Our brains are a very complex muscle and in order to gain more intelligence you need to train your brain like you any muscle that you want to build up. You’ve heard the saying “ You are what You Eat” right? We’ll this is the same thing except you could use the famous saying “junk in junk out”.

If you are at a point in your life that you would like to start excelling expect to ease your self into some lifestyle changes. These five easy tips will get you back on the right track.

1. Shut off the idiot box!

This is also known as the TV. There is a channel on TV called “Junk Food TV” this actually should be called crap for your mind. Watching hours and hours of tv is actually very draining. Have your ever sat in front of the tube watching a game or some tv marathon and felt just totally drained afterwards? That’s because you are just watching garbage.

Why do you think advertisers spend so much money on advertising on TV? Because once your mind is numb your mind can be controlled. There have been studies on this very same thing.

2.Start a workout program.

People really do underestimate the power of a good work out. Lazy people look at it as a chore while others of us look at it as a way to feel good and look good. However, getting the old blood flowing with a good run or weight lifting proves to help you focus with clarity and for longer spurts. That’s why so many gyms are open early in the morning. The people who work out in the morning use that exercise as a catapult for the rest of the day.

If you are just getting started go for a walk and work your way up into a run. You will notice a difference in think and focus within the first few days.

3.Go to bed earlier and get up earlier.

We all have done it. You stay up till 2 or 3 in the moring on a weekend night and have slept till 10 or 11. You wake up but the day is half gone already and you feel tired and lethargic, right?

You feel like laying around the house all day and can’t get motivated for anything. You got eight hours of sleep right?

Now compare that feeling to when you get to bed at 10 that night and are up at 6 in the morning. It’s the same eight hurs of sleep but you are more alive and peppy.

Our bodies were designed for getting to bed early and getting up early. That’s what helps our brain run at its optimal performance.

4.Read a book.

Reading stimulates our thought process. It also uses a great deal of imagination. Imagination leads to creativity and creativity can lead to excellent problem solving skills. If you run across a word that you don’t know the meaning of take a look up the work in a dictionary and improve your vocabulary as well.

5. Take time to focus on yourself.

We have busy lives. Going to and from, playing, working etc. At the end of the day take a few minutes after life has settled down, and start journaling. It’s an interesting process that if you stay with it will enhance your life and train your brain to think.