Hey, this is Anne with your Coaching on the Go.

Do you ever have one of those days…it sucks and everything seems to be going wrong, and the more you focus on that, the more it happens, the more things go wrong?

Hey, that’s your Reticular Activating System at work.

Congratulations!

This is the type of day where you really get to dig in and be disciplined.

It’s the type of day where you start to make a difference in your life.

It’s kind of like when I start running (and I haven’t been in a while).

It’s hard that first time.

It’s hard that second time.

It hurts the first three weeks, and especially if I don’t keep going every day.

If I let it go for a couple of days and then restart, then let it go a couple of days and restart, that’s the hardest.

So here you are having a tough day.

What I’m asking you to do is shift it.

Decide not to think about your bad day.

Instead, decide to stop the momentum and start thinking about what you’ve already accomplished in your future.

Go ahead into your future vision and decide to feel it and enjoy it and add to it.

Today’s activity for you is to catch yourself throughout the day thinking about things you don’t want and stop yourself on the dime and just say, “Okay, now what?”

“What do I want to think about that I do want?”

If you are used to wallowing, it’s going to take you a while to get out of this.

You are going to catch yourself over and over and over if you are used to letting everybody know how real what you’re experiencing is, how terrible it is, or how tough it was, and start to notice how many people spend time complaining around you or how many times you go to make a comment that isn’t positive.

This is a day of exploration and exercise.

Notice what your outer and inner environments are.

Are they positive?

Are they focused on what you want?

Are they focused on what you don’t like?

Are they full of remarks or criticism about what other people are doing, or what you’re doing, or what your partner is doing?

Take a note today and stick to this.

There are two things you have going:

One, notice the energy around what you say and what people around you say.

Is your environment polluted?

Two, stop it on a dime and shift it.

Stop it and shift it.

Make a decision and decide that you are going to think about something you love, something that would bring you great joy, that takes you towards your future.

Okay.

This is the work around mindset.

It’s the work around exercising control about what you choose to think because it makes a big difference.

We will continue this auditing process to include other things before the end of the week.

We’re going to continue it to have you consider who you spend time around, if there is a litany of complaining.

I am asking you because your Vision and your future depend on it, to start making conscious choices about who you spend time around, to make sure that those people and the conversations that you are having are conducive to the direction that you want to go in.

Have a beautiful day.