The Daily Do

Intuition and gut feelings aren’t supernaturally guided paths, they’re your deep subconscious mind working super actually fast. ‘I’ve just got this feeling’ is in fact the result of your brain’s computation, lightning fast snap judgement with the given information. Our subconscious is exceptional at filtering out the fluff, evolved to make decisions fast from extremely complex stuff!

If 'Christmassy' is a feeling, I felt it yesterday, when a little boy queuing in front of me gave his favourite game away. The elderly lady in front of him was asking at the till for a game for which her eldest grandson would apparently kill. Sold out and no more coming but you might find one online, the man behind the counter explained she was out of luck this time. But then...

Why steer your ship trapped in the bowels of the whirling, thinking engine room? STOP and stand upon the bridge in silence, and your way will be clear soon. Trying to frame the power of doing nothing is a task, but try this and then see what happens is all that I can ask. Stop and you will gain the presence of your life, and from this vantage point your actions fall in line. Stop, cast off the weight of thinking and allow the power of peace, puncture the trance of "I must do", unwind and simply be.

Comparison to others is a fickle friend and foe, it does not travel well, and changes everywhere you go. Far better inner confidence in who you are today, your best and only comparison is who you were yesterday. If the castle of our confidence is built on shifting sands, the sand will shift and we’ll be left with little confidence. Better or worse, more or less than others, slips too quickly from our view, the only person you need to better is the ever growing you!

Whilst looking back this year we might lick some wounds but hindsight does bring a gift, foresight, the power to change what doesn’t work, to learn, to reach, to shift. Leaning forward in spite of challenging times isn’t denying problems exist, it’s knowing that the other option is to allow them to persist. Outside circumstance does not need to dim the power that you hold, to be a force for growth and strength, a radiant individual.

When you think you just don’t have the time, that’s when you must find stillness. A calm mind stretches time, tasks define and you thrive in wellness. Five minutes now, in silence, focused and refocused on your breathing, then your priorities and hence efficiency streamline by how you are perceiving. Precision is impactful, headless chicken run is not, five unthinking minutes and clear vision’s what you’ve got.

When you see a change coming jump head first into it’s waves, today is all the sweeter when you’ve planned tomorrow's ways. Set in stone some dates in January that excite you in new directions, don’t wait until it hits you in the debris of celebrations. Have a little plan that sees you thriving and excited, and the new year will come welcome not hard and uninvited.

Imagine every media post you look at on your phone was actual post mounting up coming through your door. Every blog post is a leaflet, every advert a flyer, every email a new letter, telegrams from instagram and little cards from twitter. See the paper mountain that is filling up your mind, put down your phone and it is gone, and now it’s all YOU time. 

We cling onto discomfort if it’s the only raft we know, but there’s another life of comfort if only we’d let go. Let go of the guilt and shame that has us thinking life must be hard, replaced with the far more potent fuel of feeling good and being inspired. All manner of things begin to shift towards your favour when upbeat, the upward spiral of feeling good, the spring under your feet.

If you spoke to friends as you do to yourself you’d have no friends at all, so rewrite the inner voice that makes you feel weak or small. Take a minute, step back and love yourself as your best friend, then say what you would say, in the way you would to them. Use words you’d use for pals, and cut out words you would not use, guide yourself with love and care, not anger and abuse.