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"As a Man Thinketh In His Heart - So He Is"

There was once a young man who had a nervous breakdown brought on by worry. The student told Dale Carnegie, who recounted the tale in his book How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, that he worried about everything. He worried about his weight. He worried about his hair. He worried about money. He worried about being a father. He worried about losing the girl he wanted to marry. He worried about what others thought about him. He worried that he had ulcers. Eventually, his worry made it impossible for him to work. So he gave up his job. Tension grew strong and powerful within him. Finally, it was too much. Something had to give, and that was when he had his breakdown.

The young man said he was in such bad shape that he couldn’t even talk to his family. He avoided everyone and cried a lot. He considered ending it all, but instead decided to go to Florida to see if a change would help him. When he got on the train, his father handed him a letter and told him not to open it until he reached his destination. He arrived in Florida and tried to get a job to no avail. He got a sleeping room in a garage and spent his time hanging out on the beach. In short, he was even more miserable in Florida than he had been at home.

Finally, he opened the letter from his father and here’s what it said: “Son, you are 1,500 miles from home, and you don’t feel any different, do you? I knew you wouldn’t because you took with you the one thing that is the cause of all your trouble, that is, yourself. There is nothing wrong with either your body or your mind. It is not the situations you have met that have thrown you; it is what you think of these situations. ‘As a man thinketh in his heart, so he is.’ When you realize that son, come home, for you will be cured.”

At first the young man was angry with his father for his lack of empathy for his situation, but after some reflection he realized his father was right. It was not the world that needed to change; it was merely the lens of his mind that needed adjustment. 

You have the power to adjust the lens of your mind - how are you going to do it today?

We are interested in gathering stories on how you changed your thoughts in the past and the positive impact they had on your life…
 

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