Stealing Ideas from Myself
This morning I began writing the words for today’s email. At the top of the page I wrote, “Theatre of the Mind Massage.”
Wait a second, I thought. I made a mistake. It’s supposed to read “Psycho-Cybernetics Mind Massage.”
Then I got to thinking, maybe my pen is talking to me; maybe it’s writing something different for a reason. Maybe today’s words are better than yesterday’s.
Our best ideas come from a variety of sources. We may think they are 100 percent our own, but even the letters and language we use are borrowed.
Stealing someone’s words is called plagiarism. It’s a crime.
But stealing from our own words, from our best ideas and memories, is legal, yet most people never do it.
When we steal from our best we feel good about ourselves. We feel good in the present while looking at something from the past.
Even better, we bring the energy from those words, ideas and memories into the future, and they do us a world of good.
Should I thank my “trusty” pen, for helping me steal from myself? As weird as it appears to be, I think so.
Ask yourself: “What words or memories that I used in the past, can be reused or tweaked today to make the world a better place?”
Matt Furey
