Week 15: The Third Law of the Mind

All seven of the SEVEN LAWS OF THE MIND are excellent reminders to me of principles that I must continue to keep motivated to do so I can move forward. With that in mind, the Law of Practice seem to stand out in boldness to me. Perfect Practice Prevents Poor Performance. With practice of the correct things, not just knowledge of correct things.

As was pointed out in article 36 of the week 15 master key lesson, knowledge does not apply itself. Often our actions are not governed by knowledge but by custom, precedent and habit. Therefore, bringing us to the awareness as Og Mandino pointed out, we can blindly follow the customs, precedents, and habits of others and be greatly limited or impaired in our own reasoning ability and insight. While much can be learned by observing the actions of others, we owe it to ourselves to qualify any information or action by inductive reasoning (week 11 master key lesson) and our own principles and beliefs.

Week 5: How did THAT get here?

Our mental homes are designed by and composed by the thoughts we entertain. Since I now understand this fact, I know that my conscious mind received its governing tendencies as the result of the environment I’ve had in my life, and the choices I made sometimes probably in only a split second without much thought, to allow a certain belief into my subconscious mind with very little examination and inspection. I’m becoming aware that many of the ‘furnishings’ I have in my mental house need to be thrown out! It’s almost as if I let some of my own enemies into my house with open arms, and makes me think how did THAT get here?! As they come forward and make themselves known to me, instead of repressing them or shooing them away, I will be throwing them OUT and replacing them with thoughts I now choose. I’m now in control of what goes in and what goes out with great anticipation of the results. It’s inspiring to think that matter is inert and my thought makes my reality.