Be The Change You Want To See

Kathryn Lengell, RScP

Published in: TEAM Magazine, Vol. 1 No. 2

Today’s teens are the luckiest group of people walking the face of this Earth! Why? Because today, they have more awareness, they have today’s parents, and today’s amazing opportunities at their fingertips. There are endless opportunities to express themselves in positive ways, and endless chances to grow up and BE exactly who they wish to be.

Back in the “olden days”, kids were expected to follow in their parent’s footsteps and were quite likely to do so. If your Dad was a farmer, you would probably be one, too. If your mother was a stay-at-home mom, chances are she was instructing you on marrying well and becoming a parent who stayed home with her kids. If your parents worked in a factory, and things worked out well for them, they would be talking to their kids about leading the same kind of life.

But today, kids are watching their parents lead extraordinary lives. There are more and more entrepreneurs today, who are examples of what is possible, and those people are the parents of today’s amazing kids! Lucky, lucky you!

The advantage that today’s kids have is the forward thinking world they are growing up in. Teens today can see the evidence of success all around them, and they can challenge themselves to greater and greater potential because of the examples of individualism they see in the world today. No teen today is forced into one way of thinking. Each teen gets to plan his future, work toward his goals, and be encouraged by parents who think out of the box! These are very exciting times to be alive!

My message this issue is self-empowerment for teens. Through my studies, I’ve become aware of the law of creation going on in each person’s life. I now know that each day that you wake up, you start the day thinking, either silently or out loud, about your life. Each person thinks approximately 60,000 thoughts each day. By your thoughts and words, you begin to create what your day, what your week, and what your life will reflect! Did you know that you had this much power? Did you know that your thoughts create “things”?

Today’s consciousness allows you to “think out of the box”, to create the world you desire to live in, and to create your personal dreams and make them come true. If you decide ahead of time, before you even get out of bed, just exactly WHO YOU WILL BE, no matter what situations come to you, then you will experience the product of your thoughts. You may have a crabby teacher, or you may have a coach who demands better performance, but YOU get to decide how to BE during all of these encounters. You get to decide how or IF you will react positively or negatively with each situation. And that is exactly where your power lies.

We are all given “opportunities” every single day to PRACTICE who we wish to be. The traffic jam you sit in could be considered a terrible thing in your mind, or it could be considered that fabulous hour when you get to listen to your book on tape or list all of the things you are grateful for today, or it could be that extra time you really needed to think through the special school project just ahead of you. It’s all in what you decide it is, and it will definitely impact how the rest of your day goes and how your life is designed. If you don’t like what you are experiencing on a day-to-day basis, you have the power to change it, when you change your personal thoughts.

The power of your thoughts always creates for you, whether they are good thoughts or negative thoughts and it works whether you realize this or not. The most important aspect of knowing this information today is that you actually take part in creating your life! Why not spend your time designing what you’d like to experience instead of focusing on everything you dislike about your life, which creates more of that?

For example, let’s say you are deciding on which college you would like to attend, or even deciding that you’d like to be able to attend college.

You could think thoughts of “I’ll never get into that school, because I’m not smart enough and the tuition is way too high for me to afford to go there and I don’t think I could get in anyway”…and you will be creating this exact reality.

OR: You could begin to think “I’ve decided to go to this great college because it’s the school of my dreams, and I can get the best education there for my chosen profession, and I know it will happen for me because this is my goal” and creation begins to stir that formula for you.

To quote Henry David Thoreau, “As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives”.

You create your reality! You create it through your thoughts, words, actions and attention. You have all the power within yourself that you will ever need in order to experience anything you desire. The secret is out, and its out in your lifetime! You create your own life.

I challenge you, as teens today, to wake up to this fact! Whatever you focus on, you’ll have. So make sure you are aware of this, and focus only on what you desire to experience. Ignore and stay away from any thoughts at all that could bring you a negative experience in your life. The power is right within you, and it’s your personal responsibility to use it correctly! Ignorance of this fact does not excuse anyone. Acceptance of this knowledge empowers you! Choose wisely!

If you don’t like the way your life is going, change it by changing yourself and your thoughts. If you love your life but wish to fine-tune it, work on your outlook and your thoughts about your life! Get ready for positive changes to come to you, and open yourself up to the great experiences that are waiting for you. Miracles are everywhere, and some of those are for you!