Rubbish in, rubbish out

Someone once said that the average CEO reads an average of 5 books a month. And I looked at that statistic, and then thought - wow - is that all? I must read on average the equivalent of 4 - 5 books a week. Reports, news stories, research papers, and yes - books as well. Now I am not telling you this to impress you. Just that it isn't hard to read the equivalent of a couple of books a week. What is hard is taking what you've read and translating those words into action within your own life.

If you want to get more out of life, you need to look at what you are filling your life with.

Now is a good time to take an inventory of what stimulus you put into your mind. What are you reading? What are you listening to? Who are you spending time with? What do you watch on the television or listen to in the car on the way to work? Everything impacts on everything else. Fill your mind with horror news stories and you will be feeling stressed all day - almost guaranteed, and most of the time you won't know why you feel stressed, but it comes from the things you feed your mind with.

Just as you know you shouldn't feed your body a steady stream of junk food, so you shouldn't feed your mind with the same. Not if you want a healthy mind that is.