Practice #7 - Failures Allow Their Thoughts to Run Wild

1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,040 So, I was reading this book called The Laws of Success in 16 Lessons this morning and 2 00:00:08,040 --> 00:00:10,620 this one quote really struck me. 3 00:00:10,620 --> 00:00:16,400 He said, failures let their thoughts run wild. 4 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:18,400 Let's talk about that. 5 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:21,440 So this has lots of different applications. 6 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:27,660 I learned about the first time I learned about thinking and thoughts and how your thoughts 7 00:00:27,660 --> 00:00:31,080 affect your reality or how your thoughts affect your actions. 8 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:36,000 The first time I learned about this was from a book called Reality Transurfing and in that 9 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:43,120 book it was basically talking about how your thoughts affect your world and your perception 10 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:50,160 of reality actually affects the way you experience it and the way that reality happens to you. 11 00:00:50,160 --> 00:00:54,840 So it not only affects the way you experience it, just from how you interpret things, you 12 00:00:54,840 --> 00:01:00,160 could be having objectively the same experience as another person yet having a far worse or 13 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:06,360 far better experience than them just because of your perception, but it also affects the 14 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:09,600 way that reality happens to you. 15 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:17,320 So I learned that your thoughts actually affect the way events play out in the world. 16 00:01:17,320 --> 00:01:23,440 So that's the first time I learned about thoughts and I learned that you could get drawn into 17 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:31,680 the game of a pendulum, which a pendulum is basically an energetic source or some sort 18 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:41,520 that tries to keep you absorbed in its game and it tries to get your thought energy to 19 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:43,080 be aligned to it. 20 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:46,320 So it tries to get you to think about that thing. 21 00:01:46,320 --> 00:01:55,000 So some common pendulums are TikTok, YouTube, getting in arguments with other people, school, 22 00:01:55,000 --> 00:02:00,440 college, social media, like literally anything is a pendulum. 23 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:03,440 I'm a pendulum, you're a pendulum. 24 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:09,720 So if you're thinking about a specific person, you're attuned to that pendulum. 25 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:14,800 And so if you're attuned to a pendulum that is destructive and actually all pendulums 26 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:22,080 are destructive, if you're attuned to a pendulum that is destructive, which is any pendulum, 27 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:28,040 then that means that you're giving it your energy and you're actually changing your own 28 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:34,000 thoughts and your thoughts are affecting your own reality. 29 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:38,000 But there are some pendulums that are your pendulums. 30 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:44,760 They still are destructive, but the trade-off is actually beneficial to you because you 31 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:47,280 benefit from it in some way. 32 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:50,680 For example, the gym is my pendulum. 33 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:53,320 I benefit from going to the gym. 34 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:55,320 I benefit from lifting weights. 35 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:59,760 So that trade-off is worthwhile for me. 36 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:05,480 Another pendulum that is beneficial to me is this YouTube channel or this podcast, depending 37 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:07,800 on where you're listening this from. 38 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:15,960 And the thing is that you have to be aware that you're giving specific things your energy. 39 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:20,560 You have to be aware what you're feeding your energy to. 40 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:24,400 And if you're not aware, you're playing a very dangerous game. 41 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:32,320 You are playing the game of swimming into a whirlpool in the middle of the ocean. 42 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:39,880 You will get caught in that whirlpool and you will end up in a very bad situation. 43 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:47,560 And so going back to the quote of failures, let their thoughts run wild. 44 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:53,240 In Transurfing terms, that is essentially failures allow their thoughts to run wild 45 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:58,600 on their own and they allow themselves to get caught up in the whirlpool of a pendulum 46 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:03,160 and they allow themselves to get swallowed up in the middle of the ocean. 47 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:05,240 That is a failure. 48 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:18,080 If you get consumed in emotion or an argument and you're consumed in anger or any emotion, 49 00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:23,560 you're consumed so much you're so unaware that you're taken off into a different direction 50 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:26,800 in life, then that is a failure. 51 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:33,360 And then I learned in a book that I talked about in the beginning of this episode called 52 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:41,600 The Laws of Success in 16 Lessons by Napoleon Hill, one of the laws of success is self-control. 53 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:50,280 And in that lesson, he talked about how self-control is solely a matter of thought control. 54 00:04:50,280 --> 00:04:56,160 So if self-control is a law of success, if you must have self-control, you must have 55 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:59,320 self-control in order to achieve success. 56 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:02,600 And self-control is solely a matter of thought control. 57 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:09,480 Well then that means you must control your thoughts in order to achieve success. 58 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:17,960 So the quote of failures allow their thoughts to run wild holds true because failures don't 59 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:20,080 control their thoughts. 60 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:26,440 So you must control your thoughts in order to have self-control and you must have self-control 61 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:28,960 in order to see success. 62 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:30,880 Now what is self-control? 63 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:39,040 Self-control is when you're in an heated argument and you hold your emotions, you are aware, 64 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:45,800 you're conscious and you feel yourself bubbling up, boiling up in the inside, but you hold 65 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:50,240 yourself controlled and you stay calm and tranquil. 66 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:52,120 That is self-control. 67 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:56,200 Self-control is maintaining awareness in the middle of an argument. 68 00:05:56,200 --> 00:06:05,720 Self-control is sending positive emotions back at someone who is sending you negative 69 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:06,720 emotions. 70 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:12,280 So if someone walks up to you on the street and they're pissed off at you, they're impatient, 71 00:06:12,280 --> 00:06:15,680 they just don't want anything to do with you. 72 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:20,360 Self-control is you not reciprocating because that's human nature. 73 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:23,680 Human nature is to reciprocate those same emotions back. 74 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:29,600 Self-control is all about sending back love and positivity and patience with them. 75 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:31,440 Self-control is saving money. 76 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:36,000 One of the laws of success is the habit of saving money. 77 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:42,120 You must have a high level of self-control in order to save money. 78 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:50,280 If you make a regular income and you have the habit of putting away a set percentage 79 00:06:50,280 --> 00:06:57,160 of that money every single week, every single month, every single time you receive payment, 80 00:06:57,160 --> 00:06:59,120 that takes self-control. 81 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:02,480 Self-control is doing more than you're paid for. 82 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:07,520 That's another law of success in Napoleon Hill's book. 83 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:14,680 Doing more than paid for, doing more and better work than paid for takes high self-control. 84 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:24,840 When you're in a hourly job and you are only paid from nine to five, most people leave 85 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:27,360 the office at five o'clock. 86 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:33,520 But you notice that your boss stays in until seven o'clock at night. 87 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:41,200 So you apply the principle of doing more than paid for using your self-control and you apply 88 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:46,440 that principle and you stay until seven o'clock and be of service to him. 89 00:07:46,440 --> 00:07:48,160 That is a law of success. 90 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:54,040 That will help you gain success. 91 00:07:54,040 --> 00:08:00,320 Self-control is one of the most essential qualities of a person. 92 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:04,360 Your life will not be great if you don't have self-control. 93 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:09,400 Actually self-control is also discipline. 94 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:11,200 You must have self-control. 95 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:17,320 You must have a high amount of self-control to be able to wake up at four in the morning, 96 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:23,440 turn on the shower to the coldest setting in the middle of winter when the pipes are 97 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:31,600 freezing and sit in that cold shower for 10 to 15 minutes every single morning. 98 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:34,200 That takes self-control. 99 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:36,720 Discipline is a matter of self-control. 100 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:42,160 It takes self-control to go outside and do a workout in the middle of winter. 101 00:08:42,160 --> 00:08:46,880 Take self-control to go to the gym at six in the morning every day. 102 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:56,480 Self-control is an essential to success.