The Winning Lottery Ticket

Recently I experienced a life-changing event and wanted to share it with you.  Last year I had the fortunate pleasure to read John Maxwell’s book – The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth.  In the book, Maxwell states that, “you can determine where you will be in five years based on the books that you read and the people that surround you.”  As an avid reader, that statement resonated well within me as I thoroughly enjoy learning something new on a fairly frequent basis. 

 

While I have many favorite books and authors, until recently I had only one book that I would emphatically state changed my life and that was Scott Peck’s – The Road Less Traveled.  It was in the pages of that book that I discovered my path in life and that I would become a psychologist.

And the winner is..

Most recently, I have been involved in a research project as a participant involving Stephen Covey’s influential text – The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.  As a result of that work with Covey, my research partner suggested reading Mind Power by John Kehoe.  I knew the moment I picked it up that I was eager to absorb all that he had written.  Little did I know at first read that this would be the next book that would forever change my life.  You can call it a game changer, a deal maker and above all it is the winning lottery ticket!

 

Kehoe explains, in simple easy to understand language, that in order to have everything in life that you want you just have to start by changing your consciousness and then feed it regularly.  He reports that reality will catch up and stresses that you must first change your consciousness. 

 

As a metaphor, think of this book as not only including the mental workout to achieve all that you want manifested in your life, it also gives you the food to feed it in one convenient place.  As he reminds us, this ability to choose our consciousness has been given to each and everyone of us to use or ignore – it’s our individual choice.  Kehoe and a multitude of other writers have said that same thing – this is how the universe works.

 

It has been fun to think about how many times in my life I had been reminded of this universal truth.  It’s in the title Napoleon Hill’s famous – Think and Grow Rich, it’s not the other way around; you have to start with changing what you are aware of, and what you are feeding yourself, through thought. My own personal journey to become a psychologist started in exactly the way Kehoe asserts.  I changed my consciousness that I was going to be a psychologist and then reality caught up and provided the means.

 

There are plenty of people in the world who do not want to believe this and will tell me that “life is hard” and that “you have to fight for everything you get!”  With a smile on my face and Kehoe’s lesson in mind, I casually respond with Henry Ford’s famous quote – “whether you think you can or cannot, you’re right!”  So if you keep telling yourself how tough life is then you keep feeding your consciousness that it is and just like Kehoe and Ford and a host of many others would agree – you’re right!  So do yourself a favor and go buy your lottery ticket and start enjoying your winnings.