Mental Workouts

The concept of a mental workout is much the same as a physical workout. The more effort and time you put into it, the greater the results. Like an athlete who is training for an event, they must work towards that goal every single day until the event. Exercising the brain is the same. We must continue to push ourselves to remember, to calculate and to control our thoughts and actions. This is a daily practice that gets easier with time and can have significant events. For example, those who only expect negative results are only going to receive negative results and will completely miss anything positive. But those who are expecting to succeed will even see the successes in the failure. Research has indicated that those who give themselves daily mental workouts tend to be healthier, happier and live longer. On top of that, they tend to attract others who think like they do, or at least want to, and this contributes to their mental well being. Surround yourself with positive thoughts and people and you aren't able to stay negative for too long! For me, I think a mental workout involving taking a few minutes each day to sort through things I perceive to be problems and then work through how best to handle them would help me to stay focused, not panic about upcoming deadlines, and just overall accomplish more. This would greatly help my mental well being and would help me to take control of the random thoughts that are constantly flying through my head.