Thought and Character - Opinions
Posted by: Rob Saxe // Category: As A Man Thinketh by James Allen
“Man is made or unmade by himself, in the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself; he also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy, strength and peace.”
Your thoughts create your reality. It’s that simple. Especially your opinions, the thoughts you hold onto, cherish or revere and repeat to yourself over and over again create your life before you. Some of your ideas were conditioned into you by authority figures in your life and other thoughts are a result of our life experiences, successes and failures. Our reactions flow forth from a source, for the most part, unfamiliar to us and while most will defend them to the end, others look in the mirror as if to ask, “what was I thinking?”
A friend once told me that if I didn’t get down off my fence, straddling and stand for something that I essentially stood for nothing. I’d agree. When you stand for nothing, anything is possible. When you stand for something, it can get in the way of everything. How do you stand?
We don’t have opinions, opinions have us.
Does that mean we don’t have values? No it doesn’t. Values are important and help guide us if properly utilized. Values aren’t what were talking about, it’s everything else we carry around that hinders our ability to achieve. Can some opinions be mislabeled as values? I know I’ve done it and failed as a result. Values seem to be basic life fundamentals and are few while opinions are distractions to life fundamentals and are many.
Sound familiar?
Your mind will work either way for you. Toward success or toward failure, it’s your choice and two sides of the same coin. Many don’t understand why events happen in their lives as they do. I didn’t but now I understand it well. With that understanding comes faith in whatever happens being for the highest good.
You don’t get that which you want, you get that which you are. Your opinions make up who you are. What are yours? Do your opinions of the world around you promote your cause or defeat your cause? You’ve got your results as the barometer, how’s it reading at the moment? Are you all that you want to be? Only you can know. Be honest, assess yourself and change is possible.
That’s my opinion, what’s yours? 
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