THE MIND BOGGLES!!

Change Your Life | November 9 2023 No. 834

 

 

 

Want to know more about what we've covered in today's extra special video? Join me live on Zoom tomorrow, Friday Nov.10th at 1.00pm UK/Irish time. I'll be online to answer your questions.

 

 

 

This Week's Reflection

 

I regularly receive emails from people who have "fallen off the wagon" or, in other words, fallen out of their regular practice of meditation (notice I neither used the words "habit" nor "routine"!).

 

They're frequently annoyed with themselves, often frustrated and sometimes feeling guilty. They complain about lack of self-discipline or laziness or both!

 

But have a good look at this week's video and consider what we're up against. How, being surrounded by madness, we can feel more "comfortable" being that little bit crazy ourselves. How, having got this "far" in our lives, we can deny the imperative of taking control (of our state, our emotions, our life).

 

All this could be taken as some kind of confirmation that the road to the life that you would love to live is straight and narrow - too straight and too narrow - too great a challenge, requiring the kind of discipline unbecoming of the normal undisciplined mind.

 

It is not so. Yes, we need some discipline - a little, not a lot. Yes, we need structure and, as I've found over nearly 28 years of doing this, we need support.

 

And we need to be reminded. Of what? Well, some simple things for a start. If you've fallen off the wagon it doesn't matter - what matters is that you get back on it. If you're annoyed with yourself for falling off the wagon, more fool you - doesn't that annoyance just encourage the ramblings of the normal crazy mind? If you're feeling frustrated or guilty, multiply that madness a couple of times or, if you really think you've lost it, multiply it exponentially!

 

I mention my Online Program, The Psychology of Success in this week's video. I mention it unashamedly because it provides the three things that we all need to take the gentle and simple steps that we can all take to transform our lives immediately: discipline, structure and support.

 

And, bearing in mind that you are the most important person in your life, investing in yourself might just be the one thing that will prove to be the game-changer. If you want to find out more about the Online Program, click here. And, if you don't, well, aren't we going to go deeper over the next couple of weeks' Thursday morning videos!