Resetting is waking up with a clear mindset, freed from the clutter of yesterday…
Resetting is also an opportunity to shift perspective, to see things with new eyes, to take things with a grain of salt, to get a fresh start, to pivot into something you’ve always wanted to do or be.
1. Be willing to be a beginner every single morning. – Meister Eckhart
2. Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. – Carl Bard
3. Every sunset is an opportunity to reset. Every sunrise begins with new eyes. – Richie Norton
4. We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. – Joseph Campbell
5. I hope you realize that every day is a fresh start for you. That every sunrise is a new chapter in your life waiting to be written. – Juansen Dizon
6. Life is a progress, and not a station. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
7. I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become. – Carl Gustav Jung
8. A year from now you may wish you had started today. – Karen Lamb
Last Words Of Advice
Resetting does not necessarily mean starting over.
It means what was once a problem no longer is to you, whether the problem is existant or non existant.
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People are therefore prone to negative thinking. However, negativity destroys performance and brings down your energy.
In order to find a positive focus and gain mental control:
Be aware of your negativity. To become self-ware, practice silence, define your passion, principles and purpose.
Prohibit the negative self-talk.
Focus on positive self-talk or affirmations. Add positive imagery and feelings to those affirmations.
Find a mantra or an affirmation that will run in the background of your mind.
How to gain mental toughness?
Mental toughness is sustaining positive focus on one task, on the one thing that keeps you going. Mental toughness helps you concentrate on your tasks for long periods of time without any distractions.
To develop mental toughness:
Practice concentration on a daily basis.
Understand that your overall success depends on every single choice that you make.
Acknowledge that the small choices lead you towards excellence and shape your life the most.
Educate yourself on how stress works, how you react to it and learn to eliminate it from your life.
Develop the disciplines of a Warrior
According to Mark Divine, Warriors are those who have achieved mental control and mental toughness.
They have learnt to discipline their mind so they can focus on the things that matter most, maintain positive focus when they need it most, avoid being distracted by negative emotions and negative beliefs.
Since the Warrior is committed to mastering himself or herself, he or she has mastered the following disciplines:
Simplicity. They have learnt to detach themselves from material things that they don’t need.
Dedication. They apply themselves daily but don’t take themselves too seriously.
Unbeatable Mind: Forge Resiliency and Mental Toughness to Succeed at an Elite Level by Mark Divine is a great guide for being and maintaining positivity no matter what.
Mark Divine gives sound and practical advice, using his 20 years of experience as a Navy Seal.
Mark Divine applies what he learnt with the NAVY to his regular life and work. He teaches you how to:
Discipline yourself and manage your emotions.
Reject mediocrity.
Build up your resilience.
get the life and career you want.
Unbeatable Mind: Forge Resiliency and Mental Toughness to Succeed at an Elite Level is useful for leaders, corporate teams and all those who want to condition their mind, body and soul.
I definitively loved the military aspect, principles and parallels in the book. However, because of his experience, some of his analogies are extreme and unrelatable.
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Consistency is the omnipotent force behind change.
We are rarely, if ever, encouraged to spend time in silence or get to know the depth of our character.
Negativity destroys performance in the short term and precludes success and happiness in the long term.
Lack of meaning and purpose is a major cause of despair and despondency in the world.
Our thoughts are a way for us to process our experiences and deal with our emotions…
Our thoughts are necessary for us to understand our situation, to find solutions, to make decisions and to plan for the future.
Our thoughts plague us with negative emotions, stop us from leaving in the present, steal our joy and peace of mind.
It just seems that we just don’t stop thinking and our mind is constantly cluttered.
Four Reasons For Mental Clutter
Mental clutter can trigger several mental illness and physical symptoms. It may cause us to react and to respond in an unconventional manner.
There are four main reasons for mental clutter.
1. Life stress
We are stresses by our jobs, the daily headlines or social expectation. The first reason for mental clutter comes from our everyday life.
2. Too many choices
Having to choose between too many options can be a great source of anxiety, indecision, paralysis, and dissatisfaction.Â
3. Too much clutter
Our home is filled with things that we don’t need.
Our mind is filled with data that doesn’t serve us.
Our time is filled with distractions and trivialities.
After a while, we start being too busy to declutter and start thinking negatively.
4. Negativity as reality
We react to negative events more easily, quickly and intensely than positive ones.
That is because we are “hardwired to overthink, worry, and view situations more negatively than they are in reality”.Â
Therefore, we accept negative thoughts as being reality, we see “threats as more threatening and challenges as more challenging.”
Habits To Help You Declutter Your Mind
Mindfulness is the art of staying present, of identifying your thoughts and decluttering.
It requires a lot of patience, practice and building specific habits.
1. Deep breaths
Our breathing habits is directly connected to our thinking habits. Whenever we feel anxious or overwhelmed, our breathing changes immediately.
However, we have the power to adjust our breathing to control our thoughts.
To regulate your breathing, several times a day, you can:
Adapt your posture. Sometimes, the way we stand or sit constricts the air in our lungs. It is imperative to sit up straight or to relax your body.
Pay attention to your breathing pattern throughout the day.Â
Use abdominal breathing techniques.
Practice slow and deep breathing. Deep breathing relaxes the body, improves general health, quiets the inner dialogue and forces you back in the present.
2. Meditation
Meditation, practiced for thousands of years and originated in ancient Buddhist, Hindu, and Chinese traditions, can be used as a tool for exercising and decluttering your mind.
Meditation reduces negative thinking, redirects to the present moment and improves creativity. To see the benefits of meditation, you must:
Practice meditation daily or in stressful times.
Find a quiet place and a adequate position to practice meditation.
Let your mind wander but always bring back the focus on deep breathing.
3. Mindset monitoring
Many people fall victim to their negative thoughts. They believe the negativity and think that they have no control over what they think.
however, our thoughts are not our identity and we have the power to challenge and reframe them. To do so:
Be aware of your thought pattern. You can witness them without judging or becoming them.
Give a name to your negative thoughts in order to seperate yourself from them.Â
Interrupt them before spiralling. You have the power to say no to the flood of thoughts coming your way. You can also use the rubber band technique to interrupt your thoughts.Â
Identify your triggers.Â
Distract yourself with positive thoughts and projects.
4. Mindset improvement
After decluttering your mind from negative thoughts, you need to fill your mind with new positive ones.
To integrate a new mindset:
Challenge the negative thoughts whenever they happen and replace them with positive ones.
Accept the negative situation that you are in instead of mentally fighting it. This will give you more control over your thoughts and the situation.
Take positive action that aligns with your values, goals and priorities.
Don’t stay too long in your head. Instead, set a timeframe where you can expand on your worries. Then, find something to distract yourself from your worries.
Review
Declutter Your Mind: How to Stop Worrying, Relieve Anxiety, and Eliminate Negative Thinking is a collection of several blog posts from S.J. Scott & Barrie Davenport.
It is written for people who want to become more productive, who have problems focusing and finding their peace of mind.
Declutter Your Mind: How to Stop Worrying, Relieve Anxiety, and Eliminate Negative Thinking frees you from addiction, distractions, overthinking, from negative and unproductive feelings.
It gives you tips to help you save time, build up your priorities and set the proper boundaries. The tools given are common knowledge and may not work for everyone. I find that the rubber band technique is painful for no reason, is not discreet and is not helpful when it comes to reducing negative thoughts.
However, there are different options that can work for you and your situation.
Furthermore, there is no reason to get discouraged because these techniques require huge commitment and have to be practiced quasi daily for you to see results.
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Our powerful brains are constantly processing all sorts of experiences and analyzing them in the form of thoughts. Thoughts form what we perceive to be reality.
We worry about our health, our jobs, our kids, the economy, our relationships, how we look, what other people think of us, terrorism, politics, pain from the past, and our unpredictable futures. Our thoughts about these things make us suffer and undermine the happiness we could experience right now if we didn’t have that constant voice in our heads stirring things up.
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