3 Powerful Ways To Improve The Quality of Your Thoughts

About this video

Martell argues the quality of your thoughts directly determines the quality of your life, using a fishbowl analogy he credits to his buddy Brad: the mind holds whatever you pour in, and once negativity, fear and scarcity pollute clear water it takes even more positive input to clear it again. He offers three practices. First, remove external forces by auditing information consumption — news, tabloids, gossip magazines and podcasts — following his buddy Adam’s line that it is easier to avoid the dragon than to slay it, rather than relying on willpower. Second, visualise the future you want daily, because the mind thinks in pictures and the reticular activating system filters sensory information for what you have told it matters, illustrated by suddenly seeing red Hondas everywhere after deciding to buy one; vision boards, journaling or goal cards work if practised consistently. Third, practise gratitude, which he says cannot coexist with anger, sadness or frustration and can reset focus even for problems like a key employee quitting or a bank pulling a credit line. He cites using the Five Minute Journal for five or six years and says habits, not fleeting motivation, sustain the shift.

Key takeaways

• Audit and cut negative inputs like news, tabloids and gossip — avoid the dragon rather than trying to slay it with willpower
• The mind is like a fishbowl: it holds whatever you feed it, and polluted thinking takes disproportionate positive input to clear
• Visualise your desired future daily to program your reticular activating system to notice relevant opportunities
• Use any visualisation tool — vision board, journaling or goal cards — the consistency of the practice matters more than the tool
• Use gratitude, including gratitude for the quality of your problems, to reset focus when you drift into a bad headspace

Episode details: published April 19, 2021 · 11:37 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Dan Martell’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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