MASTERING THE ART OF THOUGHT CONVERSION AND CONVERTING LIFE CIRCUMSTANCES TO PERSONAL POWER!
Kingsley Godwin
International Development | Public Policy | Project Management | Impact Investing | Digital Rights and Tech for Social Good Policy Advocate
When you are faced with a setback situation- perhaps you lost a job, or you lost a relationship, or you lost a competition or a contract, or whatever it is. When life happens as it sometimes will, we are often tempted to interpret such situations as negative. But hear me - life events are not negative or positive. They are completely neutral. It’s our mind and emotion that chooses to interpret them as negative or positive.
The word conversion means the process of changing or causing something to change from one form to another. It could also mean ‘’Transformation, Translation, Transmutation, Transfiguration, Metamorphosis – a change in state’’. Most people have never really been taught on how to train their mind and emotions to see things positively, because what the world describes as negative makes more wave. That training is what you need to translate your negative life circumstances to your personal power.
The press and media paints pictures of gloom and doom and if your heart isn’t guided, your emotions and thought feeds and swallow up all that information- then forms and shape your life's perception of the events happening around you. That information gradually begins to stark up tiny layers of fear in your mind, which ends up framing the state of your mind. Then when those events reoccur, we are quick to react, often in the wrong way and then we exaggerate and describe them as negative. However, the truth is we have only responded to our inner fears.
Your perception and reaction to life's event are entwined and could be a very huge source of personal power for you when you master the art of thought conversion. When life events happen- "those things our world describe as negative, the first thing to do is to PAUSE; yes, pause and do some deep thinking. Ask yourself why is this thing happening to me at this time? Don't ask yourself that question with the mindset of a victim. Ask yourself that question with the mindset of a life dominator! That is one sure way to convert circumstances to opportunities and convert weakness to strength. With that skill at your disposal, nothing in life can overwhelm you!
Get this - Things just don't happen. Everything that happens in life is a function of the law of cause and effect. That means life event or fate as it is known is not targeting you specifically to make something bad or the worse things happen to you. Everything that happens is triggered by something else that has pre-happened. Knowing this puts you in a position of advantage. It makes you realize that you can become a master of life situations and circumstances and turn them around to work for your good.
Naturally, our mind is set to believe that all things will work out as good and fine as we have imagined them. For example, as an entrepreneur, you have this great idea that gets you all excited and stimulated whenever you think of it then you venture out into the business world and discover that the process of building a great business enterprise, empire or conglomerate is not as easy as you thought.
When setback occurs- which we most often don’t expect. We often pray and hope they don't occur. But when they do as they sometimes will, never allow your emotions to get bruised to the point that you get thrown off balance. Don't allow fear to settle in your heart because of anything that happened to you. If fear dwells in your heart, you will begin to get cautious and retreat, hoping no more negative thing will occur. That way you position yourself to begin to live life on the defensive and that is the path which can get you despaired, disappointed, frustrated, discouraged or even depressed.
Take the more adventurous path. Get on the offensive with life! Don’t wait for life to happen to you, happen to life! Furthermore, learn to see life circumstances as a dare and challenge! Life is daring and challenging you to be great! Life is daring you to bring out the greatness in you. When circumstances happen, ask yourself in a hard way- is this situation greater and bigger than me or am i greater and bigger than this situation? Ask yourself will this situation overcome me or will i overcome this situation? Ask yourself will this situation pull me down or will i pull down this situation? Ask yourself will this situation outshine me or will i outshine this situation? Ask yourself all the tough and hard questions that will make you get up on your feet and stay metal!
Learn to seize the circumstances and things that happen around you to become the best version of you. It begins by consciously refusing to translate or interpret everything that happens or occur as negative. Don't allow your soft emotions to tell you otherwise. Say to yourself, this situation, this circumstance is working for my good. When things happen, don't begin to wonder, cry and ask why is this happening to me? Don't begin to blame yourself or blame others, don't get unnecessarily emotional like you are the first person in the world such a thing will happen to.
The truth is far worst things have happened to other people and they braced themselves up, turn that converted those kinds of situations to their advantage. Am not saying you should totally lose your emotions and feelings, but don't dwell there. The problem is most of us are accustomed to self-pity but self-pity wouldn't change anything. We want this temporal feeling of satisfaction that at least we cried enough to reduce our grief. Don’t trade your personal power for self-pity. Convert those thoughts of grief and loss to energy and fuel for positive aggressive acceleration and progression.
Your mind is the battlefield of life. Master the art of dominating your own thought processes. It all begins with a thought. It’s all in your mind! Don't allow your mind to cringe to fear. Never allow fear of what will be to dominate and imprison your mind. The darkest moments are your opportunities to shine and radiate your light at its best luminary.
Strengthen your personal power by developing a strong resilient and fearless attitude towards life. Build your personal power by developing the mindset of a victor and champion. When you master the art of thought conversion, you have awakened yourself to a position of mastering how to deal with life circumstances and that is the beginning of your personal power!
I am Dexter King and i want you to Stay Metal!
? DEXTER KINGSLEY GODWIN