Thomas J. West Music

As I go along in this human experience, I grow continually convinced that our attitudes have a direct effect on what we end up experiencing.

There are many and varied definitions of the word "attitude" in its various contexts. My current working definition of "attitude" as it pertains to human beings is how you feel about what is happening.

Sometimes all it takes is a shift - making up your mind, and making a change, accompanied with the right attitude, for your experience to start gaining momentum in a new direction. Just saying you want to do it isn't enough. You have to have the accompnying feeling to go with it.

What is that feeling? Emotions get labeled carelessly with human words. The closest description is a feeling of gratitude, quiet joy, and anticipation. It's a feeling that is a reaction to what is happening now, in the present, that paves the way for more of what brings you that feeling in the future. The goal is to get to that feeling as frequently as possible, and as organically as possible. Force it, and frustration will be the eventual result. You can't pull one over on yourself. Keeping it simple,  sincere, and focused on the present is the key.

Recently, I made a small change in my pattern of behavior - I opened a separate bank account for all of my business transactions. That simple act had an accompanying shift in attitude that really was unintentional. It created a new feeling about money and income. The bank I chose for this account has orange and blue as its color scheme. I now associate anything having to do with that bank to having money in my pocket. And it's working.

The bright orange coffee mug they gave me when I opened the account, the free ball-point pens with the logo on it, anything that I can look at that gives me that feeling of gratitude, quiet joy, and anticipation with regards to money is what I am keeping my eyes open for. That shift in attitude, combined with focusing on activities that generate income and simultaneously foster that same feeling, is building momentum in a new direction.

That monetary shift in attitude is exactly what the United States needs right now.

Try a shift in attitude. Change something about your situation that allows you to feel diffrently about it. Amazing synchronicities will begin to happen. Opportunities will pop up that previously were elusive. Unexpected sources of income will show up. People and events that bring you more of that feeling will find their way into your experience. It works - it's how I found my last two full-time jobs. It's the "magic pleasant surprise generator".

Attitude is everything.

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