The Elephant and the Twig - The Art of Positive Thinking by Geoff Thompson

Author:Geoff Thompson [Thompson, Geoff]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Self-Improvement
ISBN: 1840241152
Publisher: Summersdale
Published: 2007-02-28T00:00:00+00:00

Changing direction

One of my friends said to me, ‘I really want to become a lawyer, but it’s a five-year course, what if I get half-way through the course and change my mind?’

I told him that nothing is cast in stone. If you are half-way towards your goal and suddenly realise that you are on the wrong path you can change to another. It’s allowed, it’s all allowed. And don’t feel as though what you have done thus far will be wasted, it won’t. Any knowledge you learn en route can be used and re-used in different directions. Even if it isn’t specific to your next goal it will matter not. When we acquire knowledge, when we stretch our mind to take in new information our consciousness becomes broader, we become more erudite, we become stronger and wiser. That strength and wisdom can be applied to anything in life. It’s like hitting the weights and building skeletal muscle and strength. Just because you have developed it pushing weights doesn’t mean that you can’t apply that same strength and musculature into other areas. Of course you can.

This doesn’t mean either that you can’t aim for more than one goal at once. Though to aim in several directions at the one time does take a lot of skill and energy, but it can be done. I often aim for several goals at once. To do this you have to become a juggler who manages to keep several balls in the air at once. This takes a great work ethic and time management. What I do, like the juggler, is only concentrate on each ball as it touches my hand, then it’s back in the air again. Then I concentrate on the next. As a for instance, at this moment in time I am juggling several different balls. I write for three magazines, I am working with a theatre company on my plays, a film company on my serials and my films, I’m writing this book (at 6 a.m.), I’m just getting ready to start a book-signing tour of Britain, I am negotiating with several book clubs to sell my other books, I am dealing on a weekly basis with the reps who sell my books to the shops – do you get the picture? There’s loads more too, and I know it can all sound daunting but I have built up to this over a long period of time. When I first started in this game I struggled to hold more than one idea in my head at one time. Any more and smoke started to come out of my ears. My mind was quite weak, but by placing it under pressure, by gently stretching it I changed it. Now it’s strong. Over the years I have gradually learned to add more and more to my plate and still manage. But I still only really carry one in my head at any one time. All the rest are written down on my things-to-do board.

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