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Making Monday
I've heard it said that how we feel on Mondays is one of the clearest indicators of life satisfaction. Here is a quick thought on how to make Monday—and every day—work better...
Plugging In Our Cords
Given half a chance, we give away our agency and power to others, organizations, or even things.
As a mentor of mine once quipped, “It's like we all walk around looking for a place to plug in our umbilical cords.”
BTW I'm very aware, sitting here typing that this includes a certain coach who looks back at me in the mirror. ;-)
This self-sabotage takes a thousand forms. I'll write more on these in the future, but forms vary from outright childlike dependency and magical fantasies of being rescued…
To subtle conditional self-limiting thoughts that start with phrases like “I can't,” “I need,” or “I must.”
But for now, I want to share a mindset I find to be a clarifying alternative to these tendencies. Try this on for size and fit:
I do whatever I want, whenever I want…
With complete consciousness of cause and effect, aware of the spiritual, emotional, physical, and relational consequences of all my choices and actions…
And 100% responsibility for the outcomes, accountable only to Reality and my personal integrity.
These 3 sentences remind me that my thoughts, speech, and actions are of my choice and volition.
Someone or something can present me with a compelling set of consequences for behaving one way or another, but the choice is still mine of whether to comply.
So I have choice, but I also see that everything I do comes with consequences.
Every choice leads closer to a life of health, prosperity, and fulfillment...
Or to greater pain and difficulty.
Seeing this confers power in shifting life direction.
And by taking full responsibility for the outcomes, rather than attributing them to external causes, I learn what works and what doesn't.
In this way, I actually get better at this thing called life.
Together, let's end the fight to change…
Delmar
