1 Word to Add to Your Vocabulary
So your automatic brain is pelting you with thoughts all day long.
Here are some of the thoughts my brain has been throwing at me today:
You’re so behind.
You’re spending way too much time on this.
You’ll never get everything done.
You’re making a huge mistake.
And of course, all of those thoughts come with a feelings cocktail attached — tension, stress, urgency, that stomach-dropping, roller-coaster-free-fall feeling 🎢
And listen. I have a lot to do today. I don’t have time to go into Thought Battle with all these sentences all day long.
So here’s the one word I use to give myself a little slice of separation:
“Proposition”
Proposition: I’m so behind.
Proposition: I’m spending too much time on this.
Proposition: I’ll never get everything done.
Proposition: I’m making a mistake.
That one word turns the thought from an indictment into a suggestion.
It’s no longer an inarguable statement of truth.
It’s a proposition up for debate.
And when I put the word “proposition” in front of it, I can consider: Is it true?
Or is this just background noise I can disregard?
An uninformed heckle that I don’t even need to argue with?
Because the guy forming all these propositions looks like this? ⬇️
I don’t need to change every thought and flip every feeling to get things done.
I just need to take my automatic brain a little less seriously :)
And if you want to learn how to do the same…
To not need to change everything in your brain right away…
But just have a lighter, funnier relationship with the silly little guy that lives in your head…
Then come talk to me. Let’s have a laugh, give him a hug, and start teaching him how to be more helpful.
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