Here is today’s Game and what’s going on.
Here is what I discovered today in our Dadly Daily Declaration reading from Chapter 12 of Stop Doing That Shit by Gary John Bishop. The title of this chapter is “Redirecting Your Way Outta This.”
There are lots of nuggets again today. So, we’re going to divide this chapter over two days. Here are today’s highlights:
- The reality is that every day is NOT a new day, because you are always starting from the burden of some of the earliest points of your childhood, continuing to act on those conclusions and carrying them into each day thereafter.
- Your past dominates your potential. You don’t live a life of “anything is possible;” you live a life of “some things are possible, given my past.”
- You’re stunted, limited, a dreamer with no chance of breaking out of this self-imposed prison. Every day you begin from the past. Every idea, every hope, every plan, all of it, begins back there. Is it any wonder you never get anywhere? Your starting point is pushed way back, and you are irretrievably anchored to it.
- You’re dozing off at the wheel of your life, maintaining a loop of the past. And at some level, you know it!
- Everything you’re trying to do is only to subconsciously prove the legitimacy of what you concluded, to return you to your point of experience and set you off in pursuit again. Your pointless diets, your awkward and hellish exercise regimes, your crappy relationships, your litany of financial disasters and splintered dreams, your job that no one else would do, let alone die for, your ever-dwindling ambition.
- You are always winning. Even when you are apparently losing, it’s a win for this cycle of BS.
- You don’t just have to overcome life, or the immediacy of your concerns; you have to overcome yourself — and not your best self but rather your worst, most negative, most cynical self.
Those gems lead us to today’s Dadly Daily Declaration:
Your life will go in the direction of whatever you give your attention, time, energy and actions to, even if you mistakenly think that what you are doing will eventually fix the problem. Constantly trying to fix problems fills your life with…problems.
Whatever you resist persists, by virtue of your resistance.
You’ve been living your life according to the past, but you now need to make the pivot to make your life about what’s new, about your potential and your legacy. New emotional approaches, new behaviors, new habits, the kind of stuff that demonstrates the life you say you want.
