So, I was reading this book called The Laws of Success in 16 Lessons this morning and
this one quote really struck me.
He said, failures let their thoughts run wild.
Let's talk about that.
So this has lots of different applications.
I learned about the first time I learned about thinking and thoughts and how your thoughts
affect your reality or how your thoughts affect your actions.
The first time I learned about this was from a book called Reality Transurfing and in that
book it was basically talking about how your thoughts affect your world and your perception
of reality actually affects the way you experience it and the way that reality happens to you.
So it not only affects the way you experience it, just from how you interpret things, you
could be having objectively the same experience as another person yet having a far worse or
far better experience than them just because of your perception, but it also affects the
way that reality happens to you.
So I learned that your thoughts actually affect the way events play out in the world.
So that's the first time I learned about thoughts and I learned that you could get drawn into
the game of a pendulum, which a pendulum is basically an energetic source or some sort
that tries to keep you absorbed in its game and it tries to get your thought energy to
be aligned to it.
So it tries to get you to think about that thing.
So some common pendulums are TikTok, YouTube, getting in arguments with other people, school,
college, social media, like literally anything is a pendulum.
I'm a pendulum, you're a pendulum.
So if you're thinking about a specific person, you're attuned to that pendulum.
And so if you're attuned to a pendulum that is destructive and actually all pendulums
are destructive, if you're attuned to a pendulum that is destructive, which is any pendulum,
then that means that you're giving it your energy and you're actually changing your own
thoughts and your thoughts are affecting your own reality.
But there are some pendulums that are your pendulums.
They still are destructive, but the trade-off is actually beneficial to you because you
benefit from it in some way.
For example, the gym is my pendulum.
I benefit from going to the gym.
I benefit from lifting weights.
So that trade-off is worthwhile for me.
Another pendulum that is beneficial to me is this YouTube channel or this podcast, depending
on where you're listening this from.
And the thing is that you have to be aware that you're giving specific things your energy.
You have to be aware what you're feeding your energy to.
And if you're not aware, you're playing a very dangerous game.
You are playing the game of swimming into a whirlpool in the middle of the ocean.
You will get caught in that whirlpool and you will end up in a very bad situation.
And so going back to the quote of failures, let their thoughts run wild.
In Transurfing terms, that is essentially failures allow their thoughts to run wild
on their own and they allow themselves to get caught up in the whirlpool of a pendulum
and they allow themselves to get swallowed up in the middle of the ocean.
That is a failure.
If you get consumed in emotion or an argument and you're consumed in anger or any emotion,
you're consumed so much you're so unaware that you're taken off into a different direction
in life, then that is a failure.
And then I learned in a book that I talked about in the beginning of this episode called
The Laws of Success in 16 Lessons by Napoleon Hill, one of the laws of success is self-control.
And in that lesson, he talked about how self-control is solely a matter of thought control.
So if self-control is a law of success, if you must have self-control, you must have
self-control in order to achieve success.
And self-control is solely a matter of thought control.
Well then that means you must control your thoughts in order to achieve success.
So the quote of failures allow their thoughts to run wild holds true because failures don't
control their thoughts.
So you must control your thoughts in order to have self-control and you must have self-control
in order to see success.
Now what is self-control?
Self-control is when you're in an heated argument and you hold your emotions, you are aware,
you're conscious and you feel yourself bubbling up, boiling up in the inside, but you hold
yourself controlled and you stay calm and tranquil.
That is self-control.
Self-control is maintaining awareness in the middle of an argument.
Self-control is sending positive emotions back at someone who is sending you negative
emotions.
So if someone walks up to you on the street and they're pissed off at you, they're impatient,
they just don't want anything to do with you.
Self-control is you not reciprocating because that's human nature.
Human nature is to reciprocate those same emotions back.
Self-control is all about sending back love and positivity and patience with them.
Self-control is saving money.
One of the laws of success is the habit of saving money.
You must have a high level of self-control in order to save money.
If you make a regular income and you have the habit of putting away a set percentage
of that money every single week, every single month, every single time you receive payment,
that takes self-control.
Self-control is doing more than you're paid for.
That's another law of success in Napoleon Hill's book.
Doing more than paid for, doing more and better work than paid for takes high self-control.
When you're in a hourly job and you are only paid from nine to five, most people leave
the office at five o'clock.
But you notice that your boss stays in until seven o'clock at night.
So you apply the principle of doing more than paid for using your self-control and you apply
that principle and you stay until seven o'clock and be of service to him.
That is a law of success.
That will help you gain success.
Self-control is one of the most essential qualities of a person.
Your life will not be great if you don't have self-control.
Actually self-control is also discipline.
You must have self-control.
You must have a high amount of self-control to be able to wake up at four in the morning,
turn on the shower to the coldest setting in the middle of winter when the pipes are
freezing and sit in that cold shower for 10 to 15 minutes every single morning.
That takes self-control.
Discipline is a matter of self-control.
It takes self-control to go outside and do a workout in the middle of winter.
Take self-control to go to the gym at six in the morning every day.
Self-control is an essential to success.