I was stock and gasping for breath. The elevator with about 2-square metre base and metal walls was air-tight and the air-conditioner was gone. Incidentally I was alone in it. I was on my way to the last floor of a 7-storey building, the office of the supervisors at the Industrial Training Fund, Abuja, Nigeria.
As I walked into the building, I discovered that only the last floor was occupied. I had the option of the elevator or the stairs. I gladly chose the elevator; it was my first opportunity to be alone in one. As the elevator approached the 7th floor, a thought flashed through my mind. I remembered a story in the news about a week before, on how about 10 persons suffocated to death when an elevated malfunctioned and got stock midway. “What if power goes off now and this elevator stops?” I didn’t take it seriously, about 5 seconds later it happened.
Beware! What you think, you attract.
That was the fastest manifestation of my thoughts, but there have been many others. Think now. How many things in your life can you identify as products of your thoughts? Just sit down and analyze it. If you are currently broke or sick or depressed or frustrated, check your thought pattern, what has been in the last few months? You attracted it.
There is no doubt about it; your present circumstances are products of your thoughts. If you keep planting mango seeds, you will keep getting mango trees. It’s just a natural law; it requires no extra effort.
Therefore, to change your life to what you desire, you change your thinking now, the earlier the better. All that I needed to prevent the elevator mishap was to change my thought immediately, in less than 5 seconds things changed
So analyze your life now, identify the things that you don’t like in your life. Then choose what you want to replace those circumstances with. Think about those better things, and keep thinking about them. The Good book says whatever good, true, lovely and pure think of these things.
As a man thinks in his mind, so he is. It’s just a matter of time, what you are passionately thinking about now will become a reality in your life.
