MINUTES of a MONDAY #143
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Slán - Niall☘️ **
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Due to a shameful lack of organisation and a small litany of technical glitches the recording had to be abandoned this week. I won’t bore you with the details!
BRAIN FOOD: Awareness over Motivation
“You don’t need more motivation. You need more awareness.
This is where the coding of values into ourselves is either deepened or disappears. We don’t drift into becoming who we want to be. We drift into oblivion. The ship needs to be steered. Why?
Because the modern world is built to numb, distract and sedate. Your goals are not stolen by failure. They’re stolen by forgetting. That’s why awareness is everything. You cannot control every outcome. But you can control whether or not you are awake to your values today. Refocusing is not a rousing speech; it’s a quiet action. It’s priming yourself for the resistance before it shows up. It’s recommitting to your ideal before the emotion sways you. It’s remembering who you said you are and behaving accordingly.
Pre-prepare Your Awareness
This takes less than 3 minutes every morning. Prime yourself before distraction hijacks your attention. Name your core value for the day.
Pick just one. Discipline, presence, courage, ownership; whatever makes sense for the demands of that day. Visualise the likely stress point.
Where will this value be tested? What resistance will most likely challenge you, derail you? How would you like to react?
Write your mental reset cue. A short phrase that aligns and centres you within the challenge.
Examples:
Work → “Finish what you start”
Family → “Lead with love”
Parenthood → “Be the lesson”
Training → “Think long term”
Passing of Life → “Aim to see the best in people today”
Say it out loud once. Not as a mantra but to connect with it. See it. Feel it. The point is not perfection. The point is presence. Prepare yourself to practice the value you desire to deepen. Everything is training.”
Extract from Damien Browne’s Always Learning, a 3 minute newsletter which pops into my inbox each week.
SOUL FOOD:
“The past is a teacher, not a judge. Your next move matters more than your last mistake.”
Anonymous
LOL:
Omid Djalili on Germany & refugees:
APPENDIX:
“Greatness of the soul will be lost, which can’t stand out, unless it disdains as petty what the mob regards as most desirable.”
Seneca
ANY OTHER BUSINESS (A.O.B):
That’s us for #143 my friend.
Slightly later than usual, but normal service will be resumed next week I assure you.
Slán agus beannacht - Niall