“What we think, we become.” – Buddha

The mind is a very powerful tool that most of us are not using to it’s full potential (including myself), although every single day, we use our minds for either doing justice for the greater good or doing things to make our lives and this world a better place.

I know that what we think is what we become. Like take for example, if you say that “Oh I’m poor and I’ll never get anywhere with my life.” than yes, you will continue to be poor and not get anywhere with your life, but if you were able to change that thinking and say “I am rich beyond my wildest dreams and I am getting somewhere in my life.”

Now, I know this sounds stupid and it doesn’t work,  you say, but here, come take a walk with me down this beautiful path we call life.  I grew up dirt poor; my family and I were living in a two room hotel room in San Francisco. My mother was single and working as a janitor at a theater making minimum wage at the time. She had no high school diploma (she dropped out of high school at the age of 14), let alone a G.E.D., and she was taking care of two young kids (I was 5 at the time and my brother was 3) and just trying to make ends meet.

Life for us wasn’t pretty nor was it easy, I learned a lot of things in my childhood that has really opened my mind to a lot of different things in this beautiful world; one of them being Buddhism. I had to teach myself at a young age that school was going to get me where I wanted to be, so I told myself  “I am going to be successful in my life.” I told myself this hundreds of times in my 25 years on this beautiful and majestic planet we call Earth, and you know what? It’s because I changed my thinking that I have become this successful person but there is still a lot of work for me to be done with me, I am not perfect, but the Buddha was right. What you think, you will become.