Mental Factory

 Your mind is a wonderful machine. More powerful than any computer. But what's more important is what you feed your mental factory. You might ask, "What the hell does that mean??" Look at it this way. If you spend your whole life around unhappy, complaining, and pessimistic people, you will look at the world through the same lens. You might say, no not true, but it is. Constantly being fed misery, being around people who take zero accountability because it's never their fault, they can never get ahead in life because of ......... (Fill in the blank), following the herd of popularity while living their best life on social media, but deep down they are in pain. These people are the absolute worst to be associated with in any capacity. Their dream killers, hope stealers. I call them energy vampires. Don't eeeeeeeever tell these people any of your plans, EVER! I digress. Have you ever tried to have a debate with someone like this on a topic where both parties had a different point of view? How did it go? I'd imagine not well, and it never will. Why? Because they're miserable of course. But it's their mental conditioning. They've drank the punch, and are drunk on the illusion of entitlement, the world owes them something not realizing that the world doesn't owe you shit, or how their job is the reason they aren't wealthy because it doesn't pay enough and they dread getting up to punch a clock in a place that they loathe. Stay with me here, I'm not all doom and gloom with this post, but I'm trying to paint a picture for you. Now, let's look at a person who is surrounded by the complete opposite. They surround themselves with people who are creative, think outside of the box, are always exploring new ideas, trying them, and if it doesn't work, they look at what they've learned from the experience. They take away the positive and leave the negative behind. They talk about money, yes real friends do this, Not how much are you making at work, but how to actually accumulate wealth, in some cases on a generational level. They don't get mad if you don't respond to a FB message right away, a text, or even call them back immediately if you don't take their call. They challenge you to be better than you were the day before, and encourage you to set goals both long and short term. So, which group would you rather surround yourself with? I know which one I would, and I have. I've let those who are energy vampires behind, especially family. It's not that I don't love them, I just honestly don't like them and don't want to be around that kind of energy because we aren't the same. Your mental factory is the epicenter of mental health. It's like working out right. If you continually work out and you aren't seeing results, maybe it could be associated with your eating habits. Maybe you're not pushing yourself hard enough, or maybe overexerting yourself. It could be a number of things, but your drive will determine destination in the grand scheme of life, and to not believe so is naïve. Feeding your mind positivity can work wonders, create better long lasting friendships, relationships, and more opportunity just to name a few. If you want things to change, you have to change. That's the beauty of being human, we can change and adapt, for the better. This will only happen if you want it to happen. There's no rule on this, and there's no roadmap. Surround yourself with people that will help your mental factory not hinder it. Cut out the negativity. I have recently deleted all of my social media, except for twitter. I've tailored my feed to feed me positivity and to continually keep me out of my comfort zone. I want to get better every year like a fine wine, or preferably a nice single malt scotch! You don't have to delete your social media, but really start looking at it from a different perspective. Ask yourself, is this hurting me, or helping me, and how? Then get the ball rolling on cutting out the negativity and focusing on YOU. 

Here is a link to Dandapani, a great channel with meditation exercises and great real life tools to use,
check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/user/DandapaniLLC