Our human minds are always thinking thoughts.
In fact, experts say the mind thinks between 60,000 – 80,000 thoughts per day. This translates to an average of 2500 – 3,300 thoughts per hour.
What we do not know for each person is how many of these thoughts are positive influences or negative influences on our lives. After all, it is a fact that the brain controls everything in our body.
Time to take out your head trash?
Any oceangoing ship or boat carries ballast. Ballast is material that is used to provide stability for example a compartment within a boat, ship, submarine, or other floating structure that holds water is called a ballast tank. Ballast is used in ships to provide moment to resist the lateral forces on the hull. Insufficiently ballasted boats tend to tip or heel excessively in high winds. Too much heel may result in the boat/ship capsizing. (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballast)
The use of this added weight to the ship is a steadying force.
Yes, it is additional weight, however, without the ballast a ship in any type of heavy weather or seas would have disastrous outcomes. A Naval architect utilizes physics and formulas to determine the exact weight and placement of ballast when they plan for a ship to be built. A common rule of thumb is to ballast a boat two thirds to the bow, one third to the stern. A pivot point will be created relative to the ratio of ballast front and rear around which the boat will turn.
This is especially important when a cargo ship is light – without a full load of cargo which is its actual purpose – to carry cargo. The opposite is true when a cargo ship is now fully loaded. Less ballast or minimal ballast is needed. Actually too much ballast will similarly create results that are less than optimal, in fact, may be disastrous.
Let’s bring this back to us.
Time to take out your head trash?
With thousands of thoughts appearing in our minds throughout each day we want these thoughts to have positive influences on our lives.
Don’t we all want this?
Similar to ballast on oceangoing ships we all need certain thoughts to keep us balanced and grounded. The negative self-talk and thoughts questioning our self-confidence, appearance, and anything causing negativity in your minds must be shut down.
Time to take out your head trash?
In order to silence and remove these negative thoughts we need to replace them with intentionally crafted positive thoughts. Some examples of these are positive affirmations, your favorite quotes, songs, poems, visuals and more. You may create these or craft them from others or memories you have or dreams you have.
Sounds like a lot or effort? Really now YOU are WORTH IT!
The recognition of this and the effort to overcome it is no less than A Game Changer! Even more you don’t have to do this alone. You can be part of a mastermind group or work with a coach one-on-one to guide you along a consistent path.
Admit it – it’s – Time to take out your head trash!
Mitch Tublin is the CEO and Founder of Wenkroy International LLC a boutique consulting company with a main focus on adding value to people. Through Speaking, Training and Coaching lives are changed. My passion is to take people to the next level in their life and in their career or business.
