We continue our Dadly Daily Declaration series with readings from the Chapter 6 of Unfu*k Yourself by Gary John Bishop. The title of this chapter is the personal assertion: “I am not my thoughts; I am what I do.”
So, let’s dive into today’s declarations from chapter 6. Here are a few gems from today’s reading:
- What is it that separates successful people from you and me? Successful people understand one simple thing: What they think and what they do don’t always have to align.
- Most of us let our internal condition weigh heavily on what we do. But the truly great performers are great precisely because they’ve learned to experience those feelings while sidestepping the inclination to act upon them…They simply focus and lean in. They act anyway.
- You’re going to have days when you don’t want to get out of bed, when you don’t want to go to work, when you don’t want to take care of your responsibilities. But you do. Every day you engage in activities that you don’t really want to do. That means you already have a muscle for having thoughts and acting independently of them.
- You don’t have to feel like today is your day; you just have to act like it is.
- If we sit around waiting to be in the perfect mood, we are never going to get started. While inspiration or motivation may strike once in a while, both of those things are fickle friends and cannot be depended upon to show up whenever you need them.
- You change your life by doing, not by thinking about doing. In fact when you become closely associated with the actions you are taking, something magical starts to become apparent. Doing changes your thinking.
- The benefits of doing are twofold:
- Doing gets you doing what you need to do. But it also quickly changes your thoughts.
- Thoughts can become your reality. So, when your reality is one of acting on the things that are in your best interest, your thoughts will actually shift to match that.
- If you always attack the task at hand without hesitation, what will you think the next time you have something important to do? Your thoughts start to become intuitive action over time until you start to act independently of your negative thoughts time after time after time.
- When you can focus your attention on the action at hand, eventually your consciousness starts to get the idea.
- Only through your actions do your thoughts actually become your life.
- Our minds can sometimes blur our lives and our potential, distort and contorting like a funhouse mirror.
- Our minds often have an unrealistic perception of the world; the more we strive to get our reality to match this design, the more we struggle.
- By accepting and including your thoughts as just a small part of the whole and getting down to taking actions, you will slowly start to realize just how out of touch you’ve been all along.
- Doing gets you doing what you need to do. But it also quickly changes your thoughts.
Those gems lead us to today’s Dadly Daily Declaration:
You are not your thoughts. You are not defined by what’s inside your head. You are what you do. Your actions.
The next time you you are feeling or experiencing any sort of negative or diminishing thought that is disempowering, move on immediately. Act independently of that thought. Act in a way that’s in your best interests rather than in a way that is dominated by how you automatically think and feel. Each time will be better than the last.
