Postcards from the Funny Farm

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Living a happy life is not as simple as it seems. The Buddhist monks with ethereal smiles go through years of mental discipline to get there. Happy people of all walks and religion 9 times out of 10 are happy not out of chance or laziness, but rather chosen adherence to principle.

To find the true possibilities in your life, you must keep a very open mind. Solutions abound, everywhere. You must resolve to face the solutions that exist and not shun them out of complacency or lack of belief. You must be a pioneer, no matter what your personality type is. In other words, you might think the word pioneer would only apply to the type A personalities but it encompasses all in their many human variations. By their very nature, possibility thinkers must “reinvent the wheel” of day to day life, and do it without recognition or compensation. The rewards will come, but they will be first INTRINSIC. After that the outward benefits will come, though they’ll never be as cool as the changes you realize inside yourself.

So what is the first and foremost rule of possibiity thinking? It’s a simple one. Because your outlook and interpretation of the world around you is SO crucial to your progress as a possibility thinker, you must COMPLETELY resolve to :

Never make a decision when you are 1) tired -or- 2) overly emotional.

A possibility thinker learns to “table” decisions temporarily sometimes. Don’t ever think that thinkers like us can come up with perfect solutions on a dime all the time. It CAN happen and frequently does, but there are also times when we can mess up . . . even worse than pessimistic or impossibility thinkers do. We can avoid many of these failures by resolving to follow the first and foremost rule. Learn to tell yourself: “I will not make a decision on this now because I will assuredly make a better one later.” By waiting, you’ll naturally develop new and better ideas for solutions and as they coalesce in your mind, you grow eager to put them into practice in your personal material world.