Your mind is the key to your ideal future

Joining Neptune Orient Lines at the age of 20 as a Deck Cadet in June 1989 was one of the best things that had happened to me. My subconscious mind has worked for me without my own realization. Sometimes we feel that it is our fate that we are here at our present day but it is factually our own doing.

This is true if you realized how this life as a human being works.

About 3 years earlier, while I was still schooling, there was a day when I was with my friend Mohd Nasir when he told me a story of his neighbourhood friend Muniandy Rajah, who had joined the shipping industry as a deck cadet. He told me the story with such enthusiasm that he had planted the idea of sailing the high seas and travelling around the world into my subconscious mind. It is only now that I realized about this life experience while I am having my coffee at 5 am today.

We all have our experiences, the thing that we really don’t do is, we don’t really spend time thinking about the events which lead to the life experiences in relation to the kind of thoughts that had passed through our minds. Try recalling some of your experiences, you will be amazed on the things that you find out, especially when you realize and understand it was your own mind’s doing. It makes sense to me, when life coaches explain that the past created the present and your present will decide your future.

Upon completing 24 months sea time as a deck cadet, I have to complete my studies in Singapore Polytechnic, to get my Diploma in Nautical Studies and the license to sail in the merchant navy as deck officer. It was during this time that I came across Muniandy Rajah. Was it my destiny to meet the person whose name was mentioned to me when I was 17 years old? These events that happened in my life makes me wonder how my own mind had set the direction of my life experiences. Amazing, isn’t it?

Today, I spend time studying and researching about how our mind works, to know if it is all true that we can choose our own destiny of the ideal future. Studying metaphysics provides answers to many of the questions that I have. In the book, “Think and Grow rich”, Napoleon Hill had stated that whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve. He shared some of the famous people who had used this scientifically proven fact to achieve the ideal future that they wanted. One of the best examples given by Napoleon Hill was about how an ordinary person, Edwin C Barnes became the business partner with the greatest inventor, Thomas A Edison.

Slowly and surely, I started believing this fact. There are other experiences in my life that had proven, “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve”. My dream house, my life partner and so many other goals that I have achieved. The genius, Einstein quoted that, “Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world”. If you spend some of your precious time to learn and understand, you too can do many wonders in your own lives.

Remember that, it’s never too late to reset, restart and re-live your life. Your past is a history, your present is so important for you to get to the destination of the future that you dreamt of. Your mind is truly the key to your ideal future.

It is your mind that does everything for you, be it all the obstacles that you come across in your lives or all the achievement that you call success.

The best thing that you can do to get to your ideal future is to take control of your mind and direct it to that destination.