Your mind is sacred territory, and you need to carefully choose what you allow inside. Tablets, smartphones, computers and televsion have an endless supply of content that they are pushing into your mind, and much of that content is toxic waste.
Great lives are built on great thoughts, and miserable lives are built on drivel and hype.
When we should be filling our mind with great ideas, we spend our time filling our minds with mental toxic waste. Our minds become dumpsters.
God gave you a brain designed to think great thoughts, and the toxic media of the twenty-first century turns it into a trash bin.
There are two problems with putting toxic waste into your mind.
1. It fills your mind with thoughts that are unworthy of who you are. Unfortunately, once you put the garbage in, it's there forever. You can can't unthink, unsee, or undo anything that gets into your mind. Once it get's inside, it will never leave. That is why PTSD is such a problem. You can't go into rewind and disengage.
2. Unregulated and unlimited media is a time waster. Wasted time is a trash bin in which you throw what could have been. If you watch televsion and cruise the World Wide Web for five hours a day, that is five hours you will not be working on your dreams. There are only twenty-four hours in a day, and the way you use each hour is a choice. Choosing to do one thing, means you choose to not do something else. You can't have it both ways. You can have your dreams or you can have your daily dose of media, but you can't have them both. It's one or the other.
Many people think I'm a little hard on media. After all, it's only chewing gum for your mind, and perhaps they are right. Some people want to live in Nowhere Land and don't want to do anything with their life. A wide screen high definition television is an excellent way to anesthetize their mind so they forget about their dreams.
Entertainment is not about great ideas. It is the antithesis of great ideas.
I don't want to be entertained five hours a day. I want to engage life and make my dreams happen. I want to change the world.
I don't want other people to manipulate me and choose what gets into my mind. I build my future thought by thought, and the most important thing I do every day is choose which thoughts I allow into my mind. I cannot imagine why I would want to turn my mind over to media moguls and allow them to choose what gets inside. Just the thought of them pushing their stuff into my mind makes me feel ill.
That may be ok for some people, but it's not ok for me. I'm constantly on the prowl looking for great thoughts that I can put into my mind, because I know that great lives are built on great thoughts.
I've built my life on a few great thoughts.
I believe that everyone has the ability to achieve excellence in at least one area of their life. I chose medicine as my area of excellence.
I believe that I can change the world one person at a time, one website at a time, one graphic at a time, one podcast at a time, and one eBook at a time.
I believe that the most important thing I do in my life is raise my children, and if my children grow up to have good values, if they have good self-esteem, and if they are still my best friend, then I am a success.
I believe that sailing around the world with my family on a small yacht was one of the smartest things I ever did. It showed my children that it's possible to live their dreams.
I believe Land Rover Defenders are the most awesome expeditionary vehicles ever built. It's never over in a Rover, and God willing, I will drive one around the world.
Finally, I believe there is no limit to how good my life can become.
That's my short list of great thoughts. What's on your list?
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