What Is My State Of Mind? Is It Geared For Success?

I mean, really, how do we know? It is the vaguest question any article title can pose to the reader but it is something this article will try and tackle. The question ‘What is the state of my mind?’ and ‘Is it geared for success?’ is fraught with deep, dark jungles of uncertainly because we are talking about millions of people, with different minds, different backgrounds and different objectives in life?

You are right. This article can in no way answer this question effectively but it will at least cause you to think and think hard about your life. It will be a provocation to re-evaluation and hopefully a spark to start yourself to investigate the things your life and whether you are exactly where you want to be. There is a checklist, a general one though, that you can use to assess your life.

Your mind is a powerful thing and it is so powerful, that it can actually be either the cause or the downfall or your existence. The thing is about people nowadays that they go about life thinking that the time to enrich the mind ended when you left college. The time to investigate the mind and its potentials stopped once you no longer needed to lift up a book. Constantly your mind is learning and good or bad, life entrenches messages in your subconscious - messages that define your behaviour, your attitudes and your emotions. Who you are as a person, as an individual, as a lover, as a worker and your future is completely determined how you nurture your mind.

Are you where you want to be? Are there any negative thoughts that have creeped into your brain, things you wanted to do and passions you wanted to pursue in your life? Have you ever imagines yourself as somebody else, dreamed of things you felt you never could pursue anymore because of various reasons and excuses that seem to crop up and things that seem to ‘get in the way’ of your pursuit.

These are just some of the questions you can ask yourself. How truly do we know where we are in life and how positive are we that this is the route we chose for ourselves, by our free will and now steered into because of reasons that seem to be out of control. ‘Carpe Diem’ - is a meaning that can only be translated and not really understood by most of us. Don’t just look up the meaning of those two words; live it! Seize the day! We live in fear, and that is something we cannot deny. Fear we will lose our jobs, fear we will fail, fear of the world around us and the unknown. No one has NO fear in their life. But rise above your fear, rise above your doubts and seize the day.

Fear can be useful but the root of that fear is important. I won’t ramble on, but I will leave you with a proverb that someone left me a long time ago - if success is a road, then we have never truly arrived. So if you’re wondering if this article has answered the question posed to you in the beginning, it hasn’t, because it can’t. Only you can answer it for yourself, and the answer should always be yes.