“Out of the Box” Thinking

Do you ever wonder about the phrase “think outside of the box?”

I’ve been wondering about it for a couple of days now. I’ve decided it goes something like this:

Our thoughts are patterned; that’s for sure. Most of us have a routine, and that routine does not require us to think outside the box. So, our box is closed, whether you imagine: it as a hope chest or a cardboard box; it doesn’t matter, it is closed.

But let’s take a minute and imagine it as a hope chest. Can you see it? Your box of
thoughts is your hope chest. In it, there is a new or different thought. It’s kind of scary to see it because it might require you to lift the lid of your hope chest. If you do, a whole lot of new thoughts might be generated and, in that generative moment, spring out at you.

These new thoughts might require you to take some action. Oops, right there we get stuck. We start feeling anxious, and we shut those thoughts right down. We hurry to close the lid on our hope chest because if we don’t have to act, then we’ll never have to change our routine.

Our routine is more comfortable than acting on new hopes. After all,
who knows what will happen if we do something new or different?

So, we close our hope chest lid, and instead of acting, we substitute a new “faith” belief we can live by. That new faith belief begins with the word “someday.”

“Someday I’ll act on that thought, but I can’t do it right now because I’m too busy doing all the stuff I need to do to continue living my routine;” and, with that thought and the action of “I’m too busy,” we continue to live for someday.

This, in my opinion, is one of life’s greatest tragedies! Just think, what could we achieve if we learned a way to follow our new thoughts to the conclusion that we wanted? How grand would that be?

Guess what? There is a way to do just that. It only requires five steps. Knowing these
steps and using your self-discipline will get you whatever you can think of. Want to know them?

Call me or message me and we can work together to learn them.

What have you got to lose?

Dan –  (541) 325-2118