This is How You Can USE THINKING As a Tool to BECOME UNSTOPPABLE

My grandmother used to always tell me that a person can change at any time. A person can become better and remove or adopt any characteristics that he or she wants/needs in life.

Fast forward to me not being a teenager anymore I truly believe her. The more I live my life the truer it gets. That a human being can change himself at any point in his life.

A human being is nothing but a recollection of thoughts he has about himself. 

The thought is the ability to differentiate, a tool to have clear judgment. To make a conscious decision, and choose the best thing to do based on your thinking ability.

We think we are the thought itself. We are more powerful than that. We are who we think we are. The thought is separate from our being. It’s not our being, it’s outside of our being. Still attached to us, still part of us. Thinking is what makes us human.  We can’t choose which thought will arise in our minds. We can choose which one we will believe in and accept as our truth. 

You can become anyone you want. You can build and rebuild yourself continuously. But never let yourself feel that who you already are isn’t enough. Only if you come from a good place you can transform yourself. If you really love yourself that’s when you want it to be the best version of itself.

A human being is also a recollection of the habits he has. 

By adopting and removing certain habits you rebuild yourself. 

Something only becomes a habit when it’s done every day, consistently. It continues to be a habit when your whole wanting it, continually and consistently. 

Here is an example to help you understand this concept better.

The night before you’ve decided to go to the gym. Your toddler woke up at night several times. Then your toddler woke you up in the morning by crying. When you open your eyes you get thoughts; I feel terrible, I want more sleep, why does this always happen when I want to go to the gym, I don’t have energy, should I skip a workout today? You know what I will still go to the gym and do at least a short workout, no no I don’t think I can, and so on…

First, there was a feeling of tiredness, then you became aware of that tiredness and started describing all your negative feelings. You think that feeling shouldn’t be there. You dislike it. You started having opinions about it. Your opinions are your thoughts. You got two options to go to or not to go to the gym. Whichever “wins” depends on you. Energy goes where your thoughts are. Energy also flows where you put your focus. If you focus on what’s “wrong” with you, the outcome will be that you skip that workout. If you shift your focus on what’s actually working you will put your workout clothes on and go to the gym.

You will go and complete the workout if; When you wake up and feel all those feelings and start to have all those negative thoughts you decide to shift your focus. You will change your thoughts consciously by bringing your focus on the areas of you or your life that works and actually feels good. It’s called gratitude.

Here is how you can transform the thoughts I mentioned above; I feel tired, but I’m grateful that I woke up, that I’m perfectly healthy, I have my eyes, legs, both hands on me. I can talk and I have a child, yes I don’t like that she woke me up several times but at least she’s well and healthy, I will drink my tea/coffee and put on my workout clothes because I promised myself that I would go to the class, I know the universe is testing me if I really wanted to go to the class in the first place, tomorrow is a new day and I can go to the bed early today or I can have a 10 min nap in the car, some days are better than others and it is normal for me to have all these feelings and emotions, but I know that I want to feel better and I also know that what will make me feel better is if I accomplish my task and will do my workout.

You know the right decision is to go to the gym. Not because scientists say so, but because of the feeling you get after completing a workout. The feeling of accomplishment, the feeling of gaining power over yourself. You know that if you push through your discomfort there lies the comfort. The comfort of liking yourself and being satisfied with yourself.

Also, we have to listen to our bodies. I had moments in life when my body absolutely needed the rest. We have to learn how to differentiate our inner voice from just a lazy thought. Before I just asked one question to myself Am I lazy to go and do my workout or does my body truly need a rest? Now I just intuitively know what’s the right thing to do and what my body actually needs.

If you do it 80% of the time, if you have the habit of shifting your focus to the direction that will bring more value, your life will be transformed. Moment by moment you have to create a habit of choosing the right thing. You have to do it so often that you start to filter your thought automatically. 

Thinking is a tool that if used right can transform your life and if not it can ruin your whole life. You are the master and you can take control of your thoughts any time you want to. 

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