Your Brain is Always Watching
How training your brain is more impactful than you realize.
Our brain is always watching.
When you resolve to do something, whether or not you actually follow through can have a profound impact both now and in the future. You see, I believe that your brain is always watching. You train your brain like you train any muscle in your body to grow stronger and to function more effectively. But you have to be willing to commit to getting those results.
If you stick to what you set out to do — lose weight, write a book, run a marathon — your brain will begin to reprogram itself. But when you don’t follow through, the opposite occurs. Your brain subtly begins to regress or stay stagnant. It becomes easier to make and believe excuses or limiting beliefs, or cave to outside influences. Here are a few ways to overcome allowing your own mind to hold you back from being your truest and most authentic self.
Don’t be afraid of change.
Being fearful of change is perfectly normal, and we all deal with it at some point in our lives. Sudden change, in particular, can throw us out of our comfort zone and leave us scrambling to pick up the pieces. We become accustomed to a certain level of comfort, and we don’t expect to have to adapt to something different. But sometimes that is because we are not looking at the bigger picture of why change happens in the first place. When you carefully examine the “why” factor, you may be surprised to see that the change was needed in order for you to grow, to rid yourself of toxic people, or to even deal with things from your past among other things.
Look at “what is” and not “what ifs”.
It is easy for us to get caught up in all the possibilities of an outcome, and overthink ourselves into anxiety. But truthfully, no amount of worry will bring you clarity, if anything it will make it more difficult for you to be objective about what reality is in the present. “Maybe this person will change.” “Maybe my partner will actually spend time with me.” “Maybe I’ll get that job I wanted.” The best plan of attack is to take it one step at a time, but also not to sit on your hands with no reasonable expectations and standards. The more you focus on “what is”, the less your brain will find itself hibernating and regressing due to limiting beliefs.
Be willing to ask for help and communicate your needs.
We can have such a strong desire for results, but not know how to accomplish them efficiently because we are lacking guidance or the tools necessary to achieve those results. There is this falsehood looming around that equates asking for help to weakness when in reality, it takes someone with strength and humility to reach out for help when they are at their lowest point. Not to mention, we can’t expect people to help us if they don’t know what we are struggling with.
So the question that we have to ask ourselves is, will we continue to train our minds to inevitably keep us stuck on our long and short-term goals, especially when they become challenging? Or will we rise to the occasion and grab life by the horns so that we can embrace change, breed confidence, and live more fulfilled? As always, the choice is ours.
