Number One Investment

What is the number one investment, you as a person should make? Most of us have great potential and yet we sense that something is missing. Wouldn’t it be nice to know exactly what the number one priority for us is, and how to instill in our children the secret that leads to a healthy fulfilled life? A great proverb says, “Much wealth is in the uncultivated ground of the poor but injustice robs it of its riches.” Do you think that ignorance is injustice? I do! I have seen how that a lack of information keeps people from being able to succeed and solve problems.

It is my opinion the number one investment should be… OUR MIND! In this day and age there is a battle for our mind.

If you have an enemy that you don’t believe in and you don’t defend yourself from, you become an easy target. Your enemy will have no trouble overtaking you, and this is the case with our mind. We have been overtaken and we are seduced in multiple directions. We do not realize the importance of developing habits and disciplines that protect our mind. Our environment should be a safe environment that protects us from the onslaught of senseless mind candy that leaves our brain undernourished. We must invest in our mind and learn to control and avail our self of the tools necessary to accomplish what we desire to do.

If your mind is not healthy then you will not have an environment that nurtures creative thought, and you will not go forward. You will find yourself stuck and in a rut, and this will contaminate the mind, causing the mind to become full of bitter discontent, rerunning the memories of the past. The mind needs to press forward toward a revelation of the future.

If your mind is not disciplined you will rebel against discipline!

The word “discipline” means training to act in accordance with rules, and activity, exercise, or a regimen that develops or improves a skill.

Rebellion is resistance to or defiance of any authority, control, and is at odds with the thought of discipline.

The lack of mental discipline gives the keys of our future to an enemy whose sole purpose is to hold us at bay, and stop us from fulfilling our God given purpose. It is so important to break those habits of wasting time that stop us from developing or improving skills. Time passes just the same, so in order to break bad habits we must choose to use our time wisely.

Children will almost always rebel against being trained to act in accordance with rules and activity, exercise, or a regimen that develops or improves a skill. But it is our responsibility to train them up in the way that they should go. Feel free to turn off those things that suck the brains right out through the eyeballs, such as T.V., video games, etc., and make it important to do something creative and full of surprise. It is important for us and our children to know that learning is a priority.

Did you know that the by-product of revelation is joy? When you learn something that is fresh and new and truly causes you to be enlightened, it causes your heart to be full of joy and gives you a sence of personal growth.

I can’t say enough about the benefits of making the mind our number one investment, because if our mind is broken, then so is everything else. But a healthy mental discipline, and perspective, becomes a lifestyle that translates into success for the body, soul, and spirit.

I hope that this is helpful!