Only Give Energy To The Thoughts That Serve You

Your mind is like a supercomputer that is always on. It’s always receiving input from your body, from your senses, from your memories and from you psyche. I’s constantly churning away, processing and throwing out results, like a non-stop tickertape machine.

But this computer is biased. It has a tendency to focus on the worst outcome possible. This is why, when you’re trying to get to sleep at night, it might bring up a record from deep inside its archives of something you might have said in a conversation thirteen years ago that may or may not have been misinterpreted as inappropriate or rude or just… weird.

You weirdo.

So, we must adopt a practice of focus, intention and separation. We must learn to use our focus like a tool, and with the power of our intention it can become something that we can control, something we can steer in different directions. So, when our mind starts to wander into areas that don’t serve us – undermining thoughts, negative self-talk, depressive notions – using the power of intention we can steer our focus away from those thoughts and focus it somewhere else.

This isn’t about controlling our thoughts. It’s about accepting that we can’t control them and letting them do their thing, but while they do that we’re going to focus our attention on more nourishing things. Things that don’t get in our way. Things that help us grow and move us forward.

Every time you find yourself thinking “I can’t” or “what’s the point” or “it’ll only fail” or “I’m a loser” just acknowledge those thoughts, and turn your attention elsewhere. Focus on where you want to go, what you want to achieve, and not the things that wish to stop you from achieving them. Or just focus on your breathing

Because here’s the thing. Time passes. And it passes whether you’re anxious and afraid, or confident and fearless. It passes whether you’re hiding under the duvet or whether you’re out there changing the world. The passing of time is constant, and unchangeable, and unstoppable. And the passing of time is the same for those people who are worrying about what people will think, and those people who are out there doing it anyway.

So, consider this question: What’s a better use of time – worrying about what might go wrong, or finding out what might go right?