The thoughts and ideas we have going through our minds every day, actually every second of every day is what causes us to make the decisions that we make and the actions that we take in all aspects of our lives. Those thoughts and ideas we have are very much influenced by the things we hear and see going on around us, from the television, social media, things we read or hear. Where we currently are in our life and where we want to go, is a direct reflection of what we feed our mind. Whatever we feed our mind with, we start to believe it whether it’s good or bad and once we start to believe it we make it our reality. We have to become the gate keepers of our mind, constantly guarding what goes in, because what goes in comes back out in the words that we speak and the things that we do, which ultimately leads to the results we get. Garbage in gives you garbage out! If we’re not careful about the thoughts that we allow into our minds, either from ourselves or others, we’ll have life control us instead of us having control of our life.
So, what does it mean to feed your mind? And how do we go about doing it? It’s actually not as hard as we may think. There are so many different ways to get good, positive thoughts and ideas into our minds, that the most difficult part is choosing which way will work best with our individual, circumstances, personalities and lifestyles. Once we get that figured out, the rest is just a matter of implementing the habit or habits into our daily routines. The main objective is to be proactive by making the decision to work on it daily, even if we do it in small intervals. It doesn’t matter what method we choose, whether we read books or articles, listen to audio books or podcasts, watch videos of motivational or inspirational speakers, as long as what we’re reading, hearing watching, etc. is positive food for our minds. If reading is what works for you, start with even 10-15 minutes a day until you work up to 30 minutes a day, even if you read for 10-minute intervals three times a day. Listen to an audio book or podcast in the car on your commute to work or while running errands. It’s when we consistently do the small things on a daily basis that will we’ll see big results over time.
The more that we’re able to feed our mind in those ways, the more we’ll be able to guard our minds from negative, self-defeating thoughts. Like it was said before, our thoughts will come out in the words we speak and the words we speak will determine the things that we do and the things we do will give us the results that we get. In the end, positive thoughts produce positive results, negative thoughts produce negative results. We may not be able to control everything that goes on around us, but we can control how we react to what goes on around us, which starts with what we choose to feed our minds. We’ll find that the quality of our lives is determined by the quality of our thoughts, so it only makes sense to pay close attention to and make a deliberate effort to guard and feed our minds with good, positive thoughts on a daily basis.
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