Inside Your Control Vs. Outside

If you want to have useful thoughts, here’s a rule of thumb Only think about things you can control. That automatically eliminates about 99% of your thoughts because there’s very little you control in life. Only focus on what you control. Things like

Desires

Actions

Words

Intentions

What’s a useless thought Anything out of your control and without a useful purpose. Do you ever think about the past That’s the perfect example of a random thought that lacks a purpose, unless you’re reflecting on a past decision or mistake you made.

In the case of reflection, you’re doing something useful. But other than that, every thought about the past serves no purpose. From that point of view, it’s useless.

Ever fantasize about the future That’s also useless. I’ve discovered two main types of useful thoughts

1. Thinking about how you can solve problems. A problem is just an unanswered question. Put your brain to use and think about how you can solve problems. There are a lot of those on this earth.

2. Understanding knowledge. That means this Try to internalize knowledge and think about how you can use that knowledge to improve your life, career, work, relationships, etc.

That’s it. You can ignore every other thought. If you’re constantly thinking without a useful purpose, it’s because you haven’t’ trained your mind yet.

You have to get out of your head. If not, you’ll go mental. Everyone will. No exception. Ask yourself “Is that worth it”.

Do you really want to waste your time, energy, and life on useless thinking, You and I both know the answer to that. Commit to stop thinking about useless things.

Start taking control of your mind. All that worrying about the past and the future is not going to help you. It never did. And it never will.