I hear all the time from great leaders that being aware of what content you're putting in your head is huge!
I find that if I listen to a lot of music with depressing or sad lyrics, it will often bleed into the rest of my life. It's like there's a guy in my head listening to it as reality, and that subconsciously makes me not feel like doing anything. The results come out as sitting on the couch longer or procrastinating tasks I need to get done, and the feeling of it doesn't really matter. Brendon Burchard says all the time, "Garbage in, garbage out" you will inevitably come in contact with down or depressing content throughout the day, but limiting your contact with it, I've found, will greatly improve your mood and motivations!
I really enjoy pop music; the tunes and upbeat feel about them is delightful; however, the lyrics are seldom appropriate or uplifting. I didn't want to remove the pop genre from my playlists completely, so I decided to try something new. Still listen to pop music but in different languages. Hear me out; you get all the benefits of the tunes and vibe of the songs and the good singing, without having to listen to trashy lyrics! Plus, you get the added benefit of being different and trying new things; I found that this opened a whole new genre that I previously wouldn't have even thought of!
Key Takeaways:
1) Be aware of what you put in your head; if its depressing content, that will move over your mood and motivations
2) Filter out bad music, replace it with an alternative
3) Listening to pop music in different languages gives you all the benefits of what you already enjoy consuming, without having to hear garbage lyrics.
4) Trying new genres and music styles from other countries open your pallet to genres you may have never heard of before. It also makes you different!