More About Thinking

Hi All,

I was sitting the other day thinking about some of the things I have done.

When I was a boy growing up during the Battle of Briton, my parents
and I lived in a suburb of London, England. The Germans were in the
start up of bombing England.

They started at first coming in the daylight hours As the bombers
were lining up on there targets, the RAF fighters would be trying
to shoot them down and then the German escort fighters would
go after the RAF Fighter planes.

It would turn out to be a huge dogfight with the fighters
crisscrossing all over the sky.

My thoughts at the time were someday I was going to fly an
airplane. I never really stopped thinking about flying a plane.

But the next thing I turned 18 and volunteered to join the
US Army.

I was able to do that because I was a US Citizen living in
England. (I was born in Buffalo, NY but that's another story.)

My changed many times over the next 21 years but I was always
thinking that some day I was going to fly an airplane. The year was
1963 and I was going to be 39 years old. So I started to think very
seriously about flying a plane.

As I was growing up and thinking about fly I would go over in
my mind how I would move the controls to make a plane do
what I wanted it to do. I really and truly felt that if I walked
out to the plane and got in I would be able to take off without
any lessons. (Talk about positive thinking)

One of the people at the place I worked was a flight Instructor
so I signed up for flying lessons.

I just had to share this story to point out that we really can do
what ever we want to do when we think about it in a positive way.

Anyway to wind this up I got my private license in 1964 with only the
minimum required flight hours. My Instrument rating in 1965. My
flight instructor rating in 1968. My instrument flight instructor
rating in 1970.

I taught many other students how to fly over a 30 year period.

So my point of course is WE BECOME WHAT WE THINK ABOUT.

Joseph