Make a list and check it... at least twice a day!
In Malcolm Gladwell's book blink and in Cialdini's Influence, we can begin to tangibly appreciate the power of the mind- for our better or our ill.
Self-help, health and success books abound with the positives of making lists, but like many other good ideas this day in age the beauty and simplicity of this tool for our health and success has been commercialized and abused, much to Cialdini's warnings.
Where these two ideas converge, mind power and pollution, is in understanding the strength and capacity of our mind. Enter Santa.
Look what he can do by isolating himself from the commercial nonsense and information overload (read the North Pole) and just make lists and check them twice!
An oversimplification perhaps, but hopefully you get the idea. The power of the mind is incredibly deep and expansive. If harnessed and focused it can literally take you to the moon and beyond.
So sit down, alone or with your children or loved ones and make a list each morning. Make two for that matter, one for those chores and to-do's of daily living and one for dreams and goals, near and far off. Nurture your dreams, give them this fuel and congratulate yourself for every check-mark along the way. Choose to harness your true and infinite potential. Choose to take action consciously and unconsciously, choose to stay well.