What does your mind eat and drink every day?

Dear Reader,

I feel disappointed sometimes when I see today’s youth watching entertainment on Netflix, YouTube, Facebook, and even some news channels on TV; listening to songs during work hours, reading novels the whole night, continuously chatting with friends on WhatsApp.

Of course, I understand that sometimes we want to change our mood, relax, or enjoy but it should not become a habit.

In fact, some people get addicted to entertainment to a level that they eat, sleep, drink with entertainment. Without entertainment, they feel boredom, loneliness, and even depression.

Entertainment is good if it’s not causing harm to our thoughts, habits, and especially our work and productivity.

There is a concept in computer science called “Garbage In, Garbage Out (GIGO),” which means nonsense input data produces nonsense output.

The same concept applies to our life as well.

If you’re reading, listening, or watching mindless things, you can’t expect yourself to deliver quality thoughts and work.

There was a great book written around a century back called Think and Grow Rich. The author Napoleon Hill interviewed the richest people of that time to find out what is common among them. Most of these mega-rich people started from scratch. He found the process of becoming rich starts with what you think.

There was a famous quote in that book:

“Whatever your mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

Before this book, the general perception was people become rich only through inheritance. But this book changed that age-old perception.

The point is, success depends upon what your mind eats and drinks every day.

It doesn’t matter if somebody is rich or poor, every person has only 24 hours in a day. So, it’s up to us where we spend that time.

The secret of success is that it’s not 9 to 5, but 5 to 9, that decides how you want to live your life.

If you apply the 20/80 rule to your daily schedule, you’ll find that you have hardly 2-3 hours every day that is actually in your control.

Now it’s up to you where you want to spend these hours… in reading, listening, watching entertainment… or in becoming better at what you do.

And this is becoming more and more crucial in the age of information where we encounter so many messages, videos, news, advertisements, etc. every day.

Remember, we have only 24 hours in a day, and hardly 2-3 hours for ourselves.

So, here’s an exercise for you.

From now onwards, whenever you watch, listen, or read any entertaining thing… at the end of the program, ask yourself, “Is there anything I learned from this program that could improve my earning skills and increase my income?”

If not, then you know what you’ve to do next.

When you start applying this exercise daily, within a few days your subconscious mind will automatically start choosing what to watch and what not to watch, without even your conscious efforts.

In this way, you have trained your mind to not absorb any kind of garbage.

But this is just a first step.

Since you have to spend these hours somewhere, now you have to choose wisely where you want to spend these hours which you’ve freed from mindless entertainment.

Here comes the second question that you need to ask yourself:

“Where should I spend these hours which could improve my earning skills and increase my income?”

When you start asking this question to yourself again and again then within a few days you will definitely find the right answer.

And then you must congratulate yourself because you’re no more slave to entertainment.

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Best

Vibhor Asri

Persuasion Expert