My Riffs

Prevailing winds will shape the way a tree leans. It will shape the way the branches reach. Your mind is the prevailing wind of your life. You’ll lean the way of your most pervasive thoughts. Adjust your course by adjusting your thoughts. 

Thoughts direct our actions. The more control you have over your thoughts the more control you have over yourself. Your thoughts will eventually manifest themselves. Control your thoughts.

It’s hard to turn off thoughts. What you can do is get better and quicker at recognizing negative and toxic thinking. The better you get at recognizing it the quicker you can turn them off. 

It’s a new year and many are working on better health. Either by hitting the gym or eating healthier. I would submit the best thing you can do is detox your mind. Audit your thoughts closely and filter out anything that’s toxic. You can’t have a better quality life than your thoughts. So eating good, exercising and other health activities won’t do as much for you as cleaning up your thought life. 

The things we let live in our heads rent free cost us a whole lot. The thoughts we allow to accumulate in our head add weight and burden to us that is optional.

The loudest voice is your own. What you tell yourself you will end up believing. What's even more is your body will respond to what your mind tells it. People have made themselves physically sick by simply believing they are. People have recovered from sickness simply by finding things to be grateful for. Auditing the things we tell ourselves and cutting off the negative thoughts can alter our life and health more than any external thing.

Happy thoughts make for a happy person. There's no person whose ever been happy without happy thoughts. If you can't seem to find happy thoughts, you have to check your environment and circle. Are you surrounded by people whose dispositions are happy?

The quality of your life will never exceed the quality of your thought life. 

Wow! It's been an insane week!  I haven't experienced anything remotely like this in my life. I would say the world hasn't seen something like this in many regards since world wars. I'm not comparing this to world wars, but the world-wide fear maybe hasn't been like since since world war. Random thoughts... I do believe the saying that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. This is uncharted territory. Nobody really knows anything for sure. We're all guessing. But we should  pay attention to medical professionals. You can't deny the data. If anything the numbers are much higher than what is being officially reported. We're looking at exponential growth, not linear. Our world isn't used to not having instant answers. This is very uncomfortable not being able to have the exact, full answers. You can't google this one and have the answer(s). Our world isn't used to being patient. But this is forcing patience. Information ...