I often find myself wondering how it is that we have so many gym’s committed to peak physical shape and performance and can appreciate the efforts put in by both the company’s that run them and the athletes that use them. The benefits are outstanding in that many lose weight, gain muscle, feel great while some even look like Greek Gods and Goddesses. I am a huge fan of the gym.
My concern is the lack of mental gym’s. How can you ever attain Peak Mental Fitness? Yes, we have school, colleges and universities but they are designed in many ways to teach you knowledge but not how to think. By now we have come to realize that “thoughts are things” as per Napoleon Hill. We spend all day thinking some 60 000 thoughts a day, but like hamsters on the same wheel, we struggle to think new thoughts solely because we have not run“the treadmill of the mind”, to create new neuro-pathways to higher thinking, to deeper thinking, to analytical thinking, to possibility thinking, to focused thinking etc.
Here are some insights used and taught by “master minds” and “think tanks” that have solved many of life’s questions. Among many millions of solutions, these included curing diseases and creating vaccines. Creating communication platforms such as telephones, the post office and the fax machine to creating computers, email, cellular phones, text messages and Whatsapp and BBM messages, reducing both cost and time.
File sharing in real time. No more scurvy or plague. No more Mr. Postman. No more Fax machines. No more darkness. Hello electricity. Hello air conditioning, refrigeration, microwave cooking etc. These have made our lives simpler in so many ways. The greats created transportation, from cars that drive, to cars that self drive to cars that self parks. Hello air transportation and space transportation. All these and more were borne out of the minds of Peak Mental achievers. This was not achieved through hard work alone. Initially it was through thought, through analytical thinking, through deduction and many hours of mental gymnastics.
If its possible for them, then Peak Mental Fitness sure is possible for you and I. Here is how…
- Decide to become a quality thinker – Decide to think only quality thoughts that progress your plans, improve your actions and analyzes your results. Then act on your information, to create better results.
- Commit – Go on a 30 day mental gym schedule. Expand your mind, expand your horizons. For the next 30 days take up this challenge.
- Your mind is a sponge – Fill it all day long. Read and listen, not just in your genre and in your view point. Read beyond your comfort zone. Read views opposed to your own with an open mind.
- Challenge yourself – Change your circle of friends for a month. A different group has new dynamics, different perspectives and ideas which will challenge your own.
- Learn a new language, musical instrument or sport – By learning a new language, musical instrument or sport, you will learn a new set of skills. New, neuro-pathways will be created in the brain. It will get all areas of your brain activated and firing on all cylinders.
- Ask better questions – The quality of your life is based on the quality of your questions. Ask better questions. Who, Why, How, What if etc. Challenge your thoughts and ideologies. This questioning allows your subconscious mind the opportunity to answer them.
- Master your maths – Through analytical, numerical problem solving you fortify the skill of thinking through more and more complex problems. Solving them, improves confidence, understanding and application.
So start today and be among the few who do, versus the many who talk. Develop a strong, alert and athletic mind which will unlock doors of opportunities to you because you will recognize them long before others and will have created the required mental capacity to solve serious problems be they in your personal or business life. Be it at creating new products and services, be it at achieving your personal, business or humanitarian goals.
It was Malcolm X who said “The future belongs to those who prepare for it”. The time is going to pass anyway. Rather invest your time in your mental development and obtain Peak Mental Fitness.
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