Eager minds adapting (to) leadership

This bog will be a bank of ideas on how a person can adapt their life to live as wholehearted as they can. It’ll be about my personal experience re-wiring my neurons to activate a different neural pathway to create a better internal working model.

It’s not quite manifesting, which I believe is mostly snake oil. But it’s about re-wiring your brain to limit negative self talk, achieve your goals, and live your life how exactly you want to. This is something I’ve been working on for a long time. First, I started with mindfulness, a practice that I began after watching a show on Netflix. In this show, unfortunately I forget which one it was, there was a Buddhist monk sharing how he incorporated mindfulness into his own life. He was talking about his youth, living in the shadows of the Himalayan Mountains sharing about his anxiety sudden weather-related catastrophes. It was really interesting to me and ever since I’ve set out to try to observe my mind instead of subjected to it.

This journey has led me to achievement journaling. This process is something I do every night; I have a small paper-bound journal where I write down (with my favourite pencil) the accomplishments of the day. The trick here is to widen your conception of what an accomplishment can be. Trust me, I’m not writing down the fact that I’ve run marathons or scaled mountains. It’s more like, “ I paid attention to my breathing”, or “I enjoyed time spent with K (my kiddo)”. Things like that. But here’s the kicker, after writing three accomplishments of the previous day, I also write down three accomplishments that I would like to do for the next day. AND I have started speaking out these potential accomplishments every night.

I think this new development has really started to have an effect on my life. It’s almost like mirror work, where you look into the mirror and verbalize certain things. What I want it to do is to help me pay more attention to my potential goals for the next day, and what I find myself doing is that each night when I am ready to sit down and write the goals that I am working on are at the forefront of my mind. This way I keep writing down the same goals I have (and verbalize them!). Then something else that I’ve noticed is that now in the daytime I can remember what my prior goals were and then keep them in mind for the day.

I feel that this has been huge, mainly because most of my goals are me actively trying to re-wire my neural pathways. This has taken about ten months, so it’s a slow process but I’m started to find some success in it! I’m so please with myself. So stay tuned for more techniques to adapt our mind towards leadership! Cheers.