You learn interesting things when you’re stuck in bed with the flu watching daytime TV. For example: Did you know that Gretchen Bonaduce married Danny on their first date. You know Danny Bonaduce, right? Red-headed kid of “The Partridge Family” fame. That little boy grew up into a human trainwreck with a made-for-reality-show propensity for drug addiction, alcoholism, infidelity, steriod abuse and all other forms of debauchery. Gretchen stayed with him for 18 years before she finally called it quits.

She seems like a reasonable person, but how does a sensible person marry someone on their first date and then endure nearly two decades of living hell? She says a psychic foretold it. She met Bonaduce when she was working for a radio station booking guests for the station’s different shows. She booked a psychic for Bonaduce’s show who read his fortune and told him that he would marry Gretchen. Within a month that prediction was made reality.

I don’t believe in psychics. I think Jerry Seinfeld hit it on the head when he observed, “Do you ever wonder why you never see headlines like: Psychic Wins Lottery?”

Psychics can make things happen by placing an idea in someone’s head. That person then, possibly without even realizing it, begins to act in ways that make that prediction come to life.

I worked with a guy briefly who lived recklessly. He drove way too fast, chain smoked, partied like a rockstar and abused his body like a man who didn’t intend to live long. He didn’t. A palm reader had told him in his twenties that he wouldn’t live to see his 30th birthday. I lost touch with him, but if he made it to his third decade I would consider that more of a miracle than anything else.

The point is this–be careful what thoughts you allow in your head. What you accept as truth can work for you or against you.

One of my friends in the Pinnacle Society proclaimed at our April meeting that he had decided that the down economy was the perfect impetus for him to rededicate himself to his business and to work harder than he had worked in a long time. He said, “This will be my first million dollar year.” This declaration was made four months into the year. I just saw him three weeks ago and he has already personally billed more than a million bucks.

Your mind gravitates to your current dominant thought. Make sure yours are leading you in the direction you want to go. Thoughts lead to actions. Actions have consequences that can set the direction of your life. Just ask Gretchen Bonaduce.