You succeed in bringing to a natural and logical conclusion whatever thought you permit to dominate your mind. If you harvest a crop of poverty, sickness and disharmony, it is because you have allowed the negative seeds of such thoughts to become embedded in the soil of your subconscious mind. They have multiplied and brought forth fruit after their own kind. The law is operating in its natural, orderly fashion, but, unfortunately, you have planted the garden with weeds.
Take a look at the vacant lots in your neighborhood, or at unplowed fields: there, every spring, you will find a tremendous crop of fine, lovely, full-grown weeds. The seeds for these weeds have blown to these uncultivated places and automatically, assisted only by natural sunshine and moisture, have taken root and grown. No one has taken the time to dig them up and plant more desirable crops. And that’s exactly what happens to the average person who drifts aimlessly through life, without making up his mind as to what he wants. Seeds of all sorts of thoughts (weeds) drop into the soil of his subconscious from all the influences which he encounters in his environment, and he never takes the time to sort out the good from the bad, the desirable from the undesirable, and to eliminate all that is not desirable and replace it with a definite objective which he craves with a burning desire. Thus the weeds take over, and he never produces a worthwhile crop.
Your mind is never idle. It works all the time. It’s up to you to put it to work producing the things you want, rather than letting it run wild, attracting things you don’t want.
But once you have made up your mind to do something definite, adversities will still come along to prevent you from being successful, if they can. These are simply to test your faith. The more testing your faith endures, the stronger and more durable it will become. When such temporary defeats come, accept them as inspiration for greater effort and determination on your part. Carry on with the belief that you will succeed.
Source: PMA Science of Success.