We discount free information.

People value advice more if they have paid for it, even if it is the same as advice they got or can get for free somewhere else.

Do you really need to pay for weight loss advice?

Do you really need to pay for, let’s say, “adult education”?

The answer is no.  Of course, if what you want is a support system and someone holding you accountable because you don’t have self-discipline, then that is a “value-added service” that comes with the advice.

Consider Think Daily.  It’s free.  How many of you have your teen or older kids signed up?  How many of your kids would even want to be signed up and read it every day?

I have kids, I know!  Some do, some don’t.  Why?  As Jim Rohn would say, “We don’t know why.  That’s just the way it is.”

How many of you have spent your life savings sending them to college?

Good information and advice is still good regardless of where it is from, whether it is from your grandmother, your Dad, your pastor, your professor, in a book, or in a YouTube video.

You’ll get better at recognizing good from bad quickly as you learn more and try things.  That’s called wisdom.

Who are the five people you spend the most time with?

You probably already know Jim Rohn’s line: “You become the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with.”

Question to consider: WHO are YOUR 5? 

If you mixed them up in a blender, what quality of character, values, thinking, and actions do you get?

Direction + Time = Destination

It’s always a good question to ask again – 

“If I keep going the way I am going, where will I be in 5 years?”

10 years?

20 years?

What is your answer?

Do you like the answer?

Memories are not accurate

Memories are not accurate.  They feel like facts, but they are not.

Memories are colored by the limited facts you knew or observed back then, what story you want to support today, what was documented (and repeatedly impressed) and what was not, and other factors.

What incentive do you have for your memory to support? Once you filter your memory through the incentive, the memory is altered.

People don’t doubt their memory, but you should.  

The past is a memory.  If the memory is not accurate, then neither is the past.

Question – do you want your memory to support victimhood today, or empowerment?  Because it can do either – it is your choice.

Love. medicine and miracles

This is the title of a book by Dr. Bernie Siegel.  Here are some ideas from it – 

The mind and the body are deeply connected.  Emotions like hope, purpose, and love can boost immunity and aid healing.

Self-love matters.  Patients who treat themselves with compassion tend to heal better than those filled with guilt or self-rejection.

Visualization and belief shift biology.  The brain responds to imagery and positive expectation – what you believe influences how you heal.

Love is the most powerful medicine.  When people feel deeply loved – by themselves or others – they will heal faster and more fully.

Your mindset can be part of your medicine.

Here’s a comment from me – If mindset can be part of your medicine, and I firmly believe that, the opposite is true.  Consider your mindset is part, or even all, of your disease.

What do you think?