What are you thinking?

I was lying in a wooden four-post bed in Litchfield, Connecticut when I went to turn on the television. But there was only one channel. The news. So I looked around the room for things to do while my girlfriend blew her hair with the dryer, and I found a copy of an old book. I don't know what the book was called, but I read a couple of pages, and it was about how to think the right way.

And this made me think…

Do I think correctly during the day?

I didn't make it far in the book but found one part interesting. The author discussed daydreaming, specifically the idea of thinking when you are not controlling your thoughts, like when you are mindlessly driving, and random thoughts continue to pop into your head. 

"What will I have for dinner later?" 

"Randy from accounting really has big ears…" 

"What is the name of that one Christmas song with the jingling bells?" 

These thoughts would be considered daydreams because you are not forcing them. Instead, your mind pops them into your brain like magic. 

Can we change the way we daydream? According to the author, no, because once you try to change your daydreams, you are using some active brain power, so it's not a daydream thought but rather an active thought. 

But, and there is a big but here. You can change your life's purpose because it is like a compass for the brain. Your daydreams will start to form around your inner desires. And your life's purpose doesn't have to be some grandiose plan about saving the world. 

It can be simple and authentic to you.

My daydreams usually revolve around my family, tennis, the people I love, and the occasional bad business idea. 

If you know me well, these daydreams make sense for the person I am, and I am cool with those thoughts. But if you don't have a passion, then your daydreams will be outsourced to life, and that's when things get tricky.

Because life without passion is a lot like the news. And nobody is really happy watching the news.