10/03/2026
I met bestselling author and psychologist Dr. Wayne Dyer five times. I still have a photo of us together.
He once told a story that I still think about today.
Imagine someone hands you a million dollars and says you can walk into any store and buy whatever you want. So you find a rug you think is hideous, pay ten thousand for it, and have it delivered.
Then you go to a dealership, pick out a car that's ugly and uncomfortable, and send that home too. You keep going all day.
That evening you walk into a house full of items you can't stand, and you wonder why your life looks like this.
Wayne said, “The psychological term is for is you’re crazy!”
The real answer is that this is exactly how thought works.
We can put our attention on anything we choose. Most of us spend the day buying what's hideous and uncomfortable (focusing on stressful thoughts,) then wonder why the house (or our life) ended up this way.
He also said, “Trying to fix your life by rearranging what's outside you is like shaving in the mirror instead of on your face.”
Here's something you can do with that today.
Three times between now and bedtime, catch a thought as it arrives and ask yourself one question.
“Am I buying this?”
Not fighting it. Not arguing with it. Just noticing whether you want it in the house (or your head).
That's the whole practice, and it will take you further toward going with the flow than effort will, because effort is usually what we reach for once the room is already full of things we never wanted.
If you’d like the longer version of how those purchases get made in the first place, I wrote an insightful book about it called One Belief Away.
It's $9.99 and the link is in the Comments.
Thanks for reading…
:) Tim Shurr
