The purpose of hiring a security staff is to filter the kind of people entering inside a building. For if everyone is let inside, only chaos would ensue. The same is true for our mind. If we allow ourselves to be distracted by every passing thought, there will be no mental space left to focus on the things that truly matters.
Imagine your mind as a live sports arena. If pitch invaders are let in constantly, how can the players focus on the game?
To do any worthy work, focus is a non-negotiable prerequisite. And to be focused, your mind needs energy. How will your mind have energy if it’s burning all its energy into numerous trivial thoughts? Aren’t you bound to feel drowsy and tired all the fucking time?
If this mental drain cycle repeats itself over and over, imagine the number of years we would waste being lost. And that’s why carefully choosing what to put inside your mind matters a lot.
So how can you achieve this? Ignoring distracting and unwanted thoughts isn’t an easy thing. What can you do to resist the impulse?
To turn on restrict mode to your mind, you need to appoint a virtual security staff. Before allowing a thought inside your mind, always have him ask,
“Is this thought going to move me forward in life?”
“Is it useful?”
“Can this thought help me pay my bills?”
“Will this thought help my relationships or help me solve a problem?”
If the answer is NO, then make no room for those thoughts. Be aggressive with the filtering process.
You might find it challenging to control these thoughts at first. But if you resist and give no importance to them, they will pass. As how a small boat in the ocean floats away.
It’s exactly like how you would ignore randomly flowing thoughts when you are meditating. To master this thoughts filtering process, I would also recommend doing meditation daily. It will train your Virtual Security Staff to do his job better.
With all that being said, it’s far easier to dismiss this whole topic as trivial. But remember, the cost of that is your life and wasted potential. It’s the Little drops of water that make a mighty ocean. You get the idea.
Don’t let useless distractions and people suck away your life’s precious youth. Wipe them off your life. You could do great things with that freed mental space.
So, what then, Choose wisely, Live well.
