Take a moment to assess how your day tends to flow. Do you usually feel like a leaf blowing in the wind, or do you feel centered and adequately equipped to handle both known and unforeseen variables?
Do you think there’s a connection between how you start your day and how you end up moving through your day? How can you set yourself up in the morning to invite a sense of empowerment and deliberate creation later on? You might have heard things like:
• Don’t watch the news nor check email first thing.
• Have a nutritional breakfast and sit down as you eat it.
• Meditate, if even for 1 minute.
• Read a devotional.
I invite you to experiment with doing something else:
1. Journal the crazy.
2. Journal the truth.
3. Journal the creation.
Journaling often leaves me feeling cleansed and readily able to glide through my day with a sense of purpose and power.
Journal the crazy. Ever find that you wake up sometimes and the mind is already yacking before you’ve completely wiped the sleep from your eyes? Rx: Grab your journal (or piece of paper) conveniently left at your bedside. Set a timer for 1-10 minutes (depending how much time you have) then start writing what the yack-master is saying.
Don’t edit. Just write. You’ll probably uncover fears, doubts and worries. So many of us walk into our day with the crazy running the show in the background. Why not catch the crazy and bring it to the light of day for disintegration, or at least acknowledgement for rebuttal?
Journal the truth. If you’re spiritually-inclined, I invite you to start this part of the journaling by asking, “What does my Higher Self, or CoCo (Cosmic Consciousness) think about ______?” or “What does _____ look like through the eyes of Higher Self or CoCo?” The ____ can be a particular crazy item or any combo of crazy.
This part of the journaling dispels the nonsense and invites tranquility and stillness into your mind. This is the Voice of Truth, that aspect of you or the world that is looking out for your best interests and has your back always.
If talk of spiritual matters makes you queasy, relax. This question could be “What would I like to believe about ____?” or “What is a better way to look at ____?” or “What does that part of me that always looks out for my best interest think of ___?”
Set that timer for at least 1 minute longer than you set for the crazy. The point is you want to reflect more on truth than on crazy. Let the truth fill your mind.
Journal the creation. Where would you like to devote your energy today? What would you like to create? This doesn’t have to be all about today. What people, places and experiences would you like to bring into your life in the next 30 days, 6 months, 1 year, 5 years? The possibilities are endless.
Bonus. Plan something that’s really important to you into some aspect of your day. Try the Planner smartphone app by Intersog. It’s incredibly empowering. Even if you have commitments and responsibilities galore, you get to ultimately decide that you can set aside 20 minutes to research new work, reach out to new colleagues, investigate Master's degree programs, plan a vacation, get a quick shoulder massage.
Now you may get out of bed. Oh yea, you’re doing this journal process while you’re still in bed. The point of all this? You get to dictate how you move through your day by planting a solid uplifting and deliberate foundation before you interact with anyone or anything. Try it and tell me how it goes!
Check out my relevant episode Mindshifting a Same S#@! Different Day Experience.
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