Sphere Of Influence

Last night's TV movie was The Sphere, a sci-fi thriller starring Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone and Samuel L. Jackson. It's the story of a group of scientists who enter a strange underwater sphere and find that they've been given the power to create anything they think about.

The problem is that all they can think about is what they fear the most... so all the things they fear the most are exactly what they get.

Frustratingly, having got themselves into a situation where their lives are being threatened by all the fears of all of them, it doesn't occur to any of these scientific minds that if they can manifest the things they fear, they can surely learn to manifest the things they really want, as well... like getting back to safety, fast.

Even though Dustin Hoffman's character says at one point, "Imagine what you will, and you can have it," not a single one of them ever imagines anything at all they actually want, but only what they don't want.

In fact, they do this to such an extent that when they do eventually make it back to safety the only thing they want to do with this great power they've been given... is to forget that they've been given it.

Because they can manifest anything they want, they simply manifest the way they thought and felt before they'd gone into the sphere, and they immediately forget their power.

"What we've manifested," says Dustin Hoffman's character when he suggests the idea, "is the worst of us, not the best of us. We aren't ready for it."

Well, the simple answer to that is - get ready for it, because whether you want it or not, that power is something you've already got. You were born with it, and whether you choose to use it wisely or to forget it, you can not get rid of it.

The story may be fiction, but the idea behind it's solid fact.

The sphere is your own mind. It gives you the power to achieve the things you want - whatever you focus on is what you get.

If you choose to direct your attention to the things you really want from life, then sooner or later they will come to you - you'll find the ideas, the inspiration, the motivation and the energy to take you there.

If you prefer to keep your mind on what you don't want, or the things you fear, guess what? Your mind will cause you to act in ways that bring those undesired outcomes to you.

Either way, you'll get the things you focus on in great abundance... so it's pretty obvious which choice to make.

You can't opt out. If you don't deliberately direct your attention and your energy, then other people will direct them for you.

If you don't control your own mind, others will (the advertising industry is all the evidence you need of that!).

Make a conscious and deliberate decision, right here, right now, that in future you, and only you, determine what goes on in your own sphere of influence - your mind.

It'll make all the difference to what goes on in your whole life, too.

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