So when i was about 9-14, my favourite activity in the entire world was... VIDEO GAMES!!!
I loved every second of online gaming; from Modern Warfare titles, to Halo, to Fifa, I couldn't get enough. I even created a gaming YouTube channel (which, to be fair, is still one of the best things ive done to date, but thats for another time). I spent hours after school, from 5-9 teaming up with my friends and BOSSING the online world. We would level up and up and up, achieve new guns and win awards, we made clans and fought others, made up little mini-games in private servers, generally had a blast.
However, something happened when i turned about 15 which tends to happen to most men at this age, WE WANT ATTENTION FROM THE FEMININE!
Now its important to understand "where i was" in my life at this point. Id had a fairly difficult first year of secondary school, but a couple of great friends. I wasn't uncool (whatever that means...) but certainly wasn't popular. I was somewhere in the middle. Now the nature of my being is, i kinda wanna progress myself to be the best version of myself i can be. So i made a decision that i need to focus more on improving my REAL LIFE reputation up and become "cool" because i thought thats all i needed to "sort my life out".
Over the next few years i did this, and pretty much succeeded. I was much more attractive towards women, and wow my confidence sky-rocked. I was getting with women here there and everywhere and i loved it, until i felt a longing for a more involved relationship, so i started a relationship, which is where i am today.
Now, the reason i shared this experience with you is because when i was constantly consuming my mind with JUNK, my life was... JUNK. It was only when i decided to take the time, courage and discipline necessary to change my MIND and LIFE that things started to change. Now in reality, i only started truely advancing myself at a rapid rate in the last few months, but that was the starting point. EVERYONE NEEDS A STARTING POINT, WHEN WILL YOURS BE? Because if you feel like you have a longing in your heart that cant be put out, you can either start the long, scary, hazardous but EMPOWERING, STRENGTHENING, HEART-LEAD path to success TODAY, or one week, year or decade down the line, it doesn't get any easier or incredible, its up to you...
So many social media sites are paracites infecting your brain with mindless BS thats detracting from you enjoying the best version you can possibly be, they're designed to do that. But you have the ability to choose what platforms you spend you VERY PRECIOUS TIME on. Time is money, time is love, time is precious, don't spend it watching people fighting on WorldStar, or catching up on the latest beef two celebrities have half a world away, its all fake anyway. Focus on you, your life, your meditation, your Yoga, your training, your exercise, your goals, your mind, your health, your body, your soul, its all that you have, its all that you'llever have to live with.
Hope i haven't scared you away, maybe someones agreed or even been inspired to do some good tomorrow (its 20:15 in the UK) or today.
Thanks for reading, i am truly grateful.
James.
P.S. Listening to some binaural beats and beta waves for focus and relaxation, seems to have worked fairly well. I definitely calm now haha.
References: Image 1 - Google Images.