Are you having squirrely thoughts? Are you not knowing what's going on inside
your head? Watch closely. Watch this video so you can learn how to
manage those unnecessary thoughts.
Hey, are you a squirrel chaser in your head? Do your thoughts like seriously
just go all over the place? Okay, if they do, you're really normal,
right? But what do you do? How do you manage these thoughts that literally
just go all over the place? in some days it just feels like they're out of
control, don't they? Well, there's a way that you can really get better at
managing those thoughts. So that you're driving towards a particular destination.
So, hey, pay attention here and you're going to get some great suggestions of
exactly what to do. Alright. So, I drew a picture of you. No, this does not mean
you have a big head. I just drew a picture here so I can, you know, you have
a bigger space to draw what's happening inside of your head. Now, the analogy here
though before I get into the drawing is this: You're in a car, you're the driver,
you start driving down the road. You're going 60 miles an hour driving down the
road, right? 60 miles an hour driving down the road. What if all of a sudden,
you let go of the steering wheel and you're not going to touch the steering
wheel anymore. What could happen? You got passengers in the backseat, you got other
people driving on the road, you know what's going to happen.
You either going to drive off the road and wreck or you're going to run into somebody.
You're going to be reckless. If you don't manage the thoughts in your mind, it's
like you let go of the steering wheel and your thoughts are going swerving all
the place driving all over the road and you literally are going to be reckless
enough that somebody is going to get hurt. I I know, sounds like, "No, it's okay. I can
just have random thoughts. They just go wherever." You can but something's going to
break, something's gonna crash, something... You're going to drive off the road which
means you're off your path. You're off, you're not heading towards a destination.
You're going to cause problems. Now, if you're married, and you're not driving
your thoughts and you're just letting the hands be out wheel. You're driving
your spouse nuts. If you're an employee and you're working for a company,
business and you don't have your hands on the where your minds going, you're
going to drive your boss nuts. You could get fired.
Reckless thinkers get fired. So, we talked about marriage, we talked about having a
job. Oh, wait a minute. What if you own your own business and you're the one
running the company. And you're not driving your thoughts and you're just
letting the steering wheel go over at once. Yeah, that's going to cost you. You're
going to cause casualties, people are going to quit, your sales are going to go down. You're
going to struggle. You're going to make a mess of things. So, the moral of the story is,
get your hands back on the steering wheel and drive your thoughts. If you
don't have something to focus on with your thoughts, if you don't have
something you're focusing on every day, it's like your hands are on the wheel.
Focus means hands are on the wheel and you literally are turning your thoughts
in a particular direction. That means you got to have something out there.
Something you're going to, something you're striving for and that you're
thinking about it each day. "But Kirk what do I do if I'm thinking of that but my
thoughts go over here?" You turn your thoughts back to what it is you want to
create in your life. Now, doesn't this sound like, I know what you're going to
think. Doesn't this sound like I'm about ready to say, "Choose a goal." You could or
we could call it choose a destination. Now, if goal makes you all trigger it and
like, "I don't want to set goals. I'm done with goals." Then choose the destination.
So, the destination is gonna be this D. And you're going to steer your thoughts
to go towards that destination. Now, sure enough, I know exactly what's going to
happen inside your head is that as you start to head this way. Your thoughts are
going to get all squirrely on you. And go in random places. That's why you have to
involve your language. And sometimes you have to talk out loud to govern your
mind. Hey, you really... All the components to
manage your mind are right here. If you can't manage the thoughts then you need
to talk yourself into being focused. When your thoughts get all scattered, you're
allowing it to happen. And with all the social media we can get on our phones
and on computers and our TVs today, we can get entertained by all kinds of
stuff. And now the program on the electronic device is steering our
thoughts. That's why we're losing control of our thoughts is because we have our
phone controlling our thoughts, the TV controlling our thoughts, the computer
controlling your thoughts, movies controlling our thoughts. And it just...
They drive for us. And then when we're not on the computer, on the phone,
watching a movie, then we forget that we're the one actually driving. So, when
your thoughts go astray and they start going squirrelly on you, you literally
can self talk yourself back into focus. Because talking engages the mind and it
engages the direction of your thinking. But what is the destination? What is it
what is it? You want to build? What is it you want to be better at? What is the new
thing, the better thing you like to experience in your life? Now, I got to say
this. I've got 3 boys. I'm the father of 3 boys. And one of my boys... Oh, my
goodness. He is seriously relentless on how focused he is. Oh, my gosh. I've never
met somebody so determined about their destination. When he gets locked in or
fixated on something, it's what he talks about all the time,
he's trying to problem-solve towards that destination all the time, he is
locked in. And I know he's locked in because we're having lunch together and
all he talks about is the destination he wants to go to. We're driving on a family
trip and he talks about the whole time. I talked to him in the morning, that's what
he's talking about. I talked him in the evening, is what he's talking about. He's
literally fixated on this destination. Now, you know what's wild about him? Every
single thing he has picked as a destination, he
literally has rained his mind in to focus on it. And he accomplishes it. I
thought I was like the best goal setter in the family like because I set goals
and I'd get goals. But this kid is off the chart. And the part that just
fascinates me is how much he uses language to gear his mind towards what
he wants. And every time he runs into an obstacle, he talks about it. You know, "I
hit this obstacle dad and it's not working. But you know what? I'm going to get
it. This is what I want, this is how I want it." And he talks himself through
those unnecessary thoughts. The kid is just a genius. I mean, he's just brilliant.
He's just brilliant. Now, schoolwork? Eeh... He could care less
about schoolwork. He does good, he does the work but it's like, ah. He would
rather pick something and strive to get it. He... For the whole family, the whole
family looks at him and we're just in awe. But something I've learned from him
is how he uses language and how he talks about his destination. The kid is focused.
Really, super focused. So to manage your unnecessary thoughts, you need a
destination and you need to talk about that destination. Without having a
destination, you do not have your hands on the steering wheel.
It's what you're missing. You need to pick where you're going. And then all day
as much as possible ,you are in conversation with self about creating
that. Now could you have more than one thing? Sure. You have three, four or five
different things that you want as a destination. But this whole program in
which I'm talking about right now for you, just give you these steps what you
can do right now. You need a destination. Stop having your phone and your computer
and the TV decide where your mind goes. You get involved and you decide where
your mind is going to go. And when it wanders, you start
talking. And you tell it where to go. And you tell it literally where to focus and
get you to. You have been designed to build and create your life. But if you
don't manage your thoughts, you're not going to get there.
Your thoughts run your whole entire life. It controls your behavior, it controls
your decisions, it controls your efforts and if you can't point your mind in a
direction, you're not going to get to that direction.
So today, pick your destination and steer your thoughts in that direction. Hey, good
job. Did you like it? Does it make sense? Well hey, give me some great comments
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