“As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.” It is never easy to think differently in order to perceive and then act differently. My thought constellation gets stuck in just that, my thoughts. Thoughts are past tense, thinking is generative. “Felt” is past tense, “feeling” is present tense and also generative. They say we have between 75,000 and 125,000 thoughts every day and that 90% of them are merely a recycling of what we already believe and think. The way out of some of our difficulties is to get into them through fresh thinking.

My thoughts adjust how I look and feel about the world. These adjustments change the way I then behave. My different behaviors are likely to stimulate different reactions from people and situations I face. These changes effect my interpretation and process of making meaning, and ultimately my core beliefs, and once my core beliefs change, I am different, and likely for the better.

What are we doing to think differently in the key situations and relationships we face today?