.com\/selfimprovementmastery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}