3 Powerful Ways To Improve The Quality of Your Thoughts
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Summary
In this episode, I talk about how the quality of your thoughts determines your quality of life and how important it is to have a clear path to success. If you want to get to a place where you feel driven, certain, confident, on a rhythm, and find your flow, you need to get your thoughts into a good place.
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So today I'm super pumped. I want to talk about the quality of your thoughts. I want to give you
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some tips on improving those thoughts and make an argument that the quality of your thoughts
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will be a direct correlation to the quality of your life. Here's why, you know, growing up,
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I grew up in a really challenging environment where I didn't have a lot of positive influences
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on my life. I was hanging out with people that were twice my age, were addicted to drugs, were
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in trouble with the law. And a lot of my reality back then when I was a teenager was based on
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what I thought was normal. And I think what happens is we don't realize that when we're in
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those areas of, you know, fear-based decisions, scarcity mindset, lack, concern, is that we just
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think that's normal. We don't realize that not only is that not normal, it's abnormal, and it's
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not even what's possible. So, you know, I want to share with you the possibility that you can do a
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few small, really powerful tweaks to your habits to have a disproportionate amount of improved
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clarity and quality of thoughts and the cool part is is nothing out there in the world zero has ever
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been created until this inside here was good and that's been true for me in my journey the way I
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think about it is our brains are kind of this special vessel right it's it's like a bowl think
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of it as like a fishbowl I got this from my buddy Brad and it doesn't really matter what you put in
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So if you put high quality, positive, motivated thoughts,
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then it's gonna be this beautiful, clear liquid
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that it's holding, it's holding these incredible thoughts.
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then it's kind of like pouring a glass bowl of oil
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of oil into the fish bowl of clear water and this is what's crazy is that once the water's darkened
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and polluted for you to revert back to get back into a point where that fish bowl of water is
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clear again you need to pour even more thought so i want you to remember this analogy because
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not only is it important to understand that what we feed our minds it is it it literally will let
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anything in so it doesn't have a filter it will just let whatever you feed it in
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that if you had a clear mind and a great mind and if you think of children
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children are born into this world with possibility and excitement and
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creativity and over life life kind of happens to them to where they start to
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see limitations and fear and scarcity and all these things and to get back to
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clear out that water is gonna take more time than it may have took for that
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initial dump of bad ideas. So there's kind of three things that I look to that really helped
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me with the quality of my thoughts. Because if you want to get to a place where you feel driven,
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certain, confidence, feel like you're on a rhythm, that you're finding your flow,
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that you've got a clear path to success, you need to get your thoughts high quality, okay?
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So a few things. Number one, you got to remove the external forces. You need to audit your
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consumption of information. And I will tell you, if you're listening or watching the news,
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that would be the first place that I would look. If you read tabloid magazines, if you read
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gossip magazines, if you read or listen to gossip podcasts, literally all these things is like
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pouring dirty water into your clear bowl. And you think, oh, it's not a big deal. It's just
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entertainment. No, it's not. No, it's not. It's your thoughts. It's your thoughts drive the actions.
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The actions decide the quality of life you live.
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So you need to make sure that you're, you know,
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Adam said, it's easier to avoid the dragon than to slay it.
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to not, you know, let the news affect my thoughts.
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even it comes to your health or your wealth or good business decisions is that it is easier to
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not tempt yourself not put yourself in front of that situation than to try to figure out how to
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overcome it once you're there so avoid the dragon don't try to slay it so that's number one just
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remove the external negative opportunities to feed stuff into your mind that's how you're
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going to increase the quality of your thoughts that's one number two is that we need to visualize
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the future that we want why is that important well here's the way your brain works is you give
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it instructions for what's important to you you may not even realize this subconsciously you're
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giving it instructions you're saying that i care about these values i'm looking to get these
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outcomes if you don't have a clear vision for your life and a direction even if it's just like some
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pie in the sky dream if you don't visually look at it our minds don't think in words our minds
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thing in pictures. So if you don't give it a picture to focus on, even if you don't believe
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that you could possibly do it, that's fine. If you don't give it a vision for what's possible
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in the future, you want to create, then it can't start looking for opportunities to support you
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and help you. This is the cool part. It's kind of like if you decide to buy a red Honda, okay?
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You may have never prior to that point, decided I'm buying a car. Now you decide you want to buy
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a car. You want to buy a red Honda. The moment you decide to buy a red Honda, especially if you
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go to the dealership and give it a test drive from that point on you will start to see red hondas
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all around you all over the world literally like you'll start going like man i've never seen so
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many hondas oh my gosh i saw another red honda why is that because this thing called the
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reticulator reticular activating system your razz in your brain it's part of your your uh your brain
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function its job is to filter out all the noise because if you didn't realize it there's millions
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of billions of sensory information coming at you
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a daily habit where you have to look at your future,
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you're telling your mind to listen, audio, visual,
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The amount of times I've been sitting next to somebody
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some noise going on on a plane, it hears a voice.
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And for me to tap somebody on the shoulder and go,
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If you've ever had that kind of scenario happen,
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So if you wanna improve the quality of your life,
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increase the quality of your thoughts by programming it,
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and it matters the consistency of executing that practice
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Number three, increase the quality of your thoughts.
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that when you have it, that you can't be something else.
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You can't be angry and grateful in the same moment.
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You can't be sad and grateful in the same moment.
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you can't be frustrated and grateful in the same moment gratitude has this it's almost like the
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ability to wash away it doesn't make go away it just allows you to reset your focus and you know
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for me if I'm trying to visualize possibility and visualize creation and visualize success
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then gratitude for what I have today gratitude for the problems that's the next level if you can
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get grateful for the quality of problems you have in your life regardless if it feels like the whole
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You have a business and you had a key member quit on you
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or you had to fire somebody or your bank called you up
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and pulled your line of credit or whatever it is,
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And all of these strategies build on each other
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and it is very rare for me not to feel incredible,
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for not me to feel energetic and excited about the future
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And if you're not building this habit of gratitude,
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I mean, I literally have this right here on my desk,
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If you're not doing a gratitude journaling practice,
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I've been doing that for five or six years, you know?
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so your brain can go out there and start looking
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anytime you feel yourself drifting where you're like,
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You know, I get in these bad head funks sometimes
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I gotta get back to making it about other people,
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you habit stack yourself to a higher quality of thoughts
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or those thoughts lead to a higher quality of life.
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