A drawing of a yellow sunflower with a smiling face with a blue sky in the background

What does “Think the Right Thought” mean? First, acknowledge that you have the ability to choose the thoughts you think. Now it may be a dormant skill, a mental muscle you have never developed, but you can direct your thoughts, you can alter your world view, you can choose what you focus on. What you focus on expands and thoughts held in mind attract in kind: what do you want to attract? What are you attracting?

Second, accept that your thoughts powerfully affect your moods and your actions. As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he, and the minute you realize the power of your thoughts, you will never think a negative thought again. Negativity is the ultimate in self-sabotage, a mega step on the slippery slope of self-fulfilling doom and gloom prophecy. A positive attitude by no means guarantees success but a negative one definitely increases the odds of failure.

Think the right thought means thinking about thinking, choosing to think thoughts that serve you, uplift you, support you. Thoughts of optimism, resilience, and gratitude that promote your well-being and mental health, solution-oriented thoughts: forward, onward and upward.

Closing Quotes:

“I am a radiant optimist, I carry the Sun in my heart, the Stars in my pocket.” – NSC Affirmation

“You are the master of your attitude. Choose the positive, the constructive; you have a choice.” – Bruce Lee

 “As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.” – Buddha

“Be positive. Your mind is more powerful than you think. What is down in the well comes up with the bucket. Fill yourself with positive things.” – Tony Dungy

“Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.” – Philippians 4:8, KJV

As always, I share what I most want and need to learn. – Nathan S. Collier