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I read somewhere that we humans have up to 45,000
thoughts a day. I can’t vouch for the accuracy of that
figure, especially because I know some people who seem
to have no more than nine or 10. However, if it is true
that we have 45,000 thoughts, then you can see how pa-
tient we have to be about turning a pessimistic thought
habit around.
The overall pattern won’t change after just a few posi-
tive bounces of the brain. If you’re a pessimist, your bio-
computer has really been programmed heavily in that
direction. But it doesn’t take long before a new pattern
can emerge. As a former pessimist myself, I can tell you
it really happens, however slowly but surely. You do
change. One thought at a time.
If you can bounce it one way, you can bounce it the
other.
15. Light your lazy dynamite
Henry Ford used to point out to his colleagues that
there wasn’t any job that couldn’t be handled if they were
willing to break it down into little pieces.
And when you’ve broken a job down, remember to
allow yourself some slow motion in beginning the first
piece. Just take it slow and easy. Because it isn’t im-
portant how fast you are doing it. What’s important is
that you are doing it.
Most of our hardest jobs never seem to get done. The
mere thought of doing the whole job, at a high energy
level, is frequently too off-putting to allow motivation
to occur.
But a good way to ease yourself into that motiva-
tion is to act as if you were the laziest person on the
planet. (It wasn’t much of an act for me!) By accepting
that you’re going to do your task in a slow and lazy way,