29. Framing

Give your emotions and actions a context. If you don’t, your own lizard mind will still create a context for your emotions and actions, but not the frame your want.

Your lizard mind sees things you should (and need) do as the dangers and threats. It creates stories to make you feel better, to back up, and to hide in the corner. It wants you to be safe.

The anger, the frustration, the fear, the anxiety — they are the emotions your lizard mind creates to mask you up. So you don’t need to face the truth. So you don’t need to bare any responsibility.

But, you’re here to thrive, right? You don’t want your lizard brain to take control.

Frame your mind every morning. Create the context to channel your emotions and actions in the right direction.

Tell yourself you’re luck so you will appreciate both good and bad that come to you. Learn that you’re the one who take control of your own outcome. Understand that success, mistakes, and failures are not the destination, they are the progress.

Frame your mind physically and emotionally, so you can perform at peak state every day.