Have you ever been at the end of your day just to ask yourself. What happened today? You feel like you did most of what you needed to do but you have no idea how and you feel scattered while you carried on with your day?

I have.

I have also had days when I got to the end of it and realized that I didn’t get things done that I planned to. I had plenty of time but found other things to do.

This is because we haven’t organized our minds.

When we take the time to organize our minds we then can organize everything else in our lives. Show me someone’s home and I can tell you about their brain.

If you choose to organize your mind and manage your thoughts you will inevitably have an organized home and space.

This also goes for a mismanaged mind. I will often see their space is mismanaged, disorganized and they run around with their hair on fire.

Don’t start judging yourself if you’ve done this, you do this or if you eventually find yourself doing this. It’s does not make you a good or bad person. It doesn’t mean you are a better human. It’s just the difference between a managed mind or not.

I love this concept of something I learned from the life coach school called Monday hour one. It’s a training that helps you to get all of your scheduling done the first hour of Monday then you meet back up with your schedule on the last hour of Friday to find out what you accomplished. There are varying degrees of mastery of this concept and it’s such a cleansing tool.

However, I’ve noticed that when this tool is presented to people they will oftentimes use it to beat themselves up and make themselves bad or wrong.

Setting aside an hour at the start of the week and assessing your progress at the end of the week is such a beautiful gift you can give yourself but when we don’t do it like the person who has mastered it and taught us or we don’t do it like we thought we would we punch ourselves in the face.

To me it’s like getting a gift delivered to your front door. When you unwrap and open the box there is a Big red boxing glove inside. It’s to be used to punch the things out of your way throughout the day that aren’t on your schedule. It’s there to help you clear up your schedule and stay focused on what matters. As you pull it out of the box and put it on you think to yourself, “this is the thing that is going to make everything better. I hope it works.” Then your day comes at you and you start punching things away that aren’t on your calendar. You begin by punching the Netflix out of the picture. Then you punch the laundry in the face. Then before you know it pretty soon you are punching more difficult things and end up punching your friends off your schedule or kids. Then you realize what you’ve done and use the punching glove to punch yourself in the face for doing it wrong.

Or another scenario could be that you put the glove on, punch at something and miss then throw the glove in a dark corner never to be used again. Every time you walk by it you say to yourself, it didn’t work. I tried and it didn’t work.

I say let’s stop punching ourselves in the face altogether and don’t use a good thing to punch ourselves in the face.

We can try new things all the time. We will find ourselves trying more new things and seeing them succeed if we refuse to punch ourselves in the face.

Some things work and some don’t.

Some things take work to make them work and some things just aren’t for us.

The next time you want to punch yourself in the face…because there’s always a next time. Bring up your other hand and push the glove back down.

Remind yourself that mistakes are a part of the process. Not being good at something is normal.

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