Ordinary people like most of us think about things quite unconsciously, depending upon whatever thought that occupies our mind at any point of time. Mostly it is brooding about past or brooding about future uncertainties.
Only occasionally, we enjoy our present moments, when we are really excited about something.
Thus, if we are optimistic by nature, we tend to think about happy events. Otherwise, we remain preoccupied with our thoughts that are full of anxieties, bad feelings about our past events or poor or broken relationships, undesirable things happening in our life or feeling of inadequacy or helplessness, or being simply unlucky.
We remain imprisoned within our self created aura of depression and we continue to live in this way, without allowing a break in this thinking pattern, that makes us miserable and sad, most of the time.
Why do we allow this to happen to the life that keeps us ordinary and compels us to lead an ordinary life?
Why do we never pause to observe our usual thought pattern and examine it to find out the extent of negativity that we have allowed to creep into our mind, quite unconsciously over the years? It is a fact for all of us that our brain gets largely programmed in our childhood when we don’t have the wisdom to choose our thoughts by ourselves.
Have a strong purpose in life
Strangely, when we grow up and have mastered our knowledge about several aspects of our life, still we refuse to think about our own purpose in life and what is that excites us most in life that we must strive to achieve and also to have faith in our own abilities to achieve that. Thus we remain ordinary for most part of our life.
People with extraordinary mindsets have a strong purpose in life in the sense that they already know well their dreams and they know what are the things they need to chase in life so as to materialize their dreams and they have their self belief that they will win at everything they do.
Even if it means that they might fail at something that they attempt to do, they will still move on to take more chances in life where they can win.
Now I hope things are becoming more and more clear as to why we lead an ordinary life in spite of our having all the potential to become extraordinary.
Therefore all it needs is to develop that winning mindset through continuous practice and determination. But it demands that we come out of our comfort zone and try out various options. It is like trying out various keys to open a locked door that can lead us to our dream destination.
Establish new set of habits
However, to maintain our strong purpose in life and to have the self-confidence to achieve what we want in life, we need to establish a new set of habits in our daily life that support our purpose.
In case we have already developed certain wrong habits that do not serve our purpose, we have to replace such wrong habits with new ones, that will yield the results that we want. With continuous practice of such new daily habits, including our new way of thinking, we would be able to get rid of our old negative behaviors, over a period of time. This is the only way we can establish our new behavior.
It is like doing daily exercise. We would require to build muscles in our brain, so to say, the way we can build muscles in our body.
Our faith or self belief will get strengthened day by day, with such daily practice. With new thinking, that creates new space in our mind, more and more material things that we desire, will appear in our life to fill in those spaces. That is why maintaining our strong faith in our ability to accomplish seemingly impossible things which will lead us closer to our goals is so important.
After the the world war II, John Landy of Australia and Britain’s Roger Bannister vied to be the first to break the fabled mental barrier of running a mile within 4 minutes which was considered to be impossible by human beings at that point of time.
Roger Bannister did it first on May 6, 1954, and John Landy achieved the same feat only 46 days later. Once our human mind started accepting that it is really possible for us to achieve, by the end of the 20th century, the record had been lowered to the time of 3:43.13 run, by Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco in 1999.
Be ready to pay the price
Extraordinary people are able to ‘short circuit’ their mind. It is to tell their mind to ‘hold on’ and then go on to do the things that are apparently hard and difficult to do. They do whatever it takes. They go through the ‘pain’ because they know that this pain is much better for them than having the ‘pain of regret’.
This pain is the price they are ready to pay, in order to get the success that they want and deserve to have.
