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Nourish yourself

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That’s certainly with the right food, however, in this case, I mean with the right influences.

What we ‘feed’ our minds with is so important to our mental and physical wellbeing.

From the books we read, the people we connect to and surround ourselves with, to whatever is filling our minds, we need to make sure that it serving us well and having a positive input.

On average, we spend 35 hours a week in front of TV/Netflix/YouTube. That is nearly third of our waking hours.

Do we stop and question the value of what we are feeding our mind with for approximately a third of our lives? Is it junk food for our brain or healthy nourishment?

What if we took just a few hours a week to nourish our minds with something that will develop our mind, an investment in our futures?

What are you nourishing your mind with rather than just feeding it?

Greatness is now

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I’m reading the excellent ’12 Week Year’ and in part of it, there is a section about greatness.

I blogged about this (Our futures are now) recently. The result that happens in the future is not the moment of greatness. Your future is built now.

What we do right now is determining our future, so as Brian Moran writes in the book, what you do now is greatness.

Life is full of choices and what we choose to do now is how our future will be shaped, so what we choose to do to lead us to the result we want is greatness, not some event that happens in a year’s time. When the winner of a race takes the gold, that is not the moment of greatness, it is when she gets up at 5am to train in wet and the cold.

So we can be great now if we choose to and I don’t know anyone who doesn’t feel amazing about being great.

It’s up to us to make the right choices and stop putting things off into the future, now is the future, now is greatness.

What do you want to be great at?