I have pretty positive thoughts. In fact, if you could spend even an hour in my mind, I think you would be proper impressed (see, positive). As a child, I was taught that thinking was the same as doing. If your imagination is anything like mine, you know this can be very, very dangerous. By the time I was ten, I had lived quite the life…in my mind.
In addition to having a vivid imagination, I also have a strong determination to prove things – wrong or right. So, thought or not, I generally did it, whatever ‘it’ may be.
As I’ve gotten older, not much has changed. Although, I believe I may think about far more things than I actually do. For example, every morning, while cozy in my bed (or CO chair), I think about going to work. I also regularly think about cleaning, exercising, eating better, reading more, doing my taxes, and the like. Unfortunately, like so many other things we are taught to believe as children, this philosophy is not true. Thinking is not the same as doing.
Thinking about things does, however, help. I can walk proud knowing I have thought good thoughts and had good intentions – I just may not actually take this walk until later in the day, after I have had plenty of time to sleep in, stare at my fan light, and ponder things. Maybe I ponder more than I think. Definitely something to consider. Which I’ll do later, after I clean, aka, think ‘clean’ thoughts.