Signals. Thoughts. Habits. Choices.
Understanding
Response
Between stimulus and response, there is space. In that space, let emotions move through you rather than fighting them. Resistance is what makes them stick.
Reframe
If you feed your mind trash, you're going to feel like trash. You're running old survival software that was useful once but no longer serves you. Thoughts create feelings. Change the thought, the feeling follows.
Presence
Anxiety often means you're caught in the future. Depression often means you're caught in the past - though both can trap you in either direction.
Ruminating on the future breeds worry. Ruminating on the past breeds regret. The present is where you have agency.
Remember
Learn from it, but don't live there.
Performance
Your best performances come when work is a full expression of you.
The work becomes a natural display of your personality.
Because in doing the craft, you feel alive.
Action
When you change your habits, everything shifts.
habit — accumulated patterns
Control
The only real power you have is you and your choices.
choice — moment-to-moment agency