If you park an expensive car in a field and leave it there long enough, it will rust. Nature’s message is clear: use it or lose it.
This applies to your brain or your body. Science has recently revealed that we can grow new brains or at least create new brain cells through neurogenesis by challenging our brains to perform what might initially seem to be difficult tasks.
But what’s the point if we don’t use what we already have. Why feed our bodies and minds if we are not going to exercise them.
Most successful people are active, engaging, and optimistic. They focus on the positives of life, whereas uninteresting people are boring because they tend to focus on the negatives of their lives. Unless they take massive action to change that status or something huge happens to them or someone close to them, nothing will improve their lives.
The answer, then, is to jump out of the square by being different from others who place limitations on themselves and place a use-by date on their lives.
Start an interesting life by having a sense of adventure. If you focus on an exciting, adventurous life, you will experience one. Become curious and take some definitive action now instead of procrastinating.
To instil this, I will make it a daily practice to actively seek knowledge, think and challenge my brain, and exercise my body. Even if there isn’t much time, a short walk will keep me from feeling that I’ve failed. And I will avoid all excuses that will keep me from my activities.
