CHANGE your thoughts CHANGE your life

By

Chris K. Hammond

Copyright 2017

Chris K. Hammond

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ISBN: 9781370084067

Published 2017

E mail: pastorchris1k@gmail.com or ckhammond@yahoo.com.

Acknowledgment

From inception to production, this book has been a collaborative project. I would like to thank those who share my passion for creativity and ministry, and who have supported me throughout this effort. I am also grateful for all the help I have received from all those who have supported me one way or the other to make this book possible. You all know who you are. Thank you so much.

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1    YOU ARE A GENIUS

CHAPTER 2    THINK LIKE A GENIUS

CHAPTER 3    THE POWER OF THOUGHTS

CHAPTER 4    CHANGE YOUR THOUGHTS

CHAPTER 5    THINK WITHOUT LIMITS

CHAPTER 6    CHANGE YOUR LIFE

CHAPTER 7    THE POWER OF CONCENTRATION

CHAPTER 8    THE BRAIN AND NEURON WORKS

CHAPTER 9    THE POWER OF THE MIND

CHAPTER 10   RENEW YOUR MIND

CHAPTER 11   THE POWER OF MEDITATION

CHAPTER 12   THE POWER OF ATTITUDE

CHAPTER 13   DEVELOP A PMA

CHAPTER 14   USE YOUR IMAGINATION

CHAPTER 15   THINK WEALTHY THOUGHTS

CHAPTER 16   THE DYNAMICS OF CHANGE

CHAPTER 17   CHANGE YOUR PARADIGM

CHAPTER 18   CHANGE YOUR LEVEL

CHAPTER 19   THE LEGACY OF FAITH

CHAPTER 20   THE POWER OF POSITIVE DESIRE

CHAPTER 21   FOCUS ON YOUR DREAM.

CHAPTER 22   BE DETERMINED TO SUCCEED

CHAPTER 23   MAKE GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME

CHAPTER 24   KEEP MOVING FORWARD

CHAPTER 25   THE POWER OF WORDS

CHAPTER 26   THE NEED FOR KNOWLEDGE

CHAPTER 27   UNLEASH YOUR POTENTIAL

CHAPTER 28   THE POWER OF SUCCESS STORIES

CHAPTER 29   BELIEVE IN YOURSELF

CHAPTER 30   DREAM BIG

CHAPTER 31   COMMIT TO EXCELLENCE

CHAPTER 32   DON’T QUIT

CHAPTER 33   THE POWER OF PERSEVERANCE

CHAPTER 34   FOLLOW YOUR PASSION

CHAPTER 35   LIVE BY DESIGN

CHAPTER 36   BELIEVE YOU CAN

CHAPTER 37   FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

REFERENCES

INTRODUCTION

This book is a must read for all those who want to take their own destiny into their hands and change their life’s circumstances. You are holding in your hands a complete compass that will help you navigate your world into your bright future. Change your thoughts change your life shows you how to discover your extraordinary gifts and talents in order to maximize your potential. You will learn how you can attract into your life all the people and resources you need in order to achieve your goals, realize your dreams and fulfill destiny. Robert collier said, There is nothing on Earth that you cannot have-once you have mentally accepted the fact that you can have it.

The Power of thoughts in the life of humans can no longer be underrated. Emerson made us to understand that thought is a spiritual power. Thoughts are things in the sense that thoughts are tangible. The world, nations, communities and individuals are in their present state as a result of the thoughts they have entertained over time. Thought power is the greatest power available to mankind that God gave us right from Adam. Have you ever wondered why you find yourself short the way you want to succeed? Do you think that you need help to overcome this situation? Are you clueless about how to start and where to start from? In this book you will learn how to engage the power of your thoughts in changing your present situation. You will be handed the tools that will help you to take off on your journey into great success.

You were wired for great success. You were designed by God to use all the talents and abilities you were naturally endowed with to succeed in life. You are exceptionally and wonderfully made to enjoy a better life here on Earth. You are a bundle of miracles awaiting manifestation. You were fearfully and wonderfully made by God.

The first chapter, you are a genius, makes you aware of the genius in you. The second chapter will help you to think like a genius which is essential for success in life. Chapter three talks about the power of thoughts. What a man thinks he becomes as it is written in Proverbs 23:7, For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: a man’s thoughts drives his attitude and his attitude drives his actions. His actions determine his outcome and his outcome determines his income.  His income determines his level of prosperity and his prosperity determines his realm of wealth. The fourth chapter talks about how to change your thoughts in order to change your mind. The fifth chapter talks about How to think without limits. The sixth chapter teaches on how to change your life. 

Chapter seven talks about the power of concentration and why you need to focus your strength on the power of the mind and how the mind affects everything we do in life. The power of the brain is captured in chapter eight. God endowed us with a great brain network. It is the brain that gives function to the activities of the mind. The power of the mind is captured in chapter nine. Those who do and achieve greater feats in life are those who have not underestimated the power of the mind in their daily dealings. The tenth chapter deals with the renewing of the mind and how transformation occurs with the renewing of the mind. The power of meditation is a great tool for changing our thoughts and effecting lasting solutions to problems. This is captured in the eleventh chapter. As you read the other chapters you would be exposed to the depth of knowledge that you need to change your life.

Your body is not really who you are; you are more than that. In fact that is why it is so hard for people to fully understand and appreciate who they are. I wish to state that in this book, Change your thoughts, change your life., an attempt is made to show the  reader how to lift himself or herself from the present low estate of lack and poverty, to the realm of abundance and prosperity by changing negative thoughts and mindset into that of positive constructive thoughts.

I wrote this book specifically to help people to succeed in life. When this is accomplished your life will flourish like the palm tree and you shall grow like the cedars of Lebanon as written in Psalm 92:12. Keep reading; your life will never remain the same. When you change your thoughts you change your life. Have Good Success! 

CHAPTER ONE

YOU ARE A GENIUS

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them. Buckminster Fuller.

Everyone is born a genius. You are a genius. God created you a genius. That is why the Bible says in Psalm 139:14, I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. You have so much energy and power inside you; it is called potential. Can you feel it? It wants to be unleashed. It wants to find expression. It wants to manifest. It wants to shine. It wants to be creative. You were born a genius, imbued with everything you need to think like one. But somehow it’s gone into oblivion. Did they drain the creative nature out of you? Or did it get covered up and locked away? You owe it to God, society and all to unleash your genius. Most of all, you owe it to yourself. It’s the best of you. Let it loose. Let it out. Unleash it. Who knows what you will create, who you will help, what you will create, as a result? God endowed you with great talents and potentials that will help you in the manifestation of your Divine purpose, your dreams or vision and your stated empowering goals. 

Defining genius

According to Wikipedia, A genius is a person who displays exceptional intellectual ability, creative productivity, universality in genres or originality, typically to a degree that is associated with the achievement of new advances in a domain of knowledge.9Do you know you are a genius? It is true. Even if you don’t think of yourself as having great intelligence, you actually possess many of the characteristics shared by people of high intelligence but you are unaware. The human brain is amazing but we are not using enough of it. Some scientists say that geniuses use about only 10 percent of their brain capacity and that’s what makes them geniuses. The big question is what if you were a genius from birth and you just didn’t know how to tap the power? What if you could unlock your true potential? Are you someone who has an intellectual capacity that spans a wider spectrum than most people? Have you ever wondered what geniuses have in common? What are we humans really capable of doing with our mind power? There are more geniuses out there than most people realize. 

Some signs that you are naturally a genius:

1. You are curious about everything.

2. You read constantly.

3. You enjoy challenging your own intellect.

4. You enjoy trying new things.

Geniuses start and move things forward. They see the future more than anyone else, creating value through innovation, creativity, flair, and ability to get things started. They grow and create leverage through multiplication.  Geniuses do things which make other people ridicule them: people made mockery of the Wright brothers, because no one had a goal quite like theirs. There is a common trait among all the genius:

They carefully listen when the other person speaks;

They speak very less and when they do, they utter something great; 

They hardly participate in gossips and cheap talks.

Genius is the master of nature

Josiah Gilbert Holland said, Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature. Creativity is from divine intelligence and divine intelligence emanates from God however genius is the master of nature. Genius is what gives expression to nature.

Genius is universal

Genius is universal. It is not restricted to any country, geographical location or persons. Everyone is a genius from birth. You only need to manifest it. It’s available to every single human being. It does show up differently in every single one of us.

Genius is great potential

Potential is what you can become. Genius is a potential that resides in each and every one of us. There are times when you have an exceptionally brilliant idea and you implement it. You created something that beats your imagination and that of others and you even amazed yourself. That is what genius is all about. You are indeed a great genius.

CHAPTER TWO

THINK LIKE A GENIUS

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. Thomas A. Edison.

Most of the answers to questions and solutions to problems are hidden in the human mind. The mind is so powerful in determining whether you succeed or fail in life. Out of the human mind emanates ideas, products, services, knowledge, wisdom and experiences that help us to survive in this turbulent environment. You must learn how to think like a genius in order to make it in life. Like I always say, thinking is divine; God thinks too. When you begin to think like a genius you will be opening yourself up to an array of limitless boundaries of ideas, creativity and innovation that may be mind-blowing in nature and scope.

Thinking is essential

Thinking is a very essential practice of the human mind. In the past we had great thinkers who transformed the world. Some of them were:

1. Thomas Edison changed the world of technology.

2. Albert Einstein changed the world of physics.

3. Charles Darwin changed the world of biology.

4. Isaac Newton discovered the laws of motion.

Not many of us will ever achieve that level of brilliance, but we're all looking for creative thinking, better ideas, and more innovative solutions. To get there, you have to let go of your everyday thinking and embrace your inner genius by generating as many ideas and taking as many risks as possible. How do geniuses come up with ideas? What is common to the thinking style that produced Mona Lisa, as well as the one that spawned the theory of relativity? What characterizes the thinking strategies of the Einstein’s, Edison’s, daVincis, Henry Ford, Darwins, Picassos, Michelangelos, Galileos, Freuds,  Mozarts, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates etc. of history? What can we learn from them? 

Here's how you can generate ideas like a genius.

Be curious

Curiosity is the father of creativity and invention. All great inventors were curious people. An insatiably curious approach to life and an unrelenting quest for continuous learning is very necessary for idea generation and development. Leonardo da Vinci’s intense curiosity and desire to understand all things lead him to develop an investigative lifestyle, in a constant quest to discover and absorb the world inside and outside him. He strongly believed that, the knowledge of all things is possible.

Curiosity is a state of mind and a way of living. Gelb says that Great minds go on asking confounding questions with the same intensity throughout their lives, One of the exercises Michael Gelb suggests, in order to cultivate your curiosity is to carry a journal or notebook with you at all times, like Da Vinci did, so you can jot down your ideas as soon as they occur. (You could also use a recorder, but nothing beats the written word). Da Vinci said, I awoke, only to find out that the rest of the world was still asleep. 

Set optimistic goals and pursue them

For people who aim at becoming geniuses and doing great things, an essential skill they should master would be to learn to plan for, and work toward realistic and optimistic goals. Goals can be short-term or long-term, simple or complex. Short-term goals allow people to complete tasks on hand, such as assignments or work. Short-term goals serve a tangible, immediate purpose. Long-term goals are more lasting and require perseverance, foresight and courage. Most people set unrealistic goals. Those who will succeed must anchor their needs, dreams, personality, skills, values, lifestyle, expectations and desires, among other attributes.

Brainstorm

Brainstorming is a group creativity technique by which efforts are made to arrive at a consensus or conclusion for a specific problem by gathering a list of ideas or solutions spontaneously contributed by its members. The term was popularized by Alex Faickney Osborn in the 1953 book ‘Applied Imagination.’ We have individual brainstorming and group brainstorming. Individual brainstorming is most effective when you need to solve a simple problem, generate a list of ideas, or focus on a broad issue. Group brainstorming is often more effective for solving complex problems. 

Use Mind mapping 

Mind-mapping frees you from the constraints of your left hemisphere of your brain and enriches your learning experience by allowing you to design concepts at the full capacity of your full-brain power. It is a method for transcribing the spontaneous, simultaneous ideas, thoughts, impressions, feelings that float harmoniously in the mind, on paper in order to implement them. The mind entertains by infinite intelligence, a great number of creative, wealth building and life changing ideas in a day. Make good use of them with the tool of mind mapping. 

Mind mapping was developed as an effective method for generating ideas by association. In order to create a mind map, you look for a cardboard, a foolscap paper, a pencil or felt pens.  You usually start in the middle of the page with the central theme or main idea and from that point you work outward in all directions to create a growing diagram composed of keywords, phrases, concepts, and facts and figures. It can be used for assignments and essay writing especially in the initial stages, where it is an ideal strategy to use for your ‘thinking’. Mind mapping can be used for generating, visualizing, organizing, note taking, problem solving, and decision making, revising and clarifying. Essentially, a mind map is used to ‘brainstorm’ a topic and is a great strategy for use by all.

Be original in your thinking

Becoming more original in your thinking and using your power of creativity more effectively will open you up for the limitless arena of bountiful opportunities of using creative ideas. In being original in your thinking you need to know how to apply common sense to situations around you and engaging in the process of meditation and concentrating your thoughts on what you want to achieve. The word of God says in Proverbs 23:7," For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee. The originality of your thinking creates your uniqueness and significance.

Think creatively

According to the business Dictionary.com "creative thinking