Sure, the glass can be half full but what is it filled with?
Darren Hardy, Publisher of SUCCESS magazine had posted an article regarding Wolf Blitzer and how he is hurting America. I had no choice but to pull this following segment from his post. Feel free to visit the full article here.
Your mind is like an empty glass. It will hold anything you put into it. You put in sensational news, salacious headlines and talk show rants and you are pouring dirty water into your glass. If you’ve got dark, dismal, worrisome water in your glass, everything you create will be filtered through that muddy mess, because that’s what you’ll be thinking about. Garbage in, garbage out.
You can flush your dirty glass with clean, clear, pure water. What is clear water? Positive, inspirational and supportive input and ideas. Stories of aspiration, people who, despite challenges, are overcoming obstacles and achieving great things. Strategies of success, prosperity, health, love and joy. Ideas to create more abundance, to grow, expand and become more. But it’s a constant battle as we are surrounded by those who want to spew dirty water into our glass constantly.
With that I would like to bring up the solution to the problem by introducing the concept of fasting. while fasting means to abstain from eating, it is better defined as the action of abstaining from [insert anything] for a period of time. In the following personal story, fasting holds true to both drinking and eating. Toward the end of the post, you will be acquainted with mental and social fasting.
A Glass Of Dirty Water
A while ago I was feeling a bit sick. I told my friend that I wasn’t going to eat or drink anything. She asked, “How are you supposed to feel better if you don’t eat anything?” I described how my stomach was like a glass of dirty water. If a glass is already half-way filled with dirty water and you put clean water in it. What do you have?
A glass full of dirty water. Now, you can add as much pure water to the glass as you want and it will overflow but still remain dirty. In my case, I was going to let my stomach get rid of and deteriorate all the stuff that was causing me to feel sick before I would fill it with more food and nourishment.
I used the analogy with my stomach sickness as a vehicle for the glass of water. I rather like Darren Hardy’s direction towards your mind being the glass that is filled with water. I have always loved the idea of a glass half full, it’s the worldwide mark of an optimist. Mistakenly though, I see a countless number of people trying to better themselves but only having more problems. While they have good intentions, they are fighting a losing battle. No matter how much pure, clean and fresh water you put in your glass or how much colorful positive assurance you pour into your mind, you are just adding more to what is already tarnished.
This means that before you can start living a life full of positivity, of a determined attitude and excellence, to truly have a “glass half full” life, you must first empty your glass.
Stay Positive & Start By Destroying Bad Habits
Garth E. Beyer
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