Here is today’s Game and what’s going on.
Here is what I discovered today in Chapter 1 of Stop Doing That Shit by Gary John Bishop. The title of this chapter is “Here’s The Rub.”
Today’s readings serve as an introduction to Bishop’s urban philosophy and how we can end our self-sabotage. Let’s dive into today’s highlights:
- Your self-talk is the locker room of your life. Where everything is strategized and worked out. Where your plans for yourself live and die.
- In short, you are what you talk about, or rather you are the nature of what you talk about.
- The reality is, you create your experience of life in your self-talk and then act accordingly. And you’re doing it all the time. You’re never (like never, ever) acting upon life itself. What you are acting on is your opinion of life.
- In the day-to-day living of our lives, we mostly just experience the moods and emotions of our internal chatter without doing the work to determine what it’s really saying.
- When we sweep the negative emotion under our mental rug, deep down we still know something else. Something more akin to the truth. It’s like lying to yourself but you just don’t believe the lie. A con game.
- The way we work is that we can only ever be one way at a time. You can’t be angry and loving simultaneously in a single moment. You can’t be forgiving and resentful or indifferent and sad. At any moment in time, you’re always being one way and ONLY one way.
- A big part of living the life you want is taking ownership of your choices, now and in the future.
- When you finally understand where you are coming from, you are giving yourself a greater shot at changing how your life will go.
- When you put in the work, when you get down to that true, driving nature of yours, monumental change really is possible.
- Real breakthroughs become available in your life when you interrupt yourself and your automatic responses to whatever life presents you with.
- We spend very little time doing the actual thinking that will inspire new lives for ourselves.
- In your day-to-day life you are, for the most part, on autopilot. It’s why you miss the exit on your way to or from work, why you put on your pants, shoes, or jacket the same way every time, brush your teeth the way you do, and generally just get life done. Automatically.
- You’re not up on your toes, awake to your potential. You’re not alive to what it is that truly lights you up or engaged with the kind of life-changing stuff that will make this all worthwhile.
- What you think is “awake” is actually asleep. You might wake up near the end of this existence, but that will probably be far too late for you. Wake up to that, at least.
- If you hang in there until the end, do the thinking, uncover your subconscious motivations, and apply the ideas and principles, you’ll make more sense to yourself than you ever have, and you’ll have what you need to finally demand your life back.
Those gems lead us to today’s Dadly Daily Declaration:
A big part of living the life you want is taking ownership of your choices, now and in the future. When you finally understand where you are coming from, you are giving yourself a greater shot at changing how your life will go.
When you put in the work, when you get down to that true, driving nature of yours, monumental change really is possible.
This is your life, and it needs work.
It starts by waking up.
