How often do you think about your thinking?
I use my journal to help me but how and why does this work?
Let's take a recent journal entry of mine at random. In answer to the question, "What am I telling myself this morning?", I said (paraphrasing):
I'm annoyed and embarrassed at how difficult I'm finding it to do this simple thing
I shouldn't have to do this / It shouldn't be this hard
'They' don't care / 'They'll' think I'm an amateur / 'They' don't respect me
It will fail therefore I will fail
Of course, I'll fail because I'm not enough
Now that I've seen my stories for what they are, I have a choice to make.
I can choose to follow this line of thought for the rest of the day or I can choose to believe:
I AM ENOUGH AND I ALWAYS WILL BE.
From that place of self-belief, I can now ask myself, "who can I be today? What would he do? How does he feel about this?"
This simple shift, leads to massive change in perspective, mood, performance and output. Don't trust me. Try it.
If you're thinking, my mind doesn't work like this, you're wrong. It does, you're just not sufficiently self-aware (yet) to realise that it does.
I can help you audit your personal operating system:
How do you think about your thinking?
Is your psychology enabling high performance, or quietly capping it?
Examine the patterns, beliefs and habits shaping your results.
If your mental fitness isn’t where it needs to be, you’ll leave with clarity on how to upgrade your system, so you can operate with more focus, resilience and intent.
