Have you ever seen the movie, ‘Sliding Doors’?
It’s a film about a sudden twist of fate.
PR girl Helen is leaving work after getting fired. She drops an earring and in a split second she misses her London Tube train. But, in a parallel universe she makes the train. That subtle difference alters the whole trajectory and future of her life.
When she didn’t make the train she didn’t find her partner cheating on her when she got home. Having lost her job she had to take two part time jobs, found out she was pregnant and eventually realised her boyfriend’s infidelity and meets a sad and tragic end.
In the twist option – she gets on the train and meets a kind guy who finds her earring and they get chatting. After discovering her other half with his secret lover she splits from him but gets closer to the man she met on the Underground. Despite being in a serious accident, love conquers all and there is a happy ending.
I’m sure you are now asking what that has got to do with your mind.
Everything!
Subtle change = Big change.
Slight changes lead to a whole new direction.
Let’s say there are two airplanes flying from San Francisco to Los Angeles. If one of them changed their course by only one degree, it would miss the intended airport by 6 miles. If the flight was between Washington DC and Europe, it would end up in a completely different country than the first plane.
This is the compound effect of a slight change multiplied mile after mile. The magnitude of deviation, as it’s called, becomes greater and greater after each mile.
Now think thoughts and days instead of miles.
One current person down on his or her luck with a friend who is in the same boat. Apply the One Degree principle. Person one aims for happy times but carries on thinking and doing the same as always. Their friend doesn’t. They begin amending their thinking, gradually taking on their limiting beliefs, and generally improving their mindset.
In one year good old No.1 hasn’t gone anywhere. Their fixed lower thoughts have kept them in a fixed lower life circumstances. Not so their pal. They have begun to move in different circles. Their upgraded mindset got them more determined, more active, trying out new things, reaching and connecting more. Their life, day after day, has grown out of all proportion. They now live in a vastly, and more progressive world.
A subtle change repeated becomes a big change experienced.
Opening the doors to your future.
You won’t need sliding doors to open the doors to your future.
You only have to open your mind. That’s where your fate lies. In your own head.
It’s akin to taking one step onto a completely different, but brighter road, with every better thought and belief you have. In the end, just like in Sliding Doors, you will find yourself in a new reality with a totally unexpected, but massively positive, outcome.
Billy Joel trained as a classical pianist and had an ambition to create classical music as a composer. One day though he sat down to watch the Ed Sullivan show. His guests that week were The Beatles. Hearing and watching them he was both moved and transfixed in one. Right then and there he vowed to write more popular music and created a new style. His mind effectively put him on another plane (deliberate pun) so he would land in another music world from the one he had been existing in.
That’s for you too. You can jump worlds from one to another and fly into a very different future by changing your mindset.
‘What I want’, becomes, ‘What I am doing’.
‘Where I have been’, becomes, ‘Where I am going’.
Or profoundly, ‘Who I thought I might be’, becomes, ‘Who I know I am and always will be’.
And even, ‘What I feared’, now becomes, ‘What I am determined to do’.
So slide on into new thoughts, bigger beliefs, and an upgraded vision of what matters to you and what fires you up inside, and open doors everywhere for yourself to go. You have that imaginative power to form a brand new life soon down the line.
SuperMinds use The Sliding Doors mindset to open up destinations they weren’t going before.
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Five thoughts, ideas, insights, or quotes to power up your mind to think differently and creatively about life and who we are. Put all previous thinking away and open up a brand new world of the Supermind. YOUR SuperMind.
This week – Cost of Living.
Many things typify current life on Earth. Some have been around for a while, some are only recent. And the prime one among the recent is the cost of living. Not a week goes by without some product, service, or bill going up….and continuing to do so. It’s been a very long time since so many people at all levels are experiencing such financial challenge like this.
As such, SuperMind Saturday thinks we should get our minds round this contemporary concern.
1. World Worries.
Most countries have experienced periods of heightened inflation. Times when costs rose sharply far beyond incomes. Most of these were individual national cycles of expansion and reduction in the economy. One nation struggling, others more prosperous. Those days are in the rear view mirror nowadays. Due to bad management (or greed) by financiers, they have made it a cross world problem. Everyone gets the squeeze.
Is it time to return to national economic management? Should sharing debts and investments internationally by banks be banned or highly limited to protect vulnerable economies?
2. Living Beyond our Means?
The cost of purchasing every items like bread, butter, and milk have increased. So too the price of our energy and utility bills. But, look a little deeper and there is other spending people are making other than household outlays. In previous downturns that lifted inflation people cut their coat according to their cloth i.e. living within their means. No spending on what they really didn’t need. Not today. People still expect new clothes, meals out, holidays, social trips. What used to be luxuries are now classed as the norm.
Are we living beyond our reasonable means? Has the costs of living been replaced by the costs of pleasure and fun?
3. No Shrinkflation Profits.
Shirinkflation. A term that never existed ever until that last few years. It refers to how companies shrink the size of the product but still charge the same money (and even more in some examples). The price has effectively risen for the consumer while the producer gains in revenue and less production expense. It often makes the news especially in relation to big brand firms and supermarkets. During the last few years profits for some of these has increased through this practice. But they never tell us, they slip it onto the shelves all hush hush.
How do we protect the consumer from this underhand behaviour? Could we force companies to declare their shrinkflation items in advance so shoppers can make an informed choice?
4. Who is Paying For All This?
The world isn’t built on credit anymore. It’s built and held up by debt. Millions upon millions of citizens owe money on mortgages, credit cards, and other bills. Desperate to try and survive they have had to roll up debt to keep a house over the head and live there sufficiently. Debt used to be viewed as a bad thing. It appears it’s the very opposite in 2025. Debt is a normal function of economic behaviour. That’s a dangerous 180 flip.
Because if everyone owes, who is really paying for it? And what if they can never cash in? Is it all one big massive financial black hole that no-one wants to actually admit exists?
5. The True Cost of Living.
Poverty used to be a thing of the past. A historical social issue overall. That has begun fast reversing. Hard working people and families are being drawn into poverty because everything increases in prices but wages fall further behind. People who would never experience financial hardship in days gone by, find themselves in that predicament. So, some simple but profound questions….
Where are we going as a world when people can’t support themselves or family despite working flat out and to the bone? What direction do those in power really think we are going???
PLEASE SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS AND IDEAS BELOW!
Ok, that wraps up another SuperMind Saturday. Thank you for being here for the SuperMind time. Keep thinking about these through the week to open up more of your mind and its potential. Consider more, generate ideas more, think on bigger possibilities more, activate your connection to your personal higher mind. Employ your SuperMInd and Super Think. You have more answers and ideas than you ever previously thought possible!!
See you next time for more super thinking.
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Have you ever heard of mind assocation?
Probably not, but you should definitely get to know it because it’s been running your life for years!
Even though you have little idea what the phrase means, that doesn’t prevent it from being a constant in your life. In fact, in virtually all the thoughts and beliefs you have every single day, mind association is at work. At work and running the show.
What is mind association?
Well, to answer that before we move on, let me ask you a question.
What does money mean to you?
And there it is! In your response.
The Mind Associates, You Respond.
What was your answer to the question?
I could have added others such as what money is for and the biggee, on who it is for. But, that one question is usually enough. The second you heard the question, your mind association kicked in. The mind linked what you have been taught to believe about money or been influenced by your environment. And even the relationship you had with it when growing up all led to your mind associating a specific opinion, or certain beliefs and feelings, about it.
That could be (in the voice in your mind)…
‘Money makes people greedy, they become selfish and arrogant’.
‘I’m sure money isn’t for the likes of me, I will never have any in my life’.
‘Money is definitely all freedom and fun. It makes life more of a pleasure’.
And so on. The mind has associated x (money) with y (what it means) and put the two together to create a viewpoint in your head. Often a very fixed viewpoint you never waiver from. Try telling someone who has experienced damaging affects in family or relationships caused by money (fall outs, tightfistedness, debt from overspending) that money is a positive tool in life. Or another from a wealthy family that it’s a scarce resource.
These effects are hard to dislodge. Even harder is that until I showed you how it’s operating like this, you were completely unware of its presence in your life. You just believed what you believe. Or thought you did.
But that belief was mind association.
Unexplored Thinking.
We never question what we believe and why.
We simply take it as read and react accordingly. No enquiry, no self questioning.
If I told you that if you did you could free yourself from some of your long held problems, you might think again.
There are some very famous MA examples you’ve most likely heard of.
‘All men are a waste of time and can’t be trusted’.
‘Immigrants are usually criminals or here for an easy ride at our expense’.
‘I’m from a working class background, people like me are meant to just be the workers, not success stories’.
In most cases we are beaten before we are started. The end goal/positive outcome is never allowed to see the light of day due to mind association. When an important life area comes to mind (love, success. money, good place to live) the mind immediately fires a negative association as above and shuts the whole shebang right down, right there.
We accept that belief without ever thinking, ‘Hang on a minute, is that really true?’. Our thinking is never explored to seek out the source of those thoughts. One bad guy killed your chance for love but not all men are the same. After all some of your best friends have awesome husbands. The news only features bad immigrants but there are plenty around you who are great law abiding, tax paying citizens.
You get my drift.
Mind association is often a culprit not a good companion.
Time to Think Again.
It could be you need a rethink. Are you game?
If you are committed grab a piece of paper and a pen. We’re going to play the association game.
Write down some of the key areas of your life you are experiencing issues, especially long standing ones. Then simply scribble one or two words you associate with that situation. For example, a girl I was very close to had married young and was very scared at getting seriously involved again after a bitter divorce. Her nickname for me, someone she knew loved her? Pain!
For years in relation to money I would use the word ‘struggle’ (it became so). And on my own list next to ‘Home’ I wrote, ‘basic’ (I only owned a small apartment for 20 years).
Your turn. Be honest, don’t filter out answers. Take the first one/couple that you sense first. Be brave. Braver still ask a good friend or family member to write down some situations from your life (career, family etc) without your prior knowledge. It will be interesting what you associate with them in your answers with no prompts in advance.
It’s eye watering stuff I can tell you. It reveals so much of what is going on behind the scenes in you that’s blocking your happy path ahead. What the mind associates with, is what you experience. Or stop yourself from.
And you badly need to find out so you can get your best prospects back.
Because mind association is running, and quite possibly, ruining your life.
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SuperMind Thinking creates super people.
And women have been as super as anyone especially as it’s predominately been a man’s world in the past. Super successful, super inspiring, and supermind thinkers creating super true life stories.
Special women have always been making a difference and forging their own path with their insight and talents. They have carved fresh paths for all of us.
History credits men as having been the main instigators of everything from the car to the internet. That, though, is not only highly unfair to women, it’s incredibly selective. The truth is, women have been equally adept at using their SuperMind Thinking and producing some of the finest and supreme end results.
So, let’s delve into the SuperMinds of Super Women.
SuperWoman is Not a Fantasy.
For too long if you mention a Superwoman, most people would think of the Marvel hero. Or, in other words, a fantasy cartoon character.
Then the mind would then drift to Wonder Woman, an Amazonian princess, and so on. And so average thinking is already going down the wrong road. Superwomen are NOT some fun species or mystical film figure. They are, and have always been, ordinary women who have utilised the full capacity of their minds to forge monumentous results. And these are often amazing creations and developments that men have ended up taking the credit for, or not telling the true story of a woman’s genius that really made it all happen.
Have you heard of Ada Lovelace? Probably not. The device, however, you may be reading this post on or work with every day, was actually down to her work. That is, the computer. Yes!!
Charles Babbage has long been credited as the innovator of the first one. It’s true that Babbage had been experimenting with very basic computing machine contraptions before he met Ada with little success. She was the power behind the Analytical Engine (it’s prototype name) by creating the first programming language so it could actually compute. That first language was even called Ada after her.
Together they pioneered the technological breakthrough the world takes for granted today. In my opinion it’s an injustice that Babbage always get associated as the lone inventor when it was Ada Lovelace who made a dead thing come to life like no machine had ever done before. Even more super was that all of this was in the 1840’s, over 130 years before the computer industry as we know it today, came to wider availability.
As the British Science Museum stated, she..’was a Century ahead of her time’.
That’s a SuperMind of a Superwoman.
Historic Heroines.
Name a well known woman from history.
There are many household names of women in history who made their mark in some dramatic way – Rosa Parks, Marie Curie, Florence Nightingale, Oprah Winfrey, Emmeline Pankhurst just to mention but a few. But, hidden from view have been many unheralded heroines. SuperMind women whose contribution or role advanced humanity. Take these, for example –
Rosalind Franklin – the integral piece of evidence that proved the secret of life that is the double helix structure of DNA, was supplied by Rosalind through her photograph 51.
Elizabeth Fry – the ‘Angel of Prisons’, who campaigned in Victorian times for prisons to have better conditions as well as improving the hospital system in England.
Wangari Maathai – a Kenyan environmentalist who founded the Green Belt Movement and was the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Katherine Johnson – a key critical member of the NASA team on the first moon landing in1969. Her calculations helped correct the trajectory for the flight to the Moon and an accurate site to set down on.
In so many fields of life, women and their amazing minds have been there all along since the dawn of time.
Creating, innovating, breaking through, evolving, and pushing for change. Where would we be without them?
More Women to Come .
Times have changed. Women are a true power nowadays and growing in influence.
The stories above prove how humanity has benefited by the wonderful mindsets, talents, spirit and determination of women. This has just not been recognised enough. Or even promoted in the mainstream.
Well, not here on these pages!!
It’s time for women everywhere to step forwards and be given every chance and respect for their ideas, outlook, and creativity. They have a veritable Universe of potential and possibility within their minds. All of us need to encourage women to unlock this. Let’s provide them with opportunity and platforms to progress their SuperMind Thinking into reality for the good of all of us.
There has to be more women to come who will take us to brilliant places we have never been before. We have to open up their fabulous minds and let everything in there to flow so they can. Minds that are badly needed. THEY are badly needed. This is my call to the world.
Super women and their SuperThinking can change the future for all of us.
References – www.brittanica.com – Ada Lovelace, www.historyextra.com – 100 women who changed the world.
Wikipedia – Elizabeth Fry, Nasa.gov – Katherine Johnson Biography, NoblePrize.org – Wangari Maathai.
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Five thoughts, ideas, insights, or quotes to power up your mind to think differently and creatively about life and who we are. Put all previous thinking away and open up a brand new world of the Supermind. YOUR SuperMind.
This week – Aging Population.
The world is getting increasingly populated. Notably, every year more people are born than die putting pressure on resources, especially our social health ones. Greatest of all those pressures are how to deal with an aging population. Secondly, those that live longer and longer also no longer work and contribute to the economy in the same way, i.e taxes on earnings, work spending etc. This strains our social systems and that’s only going to get worse. SuperMind Saturday triggers new thoughts about this challenge.
1. Home or Hospital?
Modern hospitals aren’t just for treatment and health care anymore. They also tend to be where many older people end up stuck as there is nowhere for them to go after their surgery. Social services are severely stretched and have few placements for them.. One solution would be to offer tax breaks or payments to people who have spare rooms where they could be housed or stay. A form of home recuperation that unclogs the bottlenecks?
2. Brain Gyms.
One of the chief medical concerns with an aging population is declining minds. Alzheimer’s disease is on a rapid rising curve. Over the years since the inception of the internet, minds no longer work hard like they used to. Lack of use leads to a gradual decaying of mental faculties. Older people are highly vulnerable. It’s time for brain work to ensure the brain still works. The mind is as much as muscle as the others in the body. Governments should develop a programme of brain gyms for those over 50. Regular classes (just like Pilates or Zumba) to test, strengthen, and push the mind (puzzles, lateral thinking etc) and slow the degeneration.
3. Maturing Capital.
The cost of managing an aging population is spiralling. Instead, an alternative funding source to ease the burden is required. A possible suggestion to lessen fiscal pressure on Governments, health providers, and social care systems, – a specific set of future care investments can be created for people over 40. Part of the maturity of the investment/bonds can then be utilised to pay for future care or improved personal support. What other capital ideas could be set up to assist countries in paying for older person’s care?
4. Making Use of the Mature.
Growing old is no longer a death sentence. Retirees now a) retire younger and b) live far longer after retiring than ever before. That means there is plenty of life in older people. That’s why it’s called the Golden Age. They have a huge range of skills and abilities on tap and oodles of enthusiasm to go with it. They still want to be involved and part of the world. So why not put them to use? How can we find ways for them to fill in the gaps in the community where needed? How can we make use of the mature locally so it keeps them on the move and mentally and physically active?
5.Growing Old Disgracefully.
A lesser know fact is that aging people are most likely to be daily spenders on goods and services than other age ranges. They also travel more, access public spaces, and contribute to charities more than other age groups. This makes them pivotal members of society. Older people want to have fun and enjoy life. Perhaps it’s time then that we change OUR attitude to them? How many companies near you tailor specific activities for this growing force of people? Activities younger people also enjoy? And why not add twining session? Pilates for over 50’s and under 20’s TOGETHER! What ideas do you have to help older people live disgracefully (but very happily)?
Ok, that’s it for another SuperMind Saturday. Thank you for being here for the SuperMind time. Keep thinking your best thoughts and having lots of ideas. Consider more, imagine bigger, think about untapped possibilities ‘out there’, activate your connection to your personal higher mind. Employ your SuperMInd and Super Think!
See you next time for more super thinking.
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