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What are your rights? Do you have rights? Do we have rights as human beings? Never before in the history of mankind have we had so much freedom as we currently have in this country. Never before have so many had the opportunity to succeed or fail as we have now in this country. There are still parts of the world that don’t have these freedoms, so depending on your dictator you may have no, or maybe some rights. The right to freedom must be purchased and has been purchased throughout history not by money, but by bravery and heroic acts and beliefs that have changed the world.
But the most important of all of the rights that I would like to explore are the rights you have for yourself.
You can think the thoughts that you want to think. It is your right to think anything that you want. You can think negative thoughts or positive thoughts. But you are talking to yourself all of the time, and these thoughts are hardly ever neutral, so you have the right to have your own conversation that is either positive or negative.
Your success or failure depends on what you think- it is that simple. If you think failure, you are going to have failure. Your thinking is so much more than just positive or negative.
You think about change and make choices or non-choices about that change. Sometimes we even think everything is perfect, and that right now, we don’t want anything to change in our lives. I hope you have had that thought perhaps at least once, but then what happens? Change, whether you want it or not, comes barreling down the road right at you.
So we all have the choice to think what we want. No one can tell us what to think. We can think that the world is flat, or that the world is round, or that the world is pear-shaped. We can think whatever we want. And by thinking about what we want, we get it. If we want a better relationship we can have it. If we want a better job we can have it. We can have what we think about because it will manifest itself in our lives if that is truly what we want.
I wanted to be an author, so I had to sit down and write. Sometimes what I write is good, and sometimes what I write is bad, but it is something that I want very badly so I do it, and the more that I write the better I get- so says the editor. I study my craft of writing and work at it every day. This is what I truly want and if I truly want it, it will manifest itself to me. But certainly you have to be prepared to have failure, because it is going to happen, and it is going to test your resolve. But keep thinking and if you have some talent you will manifest what you want. There are many people in the world that are of average talent who succeed because of what is in their minds.
Just like you. What do you really want? Once you determine this, you can then use the techniques to acquire what it is that you want. In today’s world you have the right to think about the things that you want, and what you want to accomplish.
And it is all in your mind. Ask any successful person what they are thinking about, what they are telling themselves, and why they believe that they can be successful. The answer is that successful people talk to themselves in a positive manner. Now don’t get me wrong, you wouldn’t be human if from time to time you didn’t have some doubt. I think we all have doubt, but we can overcome it. What are you putting in your mind every day?
Use your self-talk to be positive. If you are going to use up your energy for the day, why not use it in a positive manner rather than a negative manner. Be scientific in how you treat and talk to yourself.
I know people who when they get depressed go shop, or go eat, or do something else to distract themselves. This is ok in moderation, but many do it to extremes. They spend and eat their way into other problems.
This is your right to do this, but why would you? I know I hear people say, “I am depressed.” Well, you are going to become more depressed getting fat and broke. Instead of doing something that could be potentially damaging to yourself why not try something different. Try developing your character. Decide what values and future goals would be good for you.
Deciding what kind of character you want to have is your right.
Deciding what kind of values you want is your right.
Deciding on what kind of goals that you want to achieve is your right.
Your characteristics are yours to mold and make a part of you. Your characteristics distinguish you as a particular individual distinct from all others, just as groups or even nations are distinguished by their characteristics. We as a nation are made up of all of our individual characteristics. What do you want to be?
It is your right to develop yourself or not. You can use what we call Dynamics to move and give energy to your plan of life. You can decide the process that is going to move your intellectual, physical and moral forces.
You have the right to do, and be, determined, enthusiastic, and persuasive. Not only for yourself, but for the people around you in achieving and dreaming about what you want to be.
You have the right to be mentally prepared for success. You have the right to decide how you want to comprehend the facts around you, and how you want to interpret the truth and the realizations around you for what is good for you.
You have the power to develop yourself, to unfold and plan, to grow your personal wisdom and develop qualities, and discover your potential in this adventure called life. You have the power to decide whether or not to do all of these things.
You have the right to discover and gain knowledge. To gain skills and competence over our minds and bodies.
Philosophy of You
All of this adds up to your right to own and have your “philosophy of you.” The why and how you live your life. And to have success in your life, which is the accomplishment of something that is important in your life.
You have many rights that no one can take away from you because they rest between your ears, in your mind. These rights will make a difference in how you live your life.
You have many rights that cannot be taken away from you by anybody. You have the right to think and be who you want to be. So who do you want to be like? The hood, the criminal, the thief, and the evil? Or do you want something else in your life- the good and the kind. Those achievements of the human race can be yours.
What kinds of decisions are you going to make for yourself? It is your right to decide; No one else can make you decide anything that you don’t want to.
I suppose this is not what you might have had in your mind when I posed the question, “What are your rights?” Perhaps you were expecting the constitutional rights that we have in this country. But those rights change with law, and the evolving national characteristics that we develop over time and argue about in politics and social settings change over time as well.
The only true right that we have as human beings is over our minds. And we can exercise this right any time and in any way that we care to.
What too many of us don’t do is exercise our rights to our own thoughts, We allow others to do the thinking for us, or we think less of ourselves than we should.
I have a friend who works with children between the ages of Kindergarten and Third grade. They asked a thousand kids from across the country in these grades if they thought they were a good person. Sixty-five percent of the kids answered no. I asked my own child who is going to be five in a month if he thought he was a good person, and he answered yes. Whew, that was close.
Who works with children on the philosophy of personal achievement? I am not sure anyone does. When does a student take a philosophy course? In college some may, yet how a person lives their life is going to depend on the “philosophy” that they have. Don’t you think we should have some training in the field that will affect the lives of the many?
But instead what do you have in schools? Who explains the rights to the children that they have to be able to think for themselves to discover what personal achievement and development can be theirs?
We squeeze out their imaginations when children are young, and we teach them to be realistic in what goals they set for themselves- heaven forbid that we encourage them to be what they want to be. We teach them our truth of being less than they could be so they don’t get hurt in life. We want them to live long and prosper, and save them from themselves. We want them to become more than we are, but not necessarily what they want to be, so we tell them to become doctors, professionals, to be the chiefs. “This is your new truth: what my truth for you is.” Of course, this is not all bad. We want them to realize the greatness of America, of our educational system, of our hopes and dreams. Yet at some point they are going to have to live their dreams and hope, realize what might be their own truth. And how do we prepare them for failure, or success in their lives?
How do we teach children that they can have a wonderful life, when their life may not be so wonderful right now? Many would say that you have to leave it up to the parents. But what about when the parents have not learned the thoughts of being successful. How many of us can do a little bit better in life by using the Four Dynamics? Would it not be possible for everyone of sound mind?
We believe that many people need professional help from time to time in life. You should consult a professional therapist for those needs and not be afraid to seek out their help. But the rest of us need to tune the machine that we call the mind with positive, exciting self-change messages that make our futures different from our pasts. Someone has to help us, someday in the future maybe someone will be able to get a special pill, or an electric jolt, or a mind machine will hook up to change the mind that we have into one that is special and productive. Maybe not. But as we learn more about the mind I do know that we control our minds more than we think- or shall I say, as we think we control our minds.
You have made a choice or you wouldn’t be reading these words, but who else needs to know this information? My son does before he grows up, so he can begin participating in things that are going to be important to him in the life that he chooses to live.
Do we explain to our children how the mind works and how it can be used for them to have a life that they would like? Can all children have this? Yes, if they choose to. They have the right to decide what they want in life, but if no one explains to them how it works, what will they be as they grow older, as they start to explore life’s adventures for themselves?
I am sure that the children of today have the right to understand the positives that can help them achieve more. Why didn’t anyone tell me about this stuff? I could have used it much earlier than I did, and could have done many more things with my life.
Life is an adventure and you have the right to explore this life of yours, and not give it to someone else.
You have the right to think anything that you want.
You have the right to make your life something that you want, not what someone else wants.
You have the right to imagine anything in the world that you want to be. If you want to be President of the United States, why would you settle for anything less?
You may not get everything that you want, but why would you work for less? And will it be any fun to want something, and then settle for less?
You have the right to settle for less, but again why would you? You have the same opportunity as anyone in America and you can capitalize on the opportunities that America has.
You have the right to be negative, to beat yourself up for the mistake that you made last week for the rest of your life. Or you can decide that you want to concentrate on the successes that you have had in life, and figure out why the failures were failures and move yourself forward today.
Just a few minutes ago I got off the elevator of the building, and I held open the door for someone to get in. They got in and I had already pushed the floor that I wanted to go to, and knew that this person did not want to go there, so I asked them what floor would they like. They told me, and then replied, “I can’t walk through life with a clue, or someone helping me.” I know they meant it as some kind of humor, but what message are they recording to themselves when they say these kinds of things. I know they are trying to be funny, or that is their way of saying thank you, but why not just say thank you and leave the disparaging remarks out?
We have been programmed to say these types of things so no one thinks we are too full of ourselves. It is a way that we communicate to people to let them know we appreciate them and are grateful for what they have done.
It is your right to do this, but let me suggest to you that you don’t.
Use your right of mind to tell yourself the good things about yourself and not the bad. That you can accomplish what you want to, and if you don’t then you still have the dignity of having tried.
I have had people laugh at me when I have failed, and I bet you have too, and to them I ask “What have you done in life? Why would you want to laugh at somebody else’s misfortune? You have the right to, but wouldn’t your time be better spent doing something else?”
You have a lot of rights. How are you going to use them? When do you stop trying to make the life you want your own and do it?
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