Where Does Your Power and Freedom Live?

Remember a time when you alone had to solve a problem or come up with a solution to a serious challenge on your own—a time when you had to really sit down and THINK how to come up with an answer or resolution? You used your mind and just plowed through whatever limit was in the way and crushed it. True thinking takes discipline, perseverance, faith, and desire. Henry Ford said, ‘Thinking is hard work, and why so few people engage in it.”

Those who really THINK set themselves apart from the masses. They are far and few between. They are the men and women in this world who see challenges, circumstances, and possibilities in ways that others wouldn’t dream about or consider as options to make the world a better place for themselves and others. You can think for yourself. You can be part of those who Live Above the Ordinary.

Thomas Jefferson is quoted as saying, “A strong body makes a strong mind”.

But does it really? We know how to exercise our physical muscles to keep them strong but how do we exercise our mind to keep it strong? We can exercise our mind so that we think on “purpose” meaning that we can think our way into creating the life we know we deserve and envision for our future. Our six intellectual faculties are the magic weapons in our minds. We all have these mental muscles but few call upon them to create their own destiny.  They are imagination, will, reason, perception, memory, and intuition.

Your freedom and power lives inside of you. Where you are in life and who you are in life is a result of your thinking. Learning how to direct your thoughts decisively and persistently instead of just reacting to outside distractions, influences, and mental chatter will point to a new road—a road less traveled to a more purposeful, meaningful life.

So, what is the first step to begin to utilize these six intellectual faculties? First, we need to take responsibility for why we do the things we do. We need to begin to understand the reasoning behind such behavior and decisions we have made in our lives. Once we begin to see and understand that outside influences and the expectations that others have put upon us; such as, family, friends, colleagues, peers, community, etc., have impacted our lives, we can begin to choose how much power, weight, and control these influences have over our lives.  Once we choose to act differently, how we respond to situations, we create an awareness within ourselves and learn to think independently as we were all meant to do.   

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