I have heard it times without number that life is unfair. But is this true? Is life really unfair? Will it be fair for me to say that life is all about perception and what you do? You do not need to agree with me now but that is the truth. Wait…millions of naira exchanged hands in this same Nigeria every day. Some you see with your physical eyes and others through electronic means but yet a lot still find it hard to feed.

The difference? The successful knows how to use their thought to create what they want. Everything in life starts with a thought. Even the world first existed in God’s thought before it became real. Everybody wants a better life, but if you do the same old things in the same old way you will get the same old results. If a farmer plants corn seeds, he gets corn. He doesn’t get tomatoes. As long as you continue to fill your thought with thought of failure, poverty, or violent ideas, it will be impossible for you to harvest success, wealth, or peace. If you want to change the results you are getting, you must change your images and the very thoughts you allow to pass through your mind per time, because thought is creative.

Where you are today is a direct reflection of the words, thoughts and actions you took days, months and years ago. No matter how much you continue to blame your parents, teachers, where you grew up, television, the government or anything else, the truth is that nobody got you where you are today but yourself. The longer you choose not to take responsibility for your live, the longer you will be living uninspired lives that you do not love.

Therefore, you need to keep your focus on what is working – for you and for others. You are bombarded with negative input all day long. As such, you need to watch what goes in because your livelihoods depend on what you creatively crank out. Your heads need to be full of positive inspiration or free space where you can dream. It is, therefore, important to keep a positive mental attitude no matter what your life is like because nothing is more important than your thoughts. Your thought determines how you will experience the next minute, hour, day, week, year, decade and century.

Negative thoughts, words and attitude bring up negative and unhappy moods and actions. When the mind is negative, poisons are released into the blood, which cause more unhappiness and negativity. Negative thinking is the way to failure, frustration and disappointment. Positive and negative thinking are both contagious, and their results are very obvious. If you choose the former you gain a great and beneficial power. In order to turn the mind towards the positive, knowledge and training are necessary.

Always visualize only favorable and beneficial situations. Use positive words in your inner dialogues or when talking with others. Smile a little more, as this helps to think positively. If you feel inner resistance when replacing negative thoughts with positive ones, do not give up, but keep looking only at the beneficial, good and happy thoughts in your mind. Disregard any feelings of laziness or a desire to quit. If you persevere, you will transform the way your mind thinks.

It does not matter what your circumstances are at the present moment. Think positively, expect only favorable results and situations, and circumstances will change accordingly. It may take some time for the changes to take place, but eventually they do.