Author: bkr7

“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing you’ll never get it done” Bruce Lee. How do you make sense of this quote?

The beginning of this summer feels bittersweet. We may be used to having structure during the year with work and school and may have been looking forward to the summer. Now our plans have probably changed. What is something you can do to maintain some structure and receive some joy throughout your days during this time?

What do you like about yourself? What is the first thing that comes to mind? What are three things that come to mind when you think about what you like about who you are?

The thought of the day is what you think about yourself. Now let’s think about how you came to identify those qualities. Are they physical or personality based? Are they centered around things you have done or relationships with others? Was it easy to come up with the list or a challenge? Do you feel that your list was kind to yourself or more critical? Is it possible that you are not giving yourself credit for the good in yourself? What we say to ourselves about who we are is a big determinant in the quality of our life outcomes. It either stifles or allows us to flourish. Worried? Don’t be! The list isn’t written in stone. It’s your mental list. If you find yourself wanting more out of the list you created, it’s your responsibility to add to it or change it. Try adding something to the list today and practice it. It can be something small just for today and just for you. Like yourself a little more. Craft the list of liking like a love story to yourself, a promise. A list that accepts, challenges, and changes but always a list that is kind to yourself. So again, what do you like about yourself?

The story we tell

Stories are important and perhaps there is no greater story than the one we tell ourselves. We secure our identity, create focus, and guide our behaviors and morals all by telling a story about who we are. Sometimes we are the author of this story and sometimes others are but the focus of Today’s Thought is about your power as an editor. While our stories can be grand and inspired, they can also be limiting. When they do so these stories no longer serve their purpose. That’s where we can serve as our own editor, not as someone that changes the events of the past but what the story means. We can take the lesson learned and guide the character.

Changing your personal narrative is challenging because we treat these stories as absolutes and that all we can ever be, but that doesn’t have to be the case. There are exceptions and addendums. You can take anything and add it to your story. Even now you can take a moment to change the thing the character does next. Imagine standing and the next movement is the one you make as the “revised” character, the one you are becoming. How would they be different if the story had no limits and the character was truly exceptional? What is the very first Act?.. Can we try it? Look around, what is the very first thing the character does in our revised story? Now..move.

So for today’s thought know…You are the focus of your story and you’re not done writing. “This is the moment she changed her story”.