Fuel Your Mind

A weekly newsletter with practical, powerful, bite-sized lessons to shift your mindset, habits, and life—one idea at a time.

Intro

Less Input, Better Output

Welcome back to Fuel Your Mind — your weekly spark for personal growth and sharper thinking.

Each issue delivers:

• 10 powerful ideas to challenge your mindset
• Curated content to inspire action
• Practical tools to help you become your best self

This week’s theme is simple:

You’re not stuck because you don’t know enough.
You’re stuck because you’re drowning in:

• Too many opinions
• Too many “must-read” threads
• Too many “you should really watch this” videos

More input doesn’t mean more growth. Often, it means more noise, more confusion, and less action.

Real progress comes from better filters:

• What you allow in
• What you ignore
• What you act on

You don’t need another 10-tab research binge. You need a clear filter for what matters (and the courage to shut everything else off).

Because when you tighten your inputs, you sharpen your outputs.

Top 10 Ideas of the Week

You Don't Need More Info, You Need Better Filters

Here’s your weekly spark to think deeper, act smarter, and grow stronger:

1. Most people need an info diet, not more info.

→ 📖 Read: Your Mind Takes the Shape of What You Think​

2. Every input is either fuel or friction, so choose carefully.

→ 📖 Read: How to Concentrate Better and Eliminate Distractions​

3. Your life changes when you raise your standards for what gets your attention.

→ 📖 Read: How to Get What You Want by Raising Your Standards​

4. Unsubscribing is a growth habit, and so is saying "no" faster.

→ 📖 Read: How to Stop Caring About What Other People Think About You​

5. You don't need more "how to" content, but a short list of "this is what I'm doing now" list.

→ 🎥 Watch: 10 Simple Strategies to Master Focus and Concentration​

6. Reading 1 great book beats skimming 50 mediocre takes on social media.

→ 📖 Read: 5 Simple Yet Powerful Reasons Why You Should Be an Avid Reader​

7. Your filters are your future because you become what information you allow in your front door every day.

→ 🎥 Watch: Mindset Reset Toolkit: How to Make Your Mind Work for You​

8. Info doesn't change your behavior; it's entertainment.

→ 📖 Read: Do TV and Movies Impact Real-World Behaviors?​

9. Strong filters turn fear of missing out (FOMO) into focus.

→ 📖 Read: Missing Something? How to Kick FOMO with Conscious Decision-Making​

10. You don't rise to the level of your knowledge but fall to the level of your filters.

→ 📝 Journal: What Will I Start Ignoring This Week?

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Featured Content

How to Build Better Filters for Your Mind

Most people try to fix their problems by adding more.

• More books
• More podcasts
• More YouTube videos

But more is often the problem.

Information is like food. You can overeat even if it’s technically “good” for you.

Here’s what happens when your filters are weak:

• You say “yes” to every “must-read” resource
• Your to-watch list grows faster than your action list
• You feel productive because you are consuming … but nothing changes

You don’t have a knowledge gap. You have a filter gap.

A strong filter asks 3 simple yet powerful questions before you let something into your brain.

1. Is this aligned with my current season? If your goal right now is to get healthy, do you really need a 2-hour podcast on cryptocurrency? Probably not.
2. Will I use this in the next 30 days? If the answer is "no," it’s not a priority. It’s a distraction dressed up as “learning.”
3. What will I do with this after I consume it? If you don’t know, you are not preparing to act, but preparing to hoard.

Better filters don’t kill curiosity. They focus it.

You can still explore and follow your interests. You just do it on purpose, not by default.

Try this experiment for the next week:

• Unsubscribe from 3 emails you rarely read
• Unfollow 5 accounts that drain your focus
• Pick 1 topic you want to go deep on and choose 1 book that supports that topic

You’ll notice something strange. You won’t feel deprived.

Instead, you’ll feel:

• Lighter
• Clearer
• Sharper

Because your brain was never meant to be an overflowing email inbox, but a high-quality filter.

Less input. Better output.

👉 Read: How to Set Priorities at Work (Without Burning Out Your Team)​

Featured Resource

Book: Buy Back Your Time by Dan Martell

If this week is about better filters, this book is about the most important filter of all: What gets your time (and what doesn’t).

Buy Back Your Time is a guide to stop filling your calendar with low-value work and start designing your days around what moves you forward.

Why this book is worth reading:

• Learn how to conduct a time audit to see where your hours really go.
• It teaches you the “buyback loop” or how you can delete, delegate, and redesign tasks, so you are not stuck doing everything yourself.
• It helps you build a life where your time matches your priorities.

Most people try to get more done by cramming more in. This book flips that: do less of the wrong stuff so you have more time and energy for the right things.

If you feel like you are always busy but rarely making meaningful progress, this is your sign to step back and rebuild your schedule from the ground up.

👉 Get Buy Back Your Time on Amazon​

Resource Corner

Sharpen Your Filters. Upgrade Your Outputs.

Whether you're here to learn, grow, or sharpen your skills, here are a few tools to fuel your journey:

🎯 Take AI Skills Quiz → See if you’re using AI to think better…or just consume more.

📨 Join Free 7-Day Email Course → Reset your focus in about 10 minutes a day.

📘 Download Free Writing eBook → Turn ideas into finished work instead of half-finished drafts.

📕 Buy 251 Life-Changing Ideas Book → Ideas without the endless scroll. One idea at a time.

📺 Watch Knowledge Enthusiast on YouTube → Punchy videos to help you think clearly, act faster.

📝 Read Knowledge Enthusiast Blog → Practical articles that cut through the noise.

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Until Next Time

Less Input. Better Output.

Every tap, click, and scroll is a choice.

You are not just consuming content, but training your brain to care about what matters.

• If you feed it chaos, you’ll feel chaotic.
• If you feed it depth, you’ll think deeper.
• If you feed it clarity, you’ll act with more confidence.

You don’t have to fix everything today.

Just tighten your filters a little:

• Say "no" faster
• Close the extra web browser tab
• Choose one thing to focus on

Your future self doesn’t need you to know more, but focus on what matters (and ignore the rest).

Keep going. Keep growing.

And remember:

Until next Sunday,

Matthew

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