The Role of Thought in Employee Motivation

As managers we need to make certain all the people we want to motivate understand the role of thought in life. There is nothing more important.

Consider this exchange:

A: I'm depressed

B: You just think you're depressed

A: Same thing... it feels like the same thing.

B: It feels like the same thing, because it is the same thing.

A: What if I thought I was really happy?

B: I think that would make you feel really happy.

A: I know it would.

Why is it that the rain depresses one person and makes another person happy?

If things "make you" feel something, why does this thing called rain make one person feel one thing and the other person feel the other thing? Why if things "make" you feel something, doesn't the rain make both people feel the same thing?

One person you lead might say, "Oh no, bad weather, how depressing." Another person might say, "Oh boy, we have some wonderful, refreshing rain!"

Why? Because the rain doesn't actually "make" you feel anything. (No person, place, or thing can make you feel anything.)

It is the thought about the rain that causes your feeling. And throughout all your leadership adventures, you can teach your people this most important concept: the causal power of thought.

One person thinks (just thinks!) the new pay plan is great. The other person thinks (but just thinks!) the plan is depressing. Nothing in the world has any meaning until they give it meaning. Nothing in the workplace does either. Your people often look to you for meaning. What does this new directive really mean?

Do you sense the opportunity you have?

We can make things mean anything we want them to, within reason. Why not not use that power?

People don't make your employees angry; their own thoughts make them angry. They can't be angry unless they think the thoughts that make them angry.

If your nastiest employee wins the lottery in the morning, who's going to make her angry that day? No one. No matter what anyone says to her, she isn't going to care. She's not going to give it another thought. Your employees can only get angry with someone if they think about that person as a threat to their happiness. If they don't think about that, how can they be angry?

Your people are free to think about anything they want. They have absolute freedom of thought.

The highest IQ ever measured in any human being was achieved by Marilyn vos Savant, many years in a row. Someone once asked Marilyn what the relationship was between feeling and thinking. She said, "Feeling is what you get for thinking the way you do."

People feel motivated only when they think motivated thoughts. Thought rules. Circumstance does not rule. The closer your relationship to that truth, the better the leader you are.

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Religious Fundamentalism Can Create Problems

Religious groups can easily justify their actions by using religious text to benefit and promote their beliefs. The Muslims can sling quotes out of the Quran to justify their treatment towards women as second-class or even third class citizens in society, often removing certain rights from them because they weren't born men.

Shouldn't these women be treated equally. This is where religious fundamentalism evolves into religious fanaticism.

Christians can often use the same tactics to justify their beliefs and Christianity. This list goes on and on and has created hardships in the past on some people in our civilizations and will continue to do so in the future. As long as people continue to turn a blind eye to evil religious and government leaders, atrocities will take place and some of them will even be supported by those who eventually will become accused are victims of their own wrongdoings.

Does anyone remember the Ku Klux Klan? If you live in the south eastern part of the United States, there is a very good chance that you have heard of them or even know someone who belongs to this organization. The Ku Klux Klan was responsible for hanging African Americans throughout the early 1900s to prove that the white race was superior to the race of black people. Their religious beliefs fueled them with righteousness.

If this going on anywhere in the world today, may be issues about abortion or gay marriage. It seems like an oxymoron, if we allow gay people to get married, we won't have to worry about the abortion issue.

Some Christians, but most Americans look at this as a shameful part of our American heritage. It's not something that most Americans would ever support today. I would like to point something out about the Ku Klux Klan, they started out as a Christian organization and made examples out of other white people who weren't conforming to their ideal Christian society.

There are stories of people that abused their wives and the Ku Klux Klan set them straight, one way or another. If it required beating the crap out of them or killing them, something needed to be done and they are morally obligated to perform the task as Christians. These people took their Christian beliefs to an extreme.

When are we as a country and the world going to start fighting religious fundamentalism at its core and stop the atrocities that are going on today, using religion to justify their wrongdoings.

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The Law of Attraction - Finding the Inner Path to Success

Many of today's brightest stars attribute their achievements to something inside them, which gives them an outlook and approach to life that attracts success. There are many versions of the law of attraction, each stressing the importance of "positive thinking" and making the most of every opportunity. Overcoming negativity and becoming a happier, more productive person is part of the law of attraction. People who live this way expect good things to come their way and they exude confidence. They tend to go from one success to another because they are energized and have an attitude that fosters good vibes. When they counter the unexpected, it doesn't impact them in the same way because they believe better things are headed their way.

Most people start life with positive attitudes. Ask any child to complete the sentence "When I grow up..." and be amazed. Yet at some point something happens and they stop believing in the "I think I can, I think I can..." mantra of the little engine. The few that never stop believing or manage to reclaim the optimism of their youth are the movers and shakers that make things happen. These people have a magnetism that draws others near and makes them eager to hear to what they have to say. Take any winning coach and you will see that it is not their techniques alone that enable their team to achieve victory after victory. It is the result of a "can do" attitude that influences the whole team, inspiring confidence and persuading others to dig down deep and give their best effort. To be a winner is something that begins inside you, as you stubbornly determine you will do what it takes to realize your dreams and refuse to give up, whatever comes your way.

Inside every person lies tremendous potential. What distinguishes an extraordinary person from an ordinary person is their attitude and approach to life. No matter how much knowledge, training, and ability you have, these gifts will remain latent if you are unable to tap your potential and take action. The principle found in the law of attraction can help you decide to actively pursue your dreams and become the person you know deep down you were meant to be. If you are complacent, grumbling, or resigned to your fate, regrets may haunt you for the rest of your days. Asking yourself where you want to be in five years, and then pursuing those personal ambitions is possible. You may be looking for wealth, fame, simplicity, or something else in your pursuit of happiness. Simply start by cultivating the inner resources that will motivate and empower you to live each day to the fullest.

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Reality Creation - Breaking Down Barriers

What really stops us from fulfilling our dreams? What separates the people who know they want more out of life from those who have it all? It's as simple as believing in yourself. The concept of positive thinking is not a new one. I think deep down we all know that transmitting good thoughts will attract positive and promising situations in our lives. This is explained simply enough in many different belief systems such as the Law Of Attraction, The Seth Material, most major religions and countless other lines of thought where an "instant karma" effect takes place. Positive attracts positive and negative attracts negative. Sounds simple enough, right? It's just an easy thought process that is enriching, rewarding and doesn't cost a dime. So why isn't everyone thinking this way? Why isn't creating a positive reality for ourselves full of riches and opportunities "all the rage"? For some, thinking positive thoughts and believing in themselves can be next to impossible.

Why does it seem so difficult to think positive thoughts? Why is negativity so easy compared to positive thinking? The Law of Attraction states that positive thoughts expand energy attracting more positive influence from the Universe, and negative thoughts constrict energy reducing the flow of positive influence back to you. I believe that both positive and negative thoughts originate from the same part of the brain. Both take the same amount of energy to produce the desired results and outcomes. Heaven on Earth is a real place easily created with just a thought. It is just as easily created as the "Living Hell" that so many find themselves in everyday. Have you ever tried to make a miserable person happy? It is quite the task. Negative people make all the excuses in the world to hang desperately on to the negative thought process:

* "You don't know what it was like for me growing up"
* "No matter what I do or think, something bad always happens"
* "I always seem to make a bad choice, affecting my relationships, job opportunities, and personal growth"
* "You were just born happy......I'm not like that."
* "You are just lucky.......I'm not"
* "I used to be happy, but that person doesn't exist anymore"
* "How can I be happy after all that has happened?"
* "Easy for you to say...you're not me."

Negative thinking people are in no hurry to change their thought process anymore quickly than positive people want to be miserable.

Who in the world wants to feel the hurt, guilt, and depression of a "Living Hell"? I know I don't. But for some, it is a comfort zone. Negativity is a valid and viable emotional thought process that is equal in its power to positive thinking and its need to be expressed. The Universe is made up of light and dark, yin and yang, up and down, back and forth, negative and positive. It is perfectly and completely balanced. On an atomic level, negative and positive ions are the perfectly balanced building blocks of life and matter.

They attract each other for a mutual gain. Negativity is a valid expression of thought. And negative people are expressing an important and valid emotional process that they have to experience to be balanced. Not just balanced within themselves, but balanced with all the positive expressing people they share this Universe with. If everyone all thought the same way, how would we realize how precious and needed our own thinking would be? More easily put, how would we appreciate all the good things if there were no bad things to compare it to?

In our enlightened, yet desperate attempts to spread the word of positive thinking, reality creation, and attracting happiness, we need to understand our whole selves. There is no right or wrong thinking... we are just expressing whichever thought process that we have to in this life, at this moment, and in this incarnation to be balanced. Our soul has to experience every aspect of the human condition to be whole and complete. Opposite energies create the precious opportunities to appreciate all that the Universe has to offer. Negative thought need not be changed, but embraced.

All thoughts, good or bad, are equally powerful and need to be experienced for completeness of soul. Negative people are attracting negative energy to themselves, it's true. But when the pendulum swings on it's own to the other side, which it always does, the same people will have new experiences to learn, to live, and to complete their "Earthly duties." Their souls will be more complete and make our Universal awareness and appreciation that much sweeter. Embrace whichever thought process you are experiencing in the Now, revel in the power of reality creation, and paint your next moment of where you need to go to make your life complete and perfect!

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Collaboration Creates Harmony

Sometimes unwittingly you might engage in a power struggle, both at home or at work. These conflicts often stem from an unconscious desire to retain control of your circumstances or surroundings. However, your strong-willed and defensive approach to solving issues, may cause you to come up against a stronger resistance from perceived adversaries.

When you let go of your need to be in control and engage in a collaborative strategy that will help you work in tandem with others, rather than against, others you will notice that together you can create powerful solutions that allow you each to have your needs and desires fulfilled. You will feel your defensiveness disappear as you seek out a fair and balanced workable solution.

When you cease pushing against those with whom you are involved in struggles for dominance, the conflict dividing you from one another, eases, and you can begin working on an equitable solution to your differences. Hostility only engenders more hostility, blinding you to the cooperative and fair strategy you can use to diffuse aggression.

By avoiding to provide any more resistance, you create a situation in which cooperative energy can flow. Once the blockages that existed between you have been eradicated through the channel of your openness, you can begin communicating with your adversaries. As you gain a new understanding of one another, you are each empowered to devise a universally beneficial resolution. You will gain the power to dispel conflict when you recognize that letting go is the ultimate antidote to anger and conflict.

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The Devil and the Mystery

Most Christians know more about the devil than they know about "The Mystery." Even so, they do not know any more about the devil than they should know. They should know more about him, so that they can truthfully say, with Paul, "We are not ignorant of his devices" (II Cor. 2:11). Certainly every Christian should know more about "The Mystery." God wants every Christian to know "The Mystery," and to make it known to others (Eph. 3:9). You say, "Then it would no longer be "The Mystery." Certainly not. Why after over 2,000 years should this divine truth still be a mystery so far as ninety-nine per cent of God's people are concerned? Can you answer this question? It is true that the devil doesn't want any one to understand or even study this divine truth. But is not God's will to be desired by Christians more than Satan's? Doesn't God's power exceed the devil's power? Satan is mighty. God is almighty. Genuine spiritual Christians know that God's power exceeds Satan's power.

But let's take an inventory. As we take in the world-wide political situation, the distress of nations, with even the so-called Christian nations on the verge of bankruptcy and destruction, we may wonder that Satan has such power after 2,000 years of Christianity. But we believe that Satan knew what he was talking about in Luke 4:6 when he told the Lord Jesus that the kingdoms of the world were under his control. The Lord was right when He called Satan "the prince of this world."

When we consider the millions and millions of people of the world religiously, and see what the devil has done to them, surely we give a hearty "Amen" to the statement of I John 5:19, "the whole world lieth in [the evil one]." In his tricks to keep sinners away from the saving gospel of Christ, Satan is called "the god of this [age]" (II Cor. 4:3,4). To accomplish his purpose with people who want some kind of a so-called Christian religion, the devil transforms himself into an angel of light and instructs his servants to pretend that they are missionaries of Christ (II Cor. 11:13-15).

Then let us consider what the devil has done with Church members who are actually members of Christ's Body, God's one and only Church today. Note God's instructions in Ephesians 4:3-6:

"Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one Body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling: one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all."

Meditate"the unity of the Spirit." Where is it found? One faith, one hope of your calling, one baptism. One Body. How many sects and denominations? Several hundred. How many bodies? One Body. Note Ephesians 1:20-23:

"Which He wrought in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead, and set Him at His own right hand in [the heavenlies]. Far above all principality and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: and hath put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be the Head over all things to the Church, which is His Body, the fulness of Him that filleth all in all."

Christ is in the heavenlies. Christ is the one Head of His one and only Church, which is His Body, "the fulness of Him that filleth all in all."

No matter how loyal, zealous sectarians may defend and contend for their denominational churches, the student of the Word of God knows that "denominationalism" is absolutely unscriptural. There is one, and only one, true Bible Church and that Bible Church is denominated, The Body of Christ, "the fulness of Him that filleth all in all." In Ephesians 3:6 that one Church is called the "Joint-Body" (see the Greek).

Members of Christ's Body are seated with Christ in the heavenlies and are blessed with all spiritual blessings in the heavenlies (Eph. 2:6 and 1:3). One reason why God wants all men to see "The Mystery" is expressed in Ephesians 3:10,11:

"To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in [the heavenlies] might be known by the Church the manifold wisdom of God, according to the eternal purpose which He purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord."

The Mystery then, is divine truth concerning "the heavenlies" and "according to the eternal purpose which God purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord." By searching the Scriptures we find that this divine message was not in fulfillment of prophecy, but was a spiritual program predestinated by God before the foundation of the world.

We have seen how Satan works politically as "the prince of this world"; how, as "the god of this age" he blinds the unbeliever to keep him from believing the gospel of salvation. In Ephesians 6:11-20 we learn of Satan's spiritual wickedness in the heavenlies, his opposition to the message and the messenger of "The Mystery," divine truth concerning the heavenlies. Note Ephesians 6:11,12:

"Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places [in the heavenlies]."

And note Ephesians 6:19,20:

"And [pray] for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak."

Why was Paul a prisoner of Rome? Hear his own words: for "the mystery of the gospel." Read this again in Colossians 4:3,4 and hear his testimony in Ephesians 3:1-3:

"For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles. If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God, which is given me to you-ward: how that by revelation He made known unto me the Mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words)."

Note God's Word in Ephesians 3:9:

"And to make all men see what is the [dispensation] of the Mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God."

Here we see "the dispensation of the grace of God" and the dispensation of the Mystery are linked together. This glorious truth was made known by revelation to the Apostle Paul, who became the prisoner of Jesus Christ for the Gentiles. Do we appreciate what he suffered for us? Let's get into the Book and try to understand the message for which he suffered.

While Paul knew that religious men were opposed to "The Mystery" and were determined that he should not preach that divine truth, he knew that he was not wrestling against flesh and blood; that his real opponent was the devil as the ruler of world darkness in the heavenlies.

Paul wrote in II Corinthians 4:3 and 4 that Satan blinded minds. But note his request for a very specific prayer in Ephesians 1:17,18:

"That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him: the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, that ye may know what is the hope of His calling, and what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints."

Paul did not want minds blinded to "The Mystery." He knew that it required a special spirit of wisdom and revelation to comprehend that particular glorious truth.

Yes, the devil succeeded in getting Paul in jail for "The Mystery," bound as an evil doer unto chains. But from his prison cell he wrote: "The Word of God is not bound."

God wants you to know and to make known this glorious truth...which should have ceased to be a mystery more than twenty centuries ago.

This article originally appeared in the Berean Searchlight, the free monthly magazine of the Berean Bible Society. For over 60 years, the Berean Bible Society has been proclaiming the good news of Jesus Christ according to the revelation of the mystery.

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