Comments on: Positively Mind-boggling

By: Diane

Diane — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:25:27 +0000

Yes, I think you may be right there. It is, after all, easier to say that you ‘can’t’ do something than to say that you ‘don’t want to’ do something. We tend to be more sympathetic toward the person, who can’t do something than toward the person, who stubbornly refuses.

By: Peter Abolins

Peter Abolins — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:26:43 +0000

Thank you. The other way to look at this is that when someone insists that they “can’t” do something, they are really saying that they “don’t want to be able to, because they are afraid of the consequences”. Our society is still so much more understanding (unfortunately) with respect to underachievers, than it is to those who climb above the rest.

By: Diane

Diane — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:07:09 +0000

I have not read the book (perhaps I should!), however, I have read other books with more or less the same message. We create our own reality and, of course, we create it in our mind. The idea of our subconscious mind absorbing all these positive messages and forming our reality on the basis of them, is really very exciting. Negativity, in all its forms, is negative and that is hardly worth striving after. It is very interesting to notice that as soon as someone says, ‘I can’t do that!’, then they can’t; it is possible that they would like to, but they have already locked the door. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and observations.