Your inner world creates your outer world. What you think determines what happens to you and around you in life.

People can choose to accept this fact and thus take control of their destiny. Or they can choose to blow this off, mumble something about “new age hippie nonsense” and continue to suffer.

I’ve given up on trying to convince people of anything. If you want to suffer, that’s your right and I wish you the best on that journey.

On the other hand, if you’d like to empower yourself and become instantly happy here’s the key:

What you think, you are. Your thoughts become things, and your thought patterns build the world around you.

We could talk all day about in-depth specifics, and I’ll definitely devote future articles to this topic. But the simple, awesome truth is what we think is the core contributing factor to the events and circumstances we live out in our physical lives.

I have to think you intuitively know this. Still there are people who want to argue the point.

My favorite example is the person who angrily insists that our thoughts have no power and we are all in fact the playthings of an angry, childish God who likes to make us suffer as a way of “testing us”. This is a great storyline for a fantasy novel but a very poor explanation of life, in my opinion.

Our thoughts are raw power. They are the basis of the phenomenon we call life.

If we choose to think in terms of anger and self-pity, our life will be one of anger, frustration, and sorrow.

If we choose to think in terms of grattitude, joy, inspiration, and just plain fun, our life will be one of great happiness and excitement. I challenge any skeptic to put this to the test for the next 30 days and see for themselves.

And I invite those in the know, those who already live by this philosophy, to share their thoughts as well.