Are you putting good seed in your head? Why you are your biggest enemy

There was a moment in my life that I had no idea that I was the one actually stopping my chance of acheving my goals.

Me?  Stopping me achieving?  Why would I do that?

You are reading this and I can almost promise you that you are doing exactly the same thing right now.  How do I know?  Well we all do it.  We all do this thing that stops us.

That is part of how the brain works.  We as humans, have the ability for amazing dreams and nightmares.  I loved the film Contact and this is what Jodie Foster’s characters dad says to her when she meet him (it’s not him but the other race of people).  We have the ability to create whatever we want in the world and make our world as we want it.

The challenge is deciding what to do with that ability.

I was sat in a presentation once and the speakers were a very successful couple.  They were farmers who had started a business and now didn’t need to farm anymore!  Anyway, he said a concept I hadn’t thought about.  Being a boy from middle England I didn’t know much about farming.  What he said was so simple and just so powerful.

“When we were farmers we knew that if we didn’t use good seed and sow it in good areas of the field then we wouldn’t get any crop later”

Now I know that seem so obvious but when this ex farmer said it in his simple yet powerful way it really made me think.

Firstly I thought wow that is like in the Bible  - You reap what you sow.  I had never really stopped to think about that saying.  We all use it all the time and I didn’t really think about what it really is about.

The other thing he was saying is if you don’t put good seed in then you won’t get good crop.

And this is exactly what the point is.

I have spent so many years creating goals, hitting them, missing them, re doing them etc (this is what you should be doing if you want to succeed) but what I didn’t realise is that I was also putting negative and irrelevant stuff in my head.

Let me give you some examples: -

• TV
• Negative friends
• Newspapers

These are some obvious ones.  But the point is if you are filling your head with this crap then you will get out what you put in.

The brain will only work on what you feed it.  Why give it this?

I am not saying for a minute that I don’t read magazines or watch TV.  I do.  But I am very careful about what I read and watch.  Google news is bad for me.  When I go on that page I always read the news!

So I should stop going to that?  YES!

Your personal development plan should include what you are going to stop doing.  Maybe stop watching so much TV?

TV is one of the worst problems we have today.  We all have done it.  Go home, get changed, put the TV on and that’s it.  That is what we are doing until we go to bed.

Our brain is a very complex thing, but it needs simple instructions.  All day long it is learning about what you want and what you don’t want.  If you are watching a lot of TV about negative things then think about what your brain things you want.

When I realised how powerful this was I made a decision not to read newspapers all the time, not to watch certain TV and to not watch many films.  This also included watching my self talk.

And you know what?

Things changed.

Then I started to fill my brain with positive things.  While I was in the car I listened to CD’s, I read more books, started to met more people who were doing the things I wanted to.  I started to fill my brian with good!

Here are some great CD’s you can get if you want to do the same.

If you are working really hard at your goals but you find that you just can’t quite seem to achieve what you want then I would suggest having a look at all the things you are putting into your brain and work out what is negative and what is positive.  Are you giving your brain the right stuff?

Matt