In every area of our lives, our relationships, our families, jobs, businesses, communities, and nation, etc, those consequences show up!
This has been driven home to me with great force over the last several years. Everything that we are and have become in our lives up to this point is a direct outcome of the ideas in our heads and how we chose to operate accordingly!
Our success or failure in every area of our lives is a direct result of the ideas that we have allowed to be put into our minds.
As an example, we are mentoring a couple of dear friends right now who are struggling in their marriage. They are two great people with good hearts, but as we work through the challenges they have, they all stem from having some incorrect ideas about how a relationship should function. Those ideas have produced a set of very undesirable consequences in their marriage.
Think about the economic mess that our country finds itself in right now. It can be traced directly back to the application of some faulty ideas of both personal and national economics.
Every painful mistake, trial or challenge in our lives is a result of a faulty idea applied somewhere along the line in our thinking process.
Conversely, every victory, success, or positive experience in our lives comes as a result of stringing together a succession of correct ideas and acting upon them.
We cannot get positive, pleasing results by trying to build upon faulty ideas. It's just not possible.
One of the greatest problems in our society today is our unwillingness to accept that there are basic truths or principles that are unchangeable. They always have been and always will be. If we either willingly or unknowingly attempt to obtain a desired result in violation of those principles, it cannot happen.
A human being cannot jump off a cliff unaided by some flying device and think that they are going to arrive safely and without injury at the bottom. It cannot happen. It will never be able to happen because it is a direct attempt to operate while ignoring the principle of gravity. We cannot change that, no matter how much we want to ignore it unless we employ another idea like the laws of aerodynamics and create some type of device to allow us to harness those laws so that they also work in harmony with the law of gravity.
It's a lengthy discussion I know, but this point is critical to our happiness and growth in this world!
All ideas do have consequences, either good or bad!
In 1764 there were 4 young men in the American colonies:
Thomas Jefferson was a young college student just suffering through a broken heart from being dumped by his girlfriend.
John Adams was a young teacher, happy to be teaching and leading a nice comfortable life doing what he loved.
James Madison was just a 12 year old kid, showing promise in his studies but extremely shy.
George Washington was a young man trying to establish himself as a businessman and farmer.
A decade later, these four were leading a group of others to write and sign the Declaration of Independence!
A decade after that, after being victorious in their revolution, they were penning and signing their names to what has been called, the single most significant document in the history of the world, The Constitution of the United States of America!
Why? What changed a simple group of ordinary young men just like you and me into some of the "Founding Fathers?"
It was ideas! The discovery of, discussion about, then choosing to act upon correct ideas led to the creation of something monumental!
What about you and I? What is our destiny? Is there a mission out there that awaits us? Were we sent here for a purpose? How will we find out? Will we just wander through life and see what happens? Or will we set out to discover the true ideas that may lead us to do our part in this world?
Maybe it will just take one great idea to fix some significant problem in your life.
Maybe you have a company or family to lead.
Maybe you were called to do something important in this life and you haven't even glimpsed it yet.
What ever your destiny, remember, Ideas Have Consequences!
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Remember, All Ideas Have Consequences!
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