The Power of Thinking Inside The Box

By Emanuel D. Thomas

The Power of Thinking Inside The Box is a beautiful read that emphasizes the power of the Subconscious Mind. This book provides a multitude of applicable life principles that will help the seemingly average individual, like Emanuel Thomas himself, embrace the simple—mundane disciplines and principles used throughout their daily lives, to consciously program their subconscious mind in efforts to operate from it, and manifest their dreams into a tangible reality.

The Power of Thinking Inside The Box is very instructional, but not at all mirroring a traditional "step-by-step user guide" that most personal development books focus on. More so, this book is suggestive and gives the reader the option value of finding out what practices, principles, or methods will work best for them, throughout the entire read; Encouraging and empowering the reader to create their individual pathway to success, self-mastery, and solace.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Emanuel D. Thomas
• Release date: Aug 16, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463903919

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Wake Up To The New You

Embrace Your Rebirth

In the scheme of life, hitting the snooze button is not that big of a deal, but here’s the thing about life. None of us wake up and say, today is the day that I destroy my life.

Mel Robbins – Author/Motivational Speaker

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Like Robbins, we all tend to hit the snooze button of life, because we’re unaware or indirectly taught to believe that we can’t become more than who we’ve been. This finite way of thinking compels us to fear what we don’t know and stay inside the bubble of conformity that increases in size and destroys us over time. This amalgamation of conformity creates habitual complacencies that impair our ability to look deep inside our subconscious mind, and on demand, tap into the endless sea of potential that’s fostered within us.

I know this asphyxiated feeling of false contentment extremely well, being that I used to consciously deceive myself into believing that I had actually accomplished things in life that were worth me hanging my hat on. Sadly, that was not the case, and being this honest and critical with myself was a gut-wrenching awakening. Realizing and admitting to myself that I had been wasting my days away, was a pain that I couldn’t put into words, and it was simply because I didn’t have the healthy disciplines in place to change the unwanted life results, that at the time defined me.

I, like countless others, ceased to take ownership of my life’s shortcomings and disappointments by standing on the notion that I could play victim. I did so by blaming society, the government, family curses, and the lack of guidance rendered from credible people when I was younger—people who could provide invaluable insight on how to practice self-mastery and help me better understand how to kill the clichés, false dogmas, and racial stereotypes that life would place in my path. In other words, all the cancerous thoughts that had molded me into the fruitless being that I once believed and accepted myself to be. All in all, I stopped blaming external forces and came to the decision that everything that did or didn’t happen to me was my fault and it was time for me to wake up! Arise on my own, without an alarm clock, and stop hitting the snooze button of life.

…and I did just that.

Create Your Morning Ritual

For the past thirty-three years, I’ve looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself, if today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I’m about to do today; and when the answer has been no for too many days in a row; I know I need to change something.

Steve Jobs—Apple CEO

The 2005 Stanford commencement speech that Jobs gave was, and still is, one of the most powerful sermons I’ve ever heard in my life. Despite all the advice and best practices shared from Jobs to the graduating class throughout his time on stage, there was one talking point in particular that stood out to me. That talking point was his self-discipline, even though he highly underemphasized its importance while verbalizing his message.

The synopsis of what Jobs expressed, as he poured into the next generation of leaders, is that no matter what you do or don’t do in life—you’re going to die one day. So, why not do something meaningful and make the most out of your life while you have the chance to do so? This was great advice. His mentioning of death really put things into perspective for a number of graduates, but it also sparked an awareness in myself that I couldn’t deny. Something about death spoke differently to me after hearing Jobs, especially when I truly put into perspective how fragile life was. We’re here one second, and within moments, we’re gone, or we can be. Death not only became more real to me after listening to Jobs, but it also became a hell of a motivator.

As I redirect your attention back to the highlighted talking point that will forever be ingrained in my memory, learning that Jobs had the self-discipline to adhere to his morning ritual was very impressive—given how busy I assumed he was.

Hearing and digesting Job’s self-regulations on how he stayed committed to his particular ritual for thirty-three-plus years was mind-blowing. This was a man who was occupied with many different responsibilities that I’m sure demanded his undivided attention, but no matter how successful he became, he remained entrenched to the morning ritual that pushed him to live life beyond the status quo.

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How intentional you are in starting your day with a positive state of mind will either kill you or give you life. Later in this book, I’ll get into the specifics of why that notion is unfortunately truer than what most people would subconsciously believe. Think about it: Why is it that some individuals dread getting out of bed in the morning and others can’t wait to get up and start their day? What is the underlying cause that dictates one’s perspective to be proactive when he or she awakens, versus being reactive to whatever potentialities lie ahead once our front door opens—good or bad? Feeling puzzled? Don’t think too hard, because the answer is quite simple: IT’S YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND, of course!

Developing a simple new habit, such as creating and infusing a new ritual in your traditional morning routine, can vastly alter how the remainder of your day goes. This pivot in thought and dismantling of your old mental muscle-memory will be very unfamiliar at first, so look forward to a number of quarreling thoughts such as I can’t do this, this is stupid, WTF am I doing, or it will never work. Mentally, putting this new discipline into motion may feel counterintuitive, because your conscious mind is trained to redirect you away from anything that isn’t familiar, safe, or appeasing to your immediate consciousness. The renewing of your conscious mind, however, is exactly what you may need to practice in order to break old habits that don’t benefit you, as you aspire to feed your subconscious mind with blossoming thoughts of triumph and goal