Day 5: Mental Recalibration — Garbage In, Garbage Out

Welcome to Day 5. Today, we’re getting under the hood. We’re dealing with the mother of all principles: As a man thinketh, so is he.

You guessed it. We’re recalibrating the mental domain.

I have one question for you. After you filled out the first prompt in your Mind Hacking Journal… what did you see?

What did you notice about your thought patterns?

Were they the actionable commands of a CEO building an empire? Or were they just… bugs? Glitches in the system?

Did your thoughts actually represent the powerful, capable person you are? Or were you lying to yourself, only to discover that your core processor is infected with viruses of self-doubt, fear, and limitation?

Be honest. How are your thoughts? Even the silent ones. The intrusive ones that whisper when you’re trying to sleep. Are they poisonous? Do they sabotage you, or do they work for you?

What about your active thinking? Does it build you up or tear you down?

If you found a sick system within you, fear not. Today, we treat it.

Here’s the raw truth about your mind: it operates on a brutal, simple code. Garbage In, Garbage Out.

It’s the most powerful processor you’ll ever own, and it will faithfully execute whatever commands you feed it. And supporting this is the ancient text: “The eyes are the windows to the soul.”

Your senses are the input, all of them: what you see, what you hear, what you feel, and what you smell. So what are you letting in? What are your windows letting in? Are you allowing horrid, foul smells and a dark ambiance to permeate your mind? Or are you fiercely curating the input to only allow in light, nice aromas, and powerful scents?

How do you do this? You already have the answer.

You have to become a ruthless editor of your own life. Filter what your senses consume. Watch and read only things you would want to embody. Be insanely intentional about the content you consume. With time, your brain will have no choice but to craft and output those same high-frequency thoughts automatically. It’s just how the machine works.

And there’s one more thing. Can you please learn the art of having a clear brain?

Mental chaos and “muchness” are not the flex everyone thinks it is. Have you ever seen a computer attempt to execute a hundred commands simultaneously? It crashes. It freezes.

Our brains are the same. The things we have to deal with are many, but they must be organized. Handled in batches. Executed one command at a time.

Mental chaos only leads to exhaustion. Exhaustion leads to burnout. Burnout leads to numbing—through alcohol, pleasure habits, instant gratification, and endless doomscrolling. You go deep down the rabbit hole and become mentally worse.

Then, aha, depression creeps in. And the next thing you know, you’re thinking of an untimely exit.

Please. I need you to hear this.

Organize your brain. Declutter it. Clear it. Give it time to rest.

Your mind is your most sacred weapon. It’s time to clean, sharpen, and aim it in the right direction.