edward fox's reality

My financial firm’s boss mails out a memo, usually one each weekday. I couldn’t believe how accurate the delivery of today’s message was in relation to the circumstances I’m going through… Check it out, and maybe it will influence you, too.

“Before you choose your goals, it is wise to first choose who you want to become. Throughout your life, you will be constantly changing and becoming someone new, either slightly or significantly different from the previous version. With each change you will move forward or slip back. For most people, change just happens. Change is considered an external event that occurs randomly and haphazardly, and there is very little that can be done about it. Most people unknowingly allow themselves to be shaped by their circumstances. But as James Allen Wrote in As a Man Thinketh, ‘Circumstance does not make a man, it reveals him.’

This is one of the most important laws of human nature ever discovered. Our circumstances are just a reflection of what is going on inside our private world of thoughts, feelings and beliefs. As we begin to change, our world changes with us. As we become better, our lives become better. Changing circumstances requires that you first change yourself. To have it any other way is to have the cart before the horse.”

I have noticed that a lot of people blame their circumstances on things around them instead of things inside them. Maybe we should all give that a little thought this morning. What do we want and what are we willing to do to get it?”

Those last two paragraphs sound like something I would write, but again, not from me, my boss it is.