A while ago, I watched the news video of a 3 year-old American girl who crawled into a vending machine and got stuck inside. The little girl was walking with her mother when she saw a toy inside the vending machine. She stopped and crawled inside the hole to pick up the toy. She got stuck inside until her mother came to rescue her.
Did I hear you ask 'what was her mother thinking'? Well, let's try to figure out what the 3-years-old was thinking. I guess her thought process looked like this: “Oh what a cute toy smiling at me right there"! The toy-thought progressed: “Why can’t I have that little toy? I want that toy”! She does a quick situation analysis and concludes: "I like that toy so much that I cannot let it go" Now, she has reached a decision point: “I am going to have that toy no matter what" She went inside the vending machine and got trapped inside, unfortunately.
The little girl's journey to the toy-vending machine began with a single toy-thought in her mind.
Just like that little girl, your daily “toy”-thought and my daily “toy”-thought whatever “toy” means to you and me, will lead us to our “toy” destination in life -good or bad. Every outcome begins with a thought and every thought has potential outcome. Our thoughts influence our decisions, our decisions influence our actions and our actions influence our outcomes.
