Elevate Your Thoughts and Elevate Your?Life

If you were granted seven wishes to improve or elevate your life, what would they be?

It is not surprising that the most common “Wish List” consist of Wealth, Success and Self-improvement — followed by Love, Happiness, Friendship and Good Health.

When you consider your chances of achieving all or some of these goals — without a wish coming true — here are some penetrating insights you should ponder.

Statistics show that, there is about a one in thirty chance that any given person will become a millionaire, the standard Success Rate for the average American is about ten percent, and the odds of finding true love are one lifetime out of 10,000.

Also somewhat intriguing, is the fact that only about one in three Americans or 35% report having ten or more close friends, and according to health and fitness experts, less than 3% of Americans, live a healthy lifestyle.

But there seems to be one puzzling surprise. In a 2016 Forbes Magazine survey, “94% of millennials reported making personal improvement commitments and said they’d be willing to spend nearly $300 a month on self-improvement.”

However, when you consider the fact that none of us chooses the challenges thrusted upon us by circumstances of birth, it makes sense that Self-improvement would be third on this list — just behind Wealth and Success.

For most of us, improving our position in life naturally rises near the top of this list, when what it really takes to achieve the major goals in life becomes a reality — usually around post adolescence.

At its core, self-improvement and personal growth is about changing your mindset — and your thinking — in order to improve aspects of your emotional, physical, mental and spiritual well-being.

A recent editorial by Indeed, the company that has been ranked the #1 job site in the world, states that “Personal growth is important in many aspects of life, including your career.”

The same post identified five critical areas of personal growth. Of the five areas — which included Physical, Emotional, Spiritual and Social Growth— it is Mental Growth that topped this list.

Mental Growth focuses on the development of our mind — such as the way we think and how we formulate our thoughts.

Our thoughts are a catalyst for self-perpetuating cycles — or chains of events in our lives that repeat and are very difficult to stop, because they have the inherent power to maintain status quo. For this reason, what you think directly influences your chances of gaining other things in life, such as wealth, success, love, happiness, friendship and good health.

Breaking self-perpetuating cycles, requires getting beyond the status quo by increasing the intensity and the level of our thoughts. In other words, by elevating our thoughts — we can elevate our life.

The way the human brain works, many of the thoughts and beliefs acquired during our lifetime may have subconsciously entered our mind and intuition without us having the opportunity to consciously validate and approve of the source.

These shortcuts can lead to implicit or unconscious bias, and in many cases, lost opportunities for personal, professional and financial growth.

In our new book, “Living a More Thoughtful Life: Thinkable Thoughts and Relevant Reflections,” we share and shed light on fifty-two “thinkable thoughts” that have helped to elevate our level of thinking and elevate our lives.

By “thinkable,” we are referring to insightful thoughts that ignite one’s imagination and can easily be regarded as conceivable, feasible and beneficial in many aspects of anyone’s personal and professional life.

The thoughts we have included in this book constitute a way of thinking, that our experiences have taught us to be valuable in decision-making and engaging with others.

Each of the thoughts are crafted to provide a distinctively humanizing and simplifying approach to gaining a broader perspective on some of the most common challenges we all face today within a contentious, competitive, social media-driven, and unforgiving society. These are challenges that can be conquered and transformed into opportunities by simply living a more thoughtful life.

At the top of our "Wish List", as leadership development and career coaches, is for you to pick up a copy of Living a More Thoughtful Life and to spend some quality time internalizing the fifty-two thoughts and reflections from where you currently reside on your life’s journey.

We believe that by capturing your own perspective and reflections on each thought, and critically evaluating the sources that have contributed to your current level of thinking — and the challenges it may have presented in your life — you might find opportunities for both immediate and longer-term personal growth.

By doing so, you may also find yourself effortlessly living with and benefiting from an elevated level of thought.

Learn more about the book here: https://richerlifellc.com/thoughtful