Striving towards Excellence

-Karthik Gurumurthy

If you quote something in Latin, it looks profound. Jokes apart, what does, ' Cogito, ergo sum' means? "As you think , so you are. Our thoughts determine who we are, how we perceive ourselves, physically, mentally, spiritually, and emotionally; how we perceive others; and how we plan for and experience our lives on a daily basis. Our thoughts are everything. Nothing exists without our first thinking it.  "And if I don't like what I am, I need to be willing to change what I think,"

We live as though we can't help how we think. But we can. The negative thoughts we have were created by us; they are nurtured by us and can only changed by us. There is only one thing standing in the way of making this change: ourselves.

There is a process for changing how we think. The first step is to be willing to give up a familiar patten of thinking, and this is a step that many people stumble over. In fact, many of us don't even recognize that our thoughts are negative. We think they simply are. But once we become aware that a pattern is not working for us, the first step is to be willing to change it.

The second step is to envision yourself in a new circumstances, fulfilling a new role perhaps, at work or at home or among friends. Envision yourself in a detailed way. Envisioning helps us to grow into who we want to be.