Let Your Thoughts Take Shape

Who says you can’t create something good? We’re all thinking constantly; crafting in our mind. How would it be if…

What if we let our thoughts begin to take shape? What if you decided you could make the project you’ve been dreaming about. What if you decided to allow yourself to pick up the brush or pen and draw something you’d been thinking…to put the colors you’ve seen in your mind on a canvas and hang it up…just for you? What if you decided to borrow a children’s foreign language book and begin to learn a new dialect? You’ve always thought of doing it. What if you looked for a music teacher to learn piano or singing or guitar as you’d dreamed of doing someday. What if you turned over 1 square foot of soil and planted a dozen daffodil bulbs to brighten your mornings next spring? What if you took your neighbor a small house plant to add a bit of life to their home?

What if you only swept off your front steps or porch? What if you washed the inside windows of your car? What if you organized your toolbox? It might inspire you to begin building the birdhouse your wife would love.

All these ‘what-ifs’ began with a thought. Good thoughts, many good thoughts go unimplemented – never carried out! How many good things never happened that could have if only we let them take shape.

Yes, we are shapers of thoughts. If it’s possible to do your good thought, get started. Then begin and finish another thought and keep them flowing.

Your good thought could be a turning point in someone’s life…maybe yours.

Now back to what I was thinking about…

Work Therapy

The therapy of work. How does it work?

I don’t fully understand it. What I have experienced is when a problem gets me down – I am stumped – something is bothering me I cannot solve, if I get to work with some manual labor, it either eases the problem or solves it.

Back in the day the labor was done at the ironing board. Really cleaning of any sort will do the same thing. Then it became gardening, just digging my fingers in the dirt. Piano lessons were another. I could bang it out on the piano whatever was bothering me, and when the piece would get too hard, I would go out to the garden and start digging. When I came back in, my fingers were all limbered up and I could play through the piece too difficult before.

So I’ve come to the conclusion…rather than sit and stew, it’s better to get up and do!

Many hard projects have been accomplished this way. As the body works, the mind thinks.

Maybe that’s where the saying, “Work through your problems” comes from.