Deep down you know it’s OK to...
Say “no”
Speak up
Tell the truth
Believe differently
Change your mind
Prioritize your needs
Learn from your mistakes
Embrace your imperfections
Forgive and seek forgiveness
Begin again, stronger than before
Yet you often seek the exact opposite when life gets stressful and you’re under pressure.
You do the wrong things even when you know better.
The mind is indeed your battleground!
Because it has so many little weaknesses. It becomes forgetful and insensible when it’s stressed. And the only way to conquer these weaknesses is to practice conquering them—to practice thinking better.
What you need to remember is that the mind operates like a muscle, and just like every muscle in the human body, it needs to be exercised to gain and maintain strength. It needs to be trained daily to grow and develop gradually over time. If you haven’t pushed the mind in lots of little, positive ways over the course of time, of course it’ll crumble on the inevitable days that get overwhelmingly stressful.
The most significant hidden benefit of exercising your mind and THINKING BETTER?
Renewing your trust in yourself, so you can LIVE BETTER.
It’s kind of like another person constantly lying to you—eventually you stop trusting them. The same holds true with the promises you make to yourself that always end in disappointment.
Eventually, you stop trusting yourself.
And the solution in most cases is the same too: you have to renew your trust gradually, with small shifts in your thinking, small steps forward, and small victories. Of course, this process takes time, but it happens relatively fast if you stick to it. And it’s arguably one of the most important, life-changing things you can do for yourself.
Bottom line: The greatest conflict always resides in your mind first. You are what you think; you can’t change anything if you can’t change your thinking.
But the good news is YOU CAN change your thinking! And when you change the way you think, you can master a new way to be.
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