I woke up this morning with the beliefs that I went to bed with. I chose, consciously or unconsciously to be the person I was yesterday. I wanted coffee when I woke up. I put the same things in it and I wore the same style clothes. I thought about the same things I tend to think about as I started my day. The way I defined yesterday-my past, my reality, is what I will base my beliefs about today and tomorrow’s potential on, even if O don’t know I’m choosing it.
Besides the monotony of living everyday similar to the last, there is also a limiting belief that I’m reinforcing and programming into my mindset that locks me into a pattern I might wish didn’t exist, but don’t know how to change.
I challenge you to seek “different” and see what happens. If you’re a Seinfeld fan, then you may remember when George does the opposite of everything he would normally do and suddenly all these new opportunities emerge. I remember reading something that said that one of the best ways to interrupt a pattern, is to simply start the day brushing your teeth with the opposite hand to get your brain accustomed to change.
The amazing thing about life, is that we can at any time do a re-write. Our events that pass in time carry the meaning WE assign to it. But if that meaning is creating a negative pattern and limiting belief then we can, at any time, decide to change the meaning.
Big change happens as soon as you shift from believing that the setback you’ve experienced has ruined everything you wanted, and instead, decide to define it as redirecting you to the path you didn’t know you were supposed to be on. Maybe you haven’t been broken, rejected, lost, or denied but rather you’ve been saved from going in a direction that would have taken you somewhere that your unique awesomeness would have been wasted.
What if your circumstances are simply the vessel for a purpose that can be lived no matter where you end up?
What if you’re the superstar on a team scoring all the goals.. your team wins. Great!!
What if you’re the injured player that encourages, instructs, holds accountable teammates that can now reach their potential and score tons of goals…your team wins.
In BOTH scenarios you are a vital team member that victory could not have happened without.
What if you lose? What if you look at your performance and you feel shame, frustration or anger? What will that mean for your truth, beliefs about your future, in the days that follow?
Because the definition is completely up to you, why not do a rewrite? Yesterday we lost. Yesterday I got injured. Yesterday I made a mistake.
Now- the MOST important part comes in. What does that mean for your future? Your brain is going to subconsciously decide what it means if you choose NOT to create a definition that aligns with where you want to go.
Yesterday we lost. Without this loss, we might have felt false confidence and headed into our next game without the hunger we need to succeed. We may not have learned that we had a weakness in that area and now we have time to focus on it and make it better. We are in a better position to prepare for important games than before the loss and we are excited about how good we are going to be!
Yesterday I got injured. There are things I love that I can’t do right now, but there are things I could never focus on as a teammate and a student before because there was no time. I can now build strengths that I can add as valuable skills while contributing in ways that might just push our team over the obstacles that have held us back. I can try new activities, find new things I love, things I may have never tried that I love even more!
Choose new things today, brush your teeth with the other hand, wear a different color, look through a new lens, write a new story, step in a new direction, talk to a different person, get in a different line.
If you’re a Wizard of Oz fan then maybe this will resonate- Dorothy had the power all along to go back home. She spent the whole journey believing she was stuck and needed a wizard to save her. In the end, the wizard turned out to be powerless and she was the hero to herself and those she met along the way.
She needed to believe in who she can be. She had the power all along.
And so do you. ♥️
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