The only thing we can control…..

Deep in everybody’s soul is a GIANT screaming to be let out. ALL of us are destined for greatness and we all feel it bubbling around deep inside but we just don’t know what it is.

WE HAVE TO SEARCH for it.

How do we do that? By Listening.

There is so much chatter going on in our heads at any one time that it is really difficult to distinguish what we should be listening to and what we shouldn’t. I found a great way quite by accident…hmm, or maybe by design… to take time every day to do this without it cutting into all the busyness of our normal day.

Driving to the gym a while back in the black and cold early morning I switched on talk show radio as I normally do. About 10 secs in after listening to the announcers nasally consdescending tone I wondered where I could go next. At that time of the day their is not much to listen to and impulsively I punched the off button on my steering wheel.

It suddenly hit me …. Listen to the conversation inside my own head…..so I did. What a revelation.

If you want to know who you really are and what you are up to listen to yourself talking to you. I am a happy, well adjusted, focussed man with a ‘personal mission statement’ to last me for the rest of my life. I consider myself a generous, caring, giving person with a heart for others, but boy did I get a wake up call.

Conversation:

” I am so sick of people jumping red lights, one of these days one of these guys is going to be coming at me. People just completely ignore traffic rules these days it’s ridiculous. Wow, people out begging on streetcorners this early, why doesn’t the government do something about this it’s pathetic. Man if I hit another pothole I’m going to claim against the municipality for damage to my my car, why can’t they fix these darn things.”

I suddenly realised that this self talk was setting up my state of mind for the day and I didn’t like it.

Since that day I have become adept at listening to myself and each morning it has become habitual to be my own DJ of my own morning radio station and directing my own chatter in a positive meaningful way that will have me getting to the end of my day satisfied that I made a difference.

It has worked so well for me that I have added a second session just before I go to sleep and it has become habitual and constructive.

Try it for yourself, it’ll really make a difference to your life because although we cannot control potholes and bad drivers we can control what we put into our minds…in fact it’s the ONLY thing we can control.