There’s a truth about our minds: As long as we are alive, our brains are on.
Even while we’re asleep, our minds are still on and (to a degree) receptive. Even in comas our brains have a degree of awareness and receptivity.
And when we’re conscious, we have a constant stream of thought.
I believe that thoughts have power. No matter how minimal or dispersed, I believe that every single thought that we have has power. I also believe that our minds will align our actions, behaviors and habits to bring us into contact with what we think about the most. Not what we want the most, but what we think about the most.
I have taken on a new habit because of this. My new habit is to continually repeat an empowering belief, over and over again in my mind, to reinforce it. I contemplate beliefs and ideas that I want to make into my reality. I call this performance forming mindset.
This is a lot different than where my mind tends to default. When I am not intentionally conditioning my mind, my mind will tend to “check in” on different problems I am experiencing and on instances where I didn’t get what I wanted. Now, the reason I have this habit in the first place is to solve problems and improve areas that need improvement. That’s a good thing. But when the problem can’t be immediately solved or when my mind is continually visiting things that are not what I want, it wears me down. This is what I call problem solving mindset.
Both mindsets are good and useful, but I think it would be much more constructive for my default mindset be performance forming, instead of problem solving. Problem solving is a good mindset to intentionally visit, examine and then close. Performance forming mindset is a good mindset to live in because it is inspiring, uplifting and it reinforces the reality that I want to live in.
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