(From Handbook For Humans)
Can you imagine preferring flowers in your garden but watering the weeds instead? Which plants will grow?
We might have a creative vision, but if we water other things each day they’ll grow instead.
Creative visions need a different kind of water than the kind that sprinkles out of a can—they need the water of our attention. Whatever we give our attention to each day is sure to grow.
It is our continued attention or lack of it that causes various things in life to expand or diminish.
To take it further now, let’s start by saying that the key word in the last sentence is the word “continued.” It is our repeated and continued applications of attention—in a word, our commitment to something—that makes the difference in producing it, in bringing it to life.
What we repeatedly reinforce is what we get. So let’s begin by looking further into the principle of reinforcement:
© 1997 by James Sloman
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