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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