Your mind is a weapon.
And you gotta begin to use it and control it.
Most people are out of control with their mind,
they don't point it at something,
they let the world point it
and they misfire all the time.
You have control over your mind,
you just have to assert it.
You have to decide that
you are going to be in control.
That you are going to do what you want to do.
And if you understand the mind it does what you tell it
that's its job.
And if you tell it better stuff, you have an amazing life.
And if you tell it mediocre stuff,
you have a mediocre life
Because there are some things in your life
that will make you run,
that slap you out of your stupor and say,
this ain't no time to cry.
So you got to get used to being a little disappointed.
You got to get used to walking in the situations
and being flexible,
because if you are not flexible
you cannot survive.
And all of a sudden, life demands
that you pick up the pace.
If you don't pick up the pace,
you going to be left behind.
Because almost all problems can be solved
if only you take the time to see them
and think them through.
That's very easy to understand, and it's very easy to say,
but it takes strong character to put it into practice.
You live in a world that's flat and two dimensional.
In other words,
the impatient person lacks all sense of perspective.
Perspective lets you measure your plans
and current events against things
that have already occurred
and also
against your desires and aspirations for the future
Then and now
here and there
near and far
need and no
watch and wait.
These are the dual optics
that allow the patient man to see in stereo
where the nearsighted person sees only the present
or the dreamer scenes only
and imaginary future,
and more likely than not
trips over his mistakes trying to get there.