E'RE AMAZING CREATURES … with the ability to stare truth square in its face and not see a dang thing. We’ve graced the Earth for at least one million years, yet just 500 years ago people thought it was flat. What timeless truths and principles might we still be blind to?

Well, I know what at least one of them is … we've all poked fun at it without ever realizing the magnitude of our oversight.

Ever heard the expression, "Be careful of what you wish for, because you just might get it?" You probably believe it contains some element of truth. But have you ever spent any time trying to figure out just how it could be true?

Having a mother who always inspired me to be a big time dreamer, I've come to the conclusion that there’s a principle at play in the universe that turns wishes into reality. It’s the same principle that powers positive thinking and it explains why creative visualization is an exercise practiced around the world by sports heroes and California governors alike. In three simple words, that principle is this:

“Thoughts become things.”

Not figuratively, literally. Not sometimes, all the time. And not just our positive thoughts, but the other ones, too, because it's an immutable law as rigid, predictable and dependable as gravity.

Now, I've known about this principle my entire adult life, and I could share amazing stories of it working wonders, but perhaps my favorite is one that began just two years after college. I was working for Price Waterhouse and I was finally in a place where I could "think thoughts" about thriving in the real world instead of just surviving. One of the things I did was create a little scrapbook. I took plain sheets of copy machine paper, courtesy, no doubt, of Price Waterhouse, and I pasted pictures from magazines of "things" I wanted in my life - a nice watch, fancy car, condo, and custom home, as well as photos of destinations that I'd one day visit - London, Paris, Hong Kong and Tokyo.

Well, I did my little visualization exercise every single day and two weeks later ... nothing happened. Two months later, absolutely nothing. In fact, it was about ten months later, while attending a conference in Washington DC, when I learned that every single year Price Waterhouse sends a few people overseas on foreign assignments.

You guessed it. Six weeks later I was living in the sunny capital ... of Saudi Arabia! I have to admit I hadn't spent one moment of my time seeing myself living in the Middle East. But while I was there, not only did I receive some serious "hardship" pay, I accrued three months of paid time off as well as a rather hefty airfare allowance to either go home every six months or fly anywhere else my heart desired.

During those three months, between Africa, Greece, Australia and the Himalayas, I visited every country on the planet I had ever dreamed of visiting. And I'll never forget the morning, having breakfast in the Regent Hotel in Kowloon, Hong Kong, when I looked up from over my coffee through the two storey plate glass windows that surrounded me and saw the exact same view of Hong Kong Island that I had pasted into my little scrapbook two years earlier.

I could share many similar stories, as well as a few sad ones, all illustrating how my thoughts have become the things and events of my life, but you know who else could do that? You. It is a law that governs all of our lives, whether we know it or not.

To illustrate: What happens when someone throws a ball into the air? It comes back down. Now, in order for that ball to come back down to Earth, does it matter who threw it? No. Nothing matters once they throw that ball, because as it leaves their fingertips the Universe and its principles take over. That’s exactly what happens once you choose your thoughts, so choose them wisely.

Thoughts become things! Whether you're thinking the good thoughts or worrying on your way to work, recognize this principle. Then you can begin deliberately turning your wishes into reality. Because whatever it is that you most want, truly, lies only a thought away.

Mike Dooley  (From the movie The Secret)

Orlando, Florida, USA

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