Have you ever had one of those days like this?
Beep, beep, beep.
The alarm clock goes.
You press snooze for 10 more minutes…
After pressing the ‘SNOOZE THE SAVIOUR’ button for the fourth time, you finally leap out of bed like you’ve just heard an angry bee BUZZING at your ear.
With THAT big realisation.
Yes – you have over-slept!!
DAMN!!
So…
You scramble off to the shower, effing and blinding while cleaning your teeth at the same time.
Multi-tasking at it’s best!
You KNOW you are gonna be late for work and the boss will be pissed at you.
Dashing around the bed room like a blue-arsed fly, you find yourself now looking for that EVER elusive sock that ALWAYS goes missing at these crucial times.
And yes – it’s the last place you would of looked.
It ALWAYS is, right?? 😉
So you are finally dressed, you think you can save 10 minutes of travel by skipping a proper breakfast.
What a plan… It won’t matter.
You’ll grab that sugary cereal bar, and alongside a strong coffee at work you know this WILL fire you up for the morning.
SIMPLES!
Off you go out into the real world thinking of great and original excuses to cover up why you are late again.
The dog was playing hide and seek with my car keys, honest!
The alarm didn’t work – kinda true, right?
Anyway…
Life does it’s THING again and you come up against the biggest traffic jam of the year.
Typical.
Just accept it that you are late.
Again…
..and a little pissed off!
Today is gonna be one of those days with one thing after another.
But why do they always happen to me you think?
So you get to work, you grovel to the boss and then you hit the coffee machine.
Right let’s go – it’s time to get really productive and please the boss. Come on emails – do your worse!!
NOPE.
The DAMN computer refuses to turn on.
Do you ever get those days when you think waking up was the problem?
Hey we all do – that’s normal.
Well something THAT has now WOKE UP is your flippin stomach, oh my days you are starving!!
You cannot wait until lunch, you’ll eat your own arm.
The vending machine is going to have to do.
Yes you know a mars bar and packet of crisps is not part of the plan but you don’t care about that right now.
You’re out of your mind.
LUNCH TIME.
Phew!
A lovely mindful walk and a good healthy lunch and you’re back in the room.
It only took 6 hours from over-sleeping for 30 minutes.
3pm has arrived and you cannot get that mars bar and packet of crisps out of your head.
No – you don’t want them again.
But somethings BUGGING away at you.
Why did you shovel them down your face like a hungry rabbit-dog??
That wasn’t you – The guilt, the shame!!
That’s it, you’re pissed off even more – here we go again.
It’s been a BAD day at the office.
What do you normally do in this situation? Oh yeah… You’re having a take-away and bottle of red tonight, it’ll cheer you up.
Yes, it’s a school night but you’ll start back on the plan tomorrow.
Has this ever been your day?
Those days where all you do is REACT and make choices that don’t serve you well.
And hear that question humming away –Â WAS THAT REALLY YOU?
See how your day can be INFLUENCED by the CHOICES you take and WHO YOU ACTUALLY ARE when you have to make those CHOICES?
Most people start their day rushing around getting STRESSED before they’re even out of the door.
Shoveling sugary cereals, bread and juices in their face.
Starting the day with a high sugar breakfast does various things to your blood sugar and hormones.
This often leads you to ride a sugar rollercoaster all day with energy highs and lows, and carb cravings.
And CHOICES that don’t serve you well which you then associate with BAD decisions.
Those decisions then INFLUENCE your day.
The thing is – when we start badly, then all those TRIVIAL little bits and bobs around us seem to MAGNIFY into bigger things and issues.
Start the day MINDFULLY and CLEARLY and with a protein based breakfast, a large glass of water and you’ll set yourself up for a much more ‘body friendly’ day!
But it’s not always that easy, right?
We normally make decisions that don’t always serve us when we are not our HUMAN self.
You see after studying human behavour patterns you come to realise that people are never the same person throughout the day.
And this is simply WHY people do the things that they do and ULTIMATELY not do.
Because it’s not the fact that they make these choices that you associate as bad, it’s actually who you are when that moment in time comes to make that certain choice.
The TRUTH is that people don’t make dodgy choices in life on purpose.
And this is WHY the Mindset abilities will always WIN or LOSE I’m afraid with whatever you are trying to achieve in life.
As they say “wherever the focus goes, the energy flows”
But…
What if you could get a better understanding of this?
And what if a simple understanding of this could help influence your decisions in the day when the tide gets rough?
What if I could teach you HOW to slow life down?
You see when you have that basic understanding then you start to become pretty POWERFUL.
A Healthier Mindset INFLUENCES the CHOICES we make and the ACTIONS we take to INSPIRE the life that we want to CREATE.
Well if you do want that.
Then…
Just as ever, I’m available if you need to know more.