Bruce was WAY ahead of his time on this one. It was not until decades later that they developed measuring equipment sensitive enough to discover that an elite athletes thoughts affected their performance for several hours.
Your Thoughts
Imagine your mind as an empty space, like a house or an apartment. Imagine your thoughts as residents in this space.
Some thoughts are neat and tidy, clean up after themselves, sweep and vacuum the floor, clean the shower, bath and windows, put out the trash and generally contribute to maintaining the standards and improving things.
Let’s call them the Contributors. (One who contributes; one who gives or pays money or anything else of value to a common stock or fund; one who aids in effecting a common purpose.)
Some thoughts are squatters who pay no rent, do no cleaning and leave their trash everywhere. They reduce the standards in your space and are destructive.
Let’s call them the Detractors. (One who detracts, or takes away or injures the good name of another; one who attempts to disparage or belittle the worth or honor of another.)
The interesting thing is that you choose who lives in that space by the thoughts you allow to occupy your mind. What you do each day determines to whom you are opening the door to allow entry.
If you know what your basic purpose is in life, have a goal and each day make a list of the actions that will take you closer to attaining that goal, if you focus on your goal and concentrate on improving all the skills that will speed the accomplishment of your goal then you are populating your mind with Contributors.
If you watch the news, read the papers, get embroiled in arguments with people who cannot see the truth, get distracted by social media, don’t have a goal, don’t set daily targets to accomplish then you are opening the door to the Detractors. You are allowing them to populate your space and trash it.
Now that you know this, make sure to apply it. Fully. And reap the rewards of a better life!
If You Stay Silent
The Longer You Hold Out
One Thing Of Real Value
I was just today thinking that there are a great many people and organisations in the USA who are doing a very good job of taking responsibility for the destruction of the country, from Joe Biden down through the alphabet agencies, the CDC, CIA, DOJ, FBI, FDA, the Education department, the biased judiciary, all the way down to the Education boards and teachers who teach lies to the children. Then you have the Deep State, CFR, Soros and his many tentacles and so on.
Where are the people willing to take responsibility for keeping the United States created? Sure there are a great many fine people doing their job as is the case in any society. But we need some to step up to take responsibility for keeping the whole country created otherwise it will go down the gurgler.
Support The Right Thing
Social personalities support constructive activities.
Anti-social people support destructive activities.
Carbon in the air is constructive, it helps plants grow. The more carbon, the better they grow. As the atmospheric carbon increases so the planet becomes greener and less desertified.
Plastic in the environment is destructive. Plants absorb it and pass it on to us, fish eat it and it kills them.
Be a social person. Support carbon and support the removal of plastic from the environment.
Wake Up. Kick Ass. Be Kind. Repeat.
A Tale of Two Apples
“Today in one of our classes I introduced the children to two apples (the children didn’t know this, but before the class I had repeatedly dropped one of the apples on the floor, you couldn’t tell, both apples looked perfect). We talked about the apples and the children described how both apples looked the same; both were red, were of similar size and looked juicy enough to eat.
I picked up the apple I’d dropped on the floor and started to tell the children how I disliked this apple, that I thought it was disgusting, it was a horrible colour and the stem was just too short. I told them that because I didn’t like it, I didn’t want them to like it either, so they should call it names too.
Some children looked at me like I was insane, but we passed the apple around the circle calling it names, ‘you’re a smelly apple’, ‘I don’t even know why you exist’, ‘you’ve probably got worms inside you’ etc.
We really pulled this poor apple apart. I actually started to feel sorry for the little guy.
We then passed another apple around and started to say kind words to it, ‘You’re a lovely apple’, ‘Your skin is beautiful’, ‘What a beautiful colour you are’ etc.
I then held up both apples, and again, we talked about the similarities and differences, there was no change, both apples still looked the same. I then cut the apples open. The apple we’d been kind to was clear, fresh and juicy inside. The apple we’d said unkind words to was bruised and all mushy inside.
I think there was a light bulb moment for the children immediately. They really got it, what we saw inside that apple, the bruises, the mush and the broken bits is what is happening inside every one of us when someone mistreats us with their words or actions.
When people are bullied, especially children, they feel horrible inside and sometimes don’t show or tell others how they are feeling. If we hadn’t have cut that apple open, we would never have known how much pain we had caused it.
I shared my own experience of suffering someone’s unkind words last week. On the outside I looked OK, I was still smiling. But, on the inside someone had caused me a lot of pain with their words and I was hurting.
Unlike an apple, we have the ability to stop this from happening. We can teach children that it’s not ok to say unkind things to each other and discuss how it makes others feel. We can teach our children to stand up for each other and to stop any form of bullying, just as one little girl did today when she refused to say unkind words to the apple.
More and more hurt and damage happens inside if nobody does anything to stop the bullying. Let’s create a generation of kind, caring children.
The tongue has no bones, but is strong enough to break a heart. So be careful with your words.”
Words by: Mum in the Moment
Root Causes for the Fall of Rome
Your ‘To Do’ List For Today
So you’ve made a ‘To Do’ list for today. Well done! That is a major step to staying focused and getting done what is important to you.
Now, let’s look at how to improve it. Look it over and ask yourself these questions:
What is on my to do list that will…
Increase my lung capacity (the single best determinant of longevity).
Lift my spirits (the best defense against ill health is a healthy attitude).
Super nourish my body (the second best defense against ill health is a well nourished body).
Build lean muscle mass (increases strength now and prevents osteoporosis in later years).
Satisfy my urge to create (most important).
Help another.
Improve my skills.
Put order into my environment.
And if the urge come up to put off these as ‘not urgent to do today’, remind yourself that the urgent things are rarely important and the important things are rarely urgent.
Have a great day!