Junk Mail

Everyday in our e-mail accounts we get spam, in our mailboxes at our homes we get more junk mail and it is amazing to see how we filter it right into the garbage. Same with our e-mail, we send it right to the trash, well at least I do, do you look at it?

In life what is your junk filter? Do you have one, garbage in and garbage out. What we put into our bodies is what we are, so if we are eating junk all the time we will not be the healthiest of people. Same with if we are listing to junk on the TV/Radio we fill our brains with garbage, garbage in and garbage out. Do you see where I am going with this? Same thing goes with the junk advice we receive from friends or so called friends, what we chose to listen to we tend to act upon. Have you ever noticed it is easy to spin something into something really terrible and the more we talk about it the worse it gets? Soon our thoughts are focused on how terrible things are, instead of the action it takes to get out of that. Garbage in, garbage out.

Since I am a man, I have noticed that we can spin things to make it look so good. If you are a man reading this, I am guessing you know what I am talking about. If you are a woman, I am sure you have heard that line over and over again. When things are not good at home, it is quick to receive all the junk mail from outside the situation, instead of filtering it, if we listen to it, we tend to get lost in all the junk and soon garbage is coming out. Have you found that our junk mail filters need to be turned on at all times, we have to watch who we listen to and we need that sound advice. We not only need the filter on the incoming items, but also a filter for the out going items. I was challenged by one of my teachers, he said "Geoff, I want you to try something, before talking wait 5 to 10 seconds, think through what you are going to say and then talk." I laughed at him, because I thought it would make me look stupid, but the more I do that the more I think about my words, I think about how to say them and I think through the impact they will have on others. Now, I will be the first to admit, I am not a pro at that and sometimes my words get ahead of my thoughts and then I put my foot so far down my throat, I choke...

I challenge anyone reading this today, it is time to create a mental junk filter. It is time to stop excepting the spams of life, the things that offer happiness and everything else in place of the struggles of life. Every relationship will have struggles, it will have hard times. But we have to be careful who we listen to, because those hard times can get even harder. It is time we create filters for ourselves and see the junk for what it is, before it takes us down paths that we can't get away from.

It is high time we set a standard for ourselves to live by. Stop being a leaf in the wind go from this feeling to the next and start becoming a Oak and sinking your roots in deep. When the storms come, then instead of being tossed around, you will be grounded. Turn the junk filters on, sink your roots in and filter out all the junk and only allow good and solid messages to come in.