3 TIPS on MASTERING YOUR MIND! - You are your thoughts! - 015
Peter Saddington's video emphasizes the profound impact of focused thought on shaping one's reality, drawing on quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson and Marcus Aurelius. He argues that consistent, focused thinking, coupled with action, is essential for achieving goals. Saddington suggests that a major impediment to achievement, particularly among younger generations, is pervasive distraction from technology and other stimuli. The video encourages viewers to revisit childhood dreams and aspirations, which often get sidelined by pragmatic concerns. Saddington advocates for daily self-programming and mastering one's mind to overcome internal resistance and negative self-talk. He specifically advises against immediately checking phones upon waking, as this introduces irrelevant and distracting information that can derail one's focus and intentions for the day.
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Master your mind. Focus your mind on the right things. This is one of the reasons why and this is my opinion and I don't know anything But this is my opinion. I think one of the reasons why millennials and the younger generation is so frustrated It's so frustrated with not being able to achieve or not having purpose or not having a reason to exist or not having good whatever It's because they're so distracted I Built many startups most of them the fail so Bitcoin is exactly the place that I like to be we're gonna end it right there Hey man is what he thinks about all day Hey man is what he thinks about all day That's Ralph Waldo Emerson Here's another great quote. It's from the late Roman Emperor Marcus Marcus Aurelius He said our life is what our thoughts make it Our life
is what our thoughts make it Now this is what I want to talk with you guys about today What I want to talk with you guys about today is a very simple idea of What you think about is What you become What you think about all day is What you will become let me repeat those quotes again Ralph Waldo Emerson said a man is what he thinks about all day a Man is what he thinks about all day now obviously there's some Clear implications here. You can't just be sitting here all day and thinking about becoming rich or becoming successful or becoming whatever The idea however is that action stems from the mind Meaning action comes out of what you're thinking about if you think about becoming rich all day You think about becoming wealthy all day the idea here is is that your thoughts
should compel you Your thoughts should move you to action Remember what Marcus Aurelius said the late Emperor he said our life is what our thoughts make it our life is what our thoughts make it Meaning whatever we think We can actually create that life this is a powerful powerful idea And I wanted to kind of mash these two quotes together remember Ralph Waldo Emerson said is a man is what he thinks about all day Which means you can become anything you can be anything that you believe in your heart that you can be now Some of you guys say push push that's not possible and Peter come on. I ain't gonna be Michael Jordan. Okay, okay within The spectrum of reality. Yeah, there's a lot of generally physical genetic limitations That could preclude you from being successful in basketball or a whole slew of other
sports But don't try to look for the outliers here. I think it's easy to try to argue against these ideas Because that's what the mind does and that's what we're talking about it A man is what he thinks about all day Think about what you want to be think about what you want to become this should don't miss this spur you Insight you to action if you want to be a certain type of man if you want to be a certain type of person You want to be a certain type of woman you must take action towards that Marcus Aurelius says our life is what our thoughts make it. It's so true Your entire life begins with your thoughts. That's how you see you see the world you think about the world You have perceptions ideas worldviews and they infect the way that you think
want to be a certain type of man if you want to be a certain type of person You want to be a certain type of woman you must take action towards that Marcus Aurelius says our life is what our thoughts make it. It's so true Your entire life begins with your thoughts. That's how you see you see the world you think about the world You have perceptions ideas worldviews and they infect the way that you think and behave For good or for bad I've talked about this many times and I've showed this guys I'm talked about about this no point now you see it all the time my garage My garage I dreamed up three years before I even built it I had created this Palace this garage palace this perfect working environment for myself years in advance of me actually making it What you
think about is what you become Remember you have to take action here What did you dream about as a child? What did you dream about as a child? What did you day dream about as a child? What were the wishes you had? What were the grand ideas that you conjured up? What were the lands and the mystical places that you visited in your mind? Who were the individuals real or fake that met you in these amazing conjured up worlds of fantasy? You used to daydream You used to dream you used to have goals what happened. It's very simple life happened You had to begin thinking about the more Pregmatic things in life getting a job having a stable salary earning enough income so you could pay off that mortgage pay off That house pay off that ring for that woman that you love Right Right
you had to begin thinking about other things and this is okay. This is natural however I Think the travesty is and where the opportunity lies is that it's time to return back To those dreams to those goals Master your mind focus your mind on the right things this One of the reasons why and this is my opinion and I don't know anything But this is my opinion I think one of the reasons why millennials and the younger generation is so frustrated It's so frustrated with not being able to achieve or not having purpose or not having a reason to exist or not having good whatever It's because they're so distracted by mobile apps mobile games the internet's dating app It's it's just they're so distract the youth of the nation are so distracted Their minds are thinking about 9,000 different things within the course of
a day And I'll tell you and you don't need to be a scientist or psychologist or anything to anybody to know this Is that if you're thinking about 9,000 different things in the course of a day? There is no way that you will be successful Because if you cannot master your mind then you can't master your actions You can't master your actions and behaviors and you can certainly in many cases can't master your emotions Therefore it's going to be pretty hard for you and I To master our lives I talk about self-programming I talk about mastering your mind so much and I repeat it so much and I don't think I can ever not repeat it enough It needs to be repeated daily because it's a daily resistance that we fight the daily resistance that we fight is the Inside mind telling you you can't
certainly in many cases can't master your emotions Therefore it's going to be pretty hard for you and I To master our lives I talk about self-programming I talk about mastering your mind so much and I repeat it so much and I don't think I can ever not repeat it enough It needs to be repeated daily because it's a daily resistance that we fight the daily resistance that we fight is the Inside mind telling you you can't do it. You shouldn't do it. You won't do it pussy You won't do it. Yeah, I'm gonna get it up You're not gonna pick up that pen. You're gonna. You're not gonna type that thing out. You're not going to you're not gonna do it Because the resistance is too strong Ralph Waldo Emerson said a man is what he thinks about all day What are you thinking about
all day? Go throughout the course of your day today Whenever you listen to this What did you think about when you woke up? You know, we don't want the worst things to do in the morning is to check your phone because you immediately start thinking about things that don't matter Think about it. You immediately wake up you turn over you roll over to your phone and you start getting an injection of consumption consumption goods Instagram Facebook tweeters text messages likes comments dislike like You're your entire beginning of your world. You just woke up from the dream You just exited the matrix guys you woke up this morning and the first thing that you're gonna put into your mind is Shit that doesn't matter That should probably be one of the first things that we might consider Changing in the morning is that when we wake
up in the morning the first thing that we do is not inject our brains with random nonsense and bullshit But we wake up first thing in the morning and we turn over to our notebook We immediately go insular What did I dream about? What am I thinking about now? What's on my plate? What's on my heart? What is important to me right now as I wake up? These are thoughts that are I think far more important to us than the outside world because we need to wake ourselves up We need to get ourselves in motion. We need to get ourselves in gear. It is time to act. It's time to do time is a Tick-in time is awayston for some of you Wake up What are you thinking about in the morning? What do you think about as you're driving to work? What are you
thinking about while you're at work? What do you think about over lunchtime lunch break afternoon break number one after No break number two finishing up work driving home What are you thinking about all day think about all the things that you think about? Especially if you're in a position of let's just say financial slavery in which you have to work to live If you were in this particular position you think about a lot of things that are of Well, you think about a lot of things that other people are worried about Marcus Aurelius Aurelius said our life is what our thoughts make it Let's sit on that our life is what our thoughts Make it if you want to turn the words around we could make it like this We will make Whatever we will make in our lives whatever we think about What you
particular position you think about a lot of things that are of Well, you think about a lot of things that other people are worried about Marcus Aurelius Aurelius said our life is what our thoughts make it Let's sit on that our life is what our thoughts Make it if you want to turn the words around we could make it like this We will make Whatever we will make in our lives whatever we think about What you want to make a mess of your life think about messy things you'll make it you want to think about joy in life Think about joy in life. You'll have joy in life You want to think about wealth? Well think about wealth you ain't getting wealth if you just think about it because yeah, it's got to work for it Joy happiness sadness these things I can conjure up
in my soul These are things that I can conjure up in my emotions. These are things that I can conjure up in my brain But you know what I can't conjure up I can't conjure up money and So if you want to think about being successful if you want to think about getting that goal achieving that Thing that's in your heart. Maybe it's been so dormant from the years of Elementary school the last time you actually day dreamed and actually dreamed about a life that you really wanted Maybe it's time to open up the door open up the soul Let out the cobwebs and let yourself dream again Our life is one of our thoughts make it Let's master the mind. Let's focus the mind so that we can focus on things that matter to us Goals that matter to us not bullshit not Instagram
not tweeders not Facebook not Snapchat not TikTok Knock I could go on and on not linked in not go fight guys. It's so easy to be distracted with nonsense and bullshit You want to know what I think about all day? Very simple. I wrote it down number one. I think about all day is growth growth growth Positivity positivity positivity. How can I constantly be growing and how can I be constantly grateful and Positive for the life that I have the opportunities I have and the people that I'm around Number two, I'm always thinking about learning. God man. I got this new project going on guys I'm loving learning and guess what frankly. I have nothing better to do with my time than to learn great stuff and Number three, I'm constantly thinking about delivering Daily delivering daily or as close to daily as I can
Right because I believe that discipline of daily shipping Creates a discipline that will guarantee wealth. Let me say that again a daily discipline of shipping Creates a discipline of generating wealth Because I don't take any days off and if you want to generate wealth Well, you don't have to go too far Most people when they want to generate massive amounts of wealth and want to be successful They don't take days off. Daily delivery is my way and I couldn't doesn't have to be your way But daily delivery is my way of ensuring that I will never lose the discipline to make exceptional amounts of money through my own hard work A couple of things for you guys to think about to think about in today's message What you think about all day is what you will become number one remove those dag on distractions Remove
They don't take days off. Daily delivery is my way and I couldn't doesn't have to be your way But daily delivery is my way of ensuring that I will never lose the discipline to make exceptional amounts of money through my own hard work A couple of things for you guys to think about to think about in today's message What you think about all day is what you will become number one remove those dag on distractions Remove those dag on distractions from your life Remove them right a list down be conscious be conscientious of what's going on It's so easy to become passive a passive consumer welcome to the TV welcome to television programming mockingbird media Right, that's the whole idea to move ourselves into a position where we're just consuming with our mouths open open half open Our you know our nose drooling and our
eyes bleeding like that's what the world wants us to do is just consume and be a slave Remove those distractions number two read books Don't read don't read mag read books on the human experience Because they'll take you on a trip Of someone who who was willing to write down what they did in life You know I tell you the more books that you read on the human experience The more people that you will encounter who did exceptional things with their lives And I'm hoping it'll motivate you to begin writing that story in your own life Number three memorize shit Memorize it it requires you to focus right stuff down. It requires you to focus That's the whole idea master your mind program yourself to success program yourself to focus program yourself to daily ship Program yourself to continue to remember the goal the dream
that you wanted to achieve That's What we need to fight every day is the resistance of the mind. It's the mind It's we talked about this before the battlefield of the mind I'm right there with you guys. I'm right there with you guys. I fight that resistance that battlefield of the mind every day Remember Ralph Waldo Emerson said a man is what he thinks about all day Marcus Aurelia said our life is what our thoughts Make it What are you thinking about today? And what distractions do you need to remove What books on the human experience should you read and what should you begin to memorize so that you can begin to flex That muscle of mastering your own mind You This is Peter Sattington the beat If you like this episode feel free to share subscribe and like and if you're really savvy share
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This video is part of a library of 780+ episodes published by Peter Saddington on staas.fund. Peter is a serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist (StaaS Fund, RegD 506B), and AI practitioner who has trained 17,000+ professionals in agile and AI methodologies. He bought Bitcoin at $2.52 in 2011, built 4 autonomous AI agents (the Council of Dogelord), and operates 10+ websites with zero employees. His AI Workshop has been attended by Fortune 500 teams, and his newsletter "The Agile VC" reaches thousands of subscribers weekly. Peter holds 3 Master's degrees (Divinity, Computer Science, Computational Operations Research) from institutions including Georgia Tech.