"Perception Determines Outcome"

I have complete confidence in the statement, "Perception Determines Outcome", however, there is a general belief within the mechenics of it, that positive thoughts or seeds takes longer to produce then negative thoughts or seed, I don't agree. Both thoughts or seeds produce and grow through natural design of themselves, that they are what they are, they cannot influence themselves nor can they be influenced, they cannot be alter by emotion, honesty, integrity, or the opposite of those. They will become what they are, nothing more or less.

Lets start out by acknowledging that, perceptions is the general planting of thoughts that someday in the future that thought will occur. I believe that it is within this planting of thought, lies the timing of the outcome, I also believe it is where a lot of us experience frustration, in which most of the frustration is due to false expectations, or when we believe the outcome should have occurred or at least, began to turn around.

When we plant two completely separate seeds, the process or effort that it takes to plant these corrected and negative thoughts are equal. One being an acorn, the other a simple flower, but during this planting we'll sometimes fine that our expectations in both seeds are the same, and that is, we'll expect them to reach maturity at the same time. I believe this occurs because there is really no big difference in the actual size of the seeds, their both small in nature, and we have the ability to hold them in the palm of our hands and for this reason I believe we set ourselves up for future disappointment. We view these seeds, or thoughts as being the same by merely looking at the surface of the seeds, the size of the seeds or thoughts, and the effort that it takes us to plant these seeds. This is were it is most important that our perceptions be correct, we need to see the seeds for what they are distend to become, not how small and insignificant the may look at the time of planting.

If we perceive that the acorn will become a mighty Oak one day through its natural design of growth, then our expectations will be kept in check deferring unwarranted frustrations. This same analogy refers to the flower, if we understand that there is a growth period brought on by the natural design of planting, then our expectation will be submitted to the design that God created, and not by time schedules of false hopes.

Keep in mind that there is a natural growth period of visions and thoughts, just remember that the person who plants acorns will have a longer period between planting and harvest, then the person who plants flowers. Please don't misunderstand me, plant your oaks or great visions, allow yourself to see you as God sees you and watch what happens, just remember to plant some smaller flowers along the way, Its the continues smaller harvests that sustains us through this process of outcomes.

Author: Jerry Richmond

jerry@jerryrichmond.com