Well shouldn't encouraging, positive thoughts be the 1 percent of our lives? The 5 or 10 minutes when we wake up, or right before we go to sleep after a long day. No more than that though. The rest of our day should be action.. constant action, leaving no time for doubting thoughts, or yes any thoughts.. even positive ones.. because they don't have anything to do with the task at hand. And they don't really do anything anyway...they are like gas for our cars. They fill up our tank, but they don't get us anywhere by themselves.
If you wanted to be a pianist.. wouldn't it be better to instead of reading an encouraging article or book for 30 minutes, to just clear your mind and practice another 30 minutes? I am all for positive thoughts, but we should cut down "thinking" and "motivating" ourselves to a bare minimum. Otherwise it wastes time where we could be improving something.
That's my theory at least... it's nice for me to be able to hear different, intelligent thoughts on the subject.
Thanks everyone
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