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Master your thoughts to achieve your dreams
Episode 117
To achieve your dreams, goals, and desires it means mastering your thoughts, and mastering your thoughts means you must master your attention.
[00:01:08] Hey, it's Penny here, and back with another episode of Design Your Destiny. I've been having a lot of conversations about thoughts and feelings and what comes first when we are dealing with our mindset. So many people, myself included I used to be one of these people, get caught up in doing all of the things that we have to do. I mean, as a responsible business owner there is a time in business where you're juggling a lot of balls in the air, and then you are begging to build teams. Then you're juggling becoming a leader and handing things off. Then you're moving into refining the way in which you do things, which hopefully you're refining the way you do things all along. But as we know there are bottlenecks that we can get into in business. When it comes to these things we can really get bogged down in following through on the actions. We can even step into a place of, you know, forgetting. Not consciously choosing, but we lose sight of our goals, and we become focused on achieving these short-term gains that get us to our goals. When we are focusing all of our attention on the reward of the short-term gain we are getting these little dopamine hits, right? It can condition our brain to continually be looking for the next thing that we need to do.
[00:03:16]
When we are head down in the doing of our business, all of the things that must be done, the things that must be handled. Until we get to a point where we can hand these things off. our minds can go into a state of habit. Just head down get it done, head down get it done. Sometimes when we do these things we're in the zone, we're in flow. Our emotional mind is pushed to the side, and we're focused in, and things are just flowing through and we are oblivious to the world around us. But, other times we are doing things out of habit. It's just another task that has to be done 'oh my gosh let me put my head down, let me get this done', and when we are working out of habit we are not being mindful. When we are not being mindful our subconscious mind is running the show underneath the surface.
[00:04:16]
Now you may say habits are good. Habits are good things, yes. Habits are good things, but when we operate out of habit, meaning that we are not being mindful of what we are doing and our attention actually on the task. Then we actually have subconscious thoughts that run all the time. It's like the monkeys in the circus they just don't stop. Unless you learn to be mindful and quiet your mind. Because you can be working on something out of habit. Say it is a task you don't like very much and you haven't outsourced it yet, or you're in a crunch and you're like you know what in the time it takes me, and this is actually a bad habit to have in business I know that, in the time that it takes me to communicate this, make sure it gets done, and report it back. I can just do it faster myself. So there comes a point in business when that becomes a control issue, but when you're new and you're learning to navigate those things. It's easy to fall into, I know because I've been there. I have had to force myself to step back, be patient, and hand things off unless it's urgent. But, you know, when you're doing these things, your mind is underneath the surface, you know, 'I don't want to be doing this'. You may not be thinking about it when you're doing it you're going through the motions, but your mind is going through all of these stressful thoughts underneath. Like when is the pressure going to end, how long are we going to keep doing this, right, I need some help. It creates stress and tension in our body, or the other side of that could be if you have someone on your team that was doing this before and let's say you got burned. Underneath the surface, your mind could be g
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