Choose - Guard - Train. I find this interesting ... If we consider who we become as being so much more important than anything else we achieve in life, why do we not give it more time and energy? Most of our time is taken up with sleep and work, then there's our other recreational activities, and TV can get a decent chunk of time. But self-development and personal growth often gets the scraps of the day, that little bit of time at night before we turn out the lights. For a large portion of our waking hours we can be consumed by the thoughts, words and actions of the world around us, either through social media or the people we interact with during the day. I know that it's not always easy for working people with young families to have the opportunity for quiet time, but I do know that if we charge into the day unprepared and ill-equipped, it becomes 'almost anything goes' with little or not so much control on our part. The very first step to sanity in our thinking and lives is in this one word ... CHOOSE! Choose ever so carefully what we allow to rent space in our minds. Not everything that seems okay is necessarily good for us. "Think long and hard about what you think about!" Things that lift you, build you up and take you to a better place. Choose these.
Cheers,
Andrew McLennan
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