Feed your Mind by Ziglar

Answer,Please! Did you eat anything last month? what about last week? Yesterday? Today? Chances are you are quite puzzled at these questions, of course you ate last month, last week, yesterday and today. Do you plan to eat tomorrow? If you do ,does that mean what you ate today was no good?Absolutely not.It simply means what you ate today is for today.

The average person not only eats everyday but generally speaking, he eats his meals on schedule. I have observed if a person gets busy and misses a meal ,he generally tells anyone who will listen, ”You know what?” I was so busy yesterday I didn’t have time to eat lunch. Then he repeats it to make certain his listener got the message. To him ,it’s a big deal to miss a meal and he wants others to be aware of his ‘sacrifice” Suppose the same individual was asked about his mental appetites?” when is the last time you deliberately, on a pre-determined schedule, fed your own mind?” what do you think his answer would be? for that matter what is your answer? your answer is important because you have mental appetite just as you have physical appetites.

From the neck down, very few people are worth more than $100 a week. so what do we do? we feed our stomachs, the $100 part below our necks, everyday. How often do we feed our minds, the part that has no limit to its value, earning and happiness potential? Most of us feed it accidentally and occasionally, if its convenient or we don’t have anything else to do. The excuse we often give is our lack of time. This is ridiculous.If you have “time” to feed the $100 part  below of you everyday ,doesn’t it make sense you should take time to feed the part which has no ceiling to its potential?