Create Your Day
For many people the concept that you can “Create Your Day” is strange or incomprehensible. That is because for most people the events of the day just happen, and they react to whatever the day brings. But that should not be, and need not be the way you live your life.
As outlined in the chapter on self talk, we have an incredible power to speak into our lives and thereby affect the reality around us.
There are three keys to creating your day:
1. Expectation
Expect good things to happen to you today. Expect positive encounters. Expect God to bless you. Expect to have creative ideas, to be happy and cheerful and to achieve great things. Just starting your day with these expectations will change your attitude and the way you see and experience life.
2. Meditation
This has nothing (necessarily) to do with religion or your spirit. The word meditation simply means “continued or extended thought; reflection; contemplation”.
If you can discipline yourself to start your day or your work day with five minutes of quiet thinking about the day ahead, you will make a huge positive impact on what happens in your day.
When I arrive at work, the first thing I do is spend at least five minutes meditating about the day ahead.
There is probably no other daily activity in the world that will give you a greater return on your time than investing this five minutes!
3. Eradication
Eradicate and do not allow negative thoughts or negative events into your day. Of course you cannot control all of the events of your day. However, in areas you do have control over, don’t allow bad situations to arise. For example avoid arguments and conflicts, do not spend time with people who bring you down, read and listen to and watch things that are going to motivate you and encourage you and not bring you down.
You and no-one else owns your day. You get to choose 99% of what happens to you today. If you are in a situation that requires you to spend your day doing something that de-motivates you and brings you down – YOU must do something about it.
In areas you don’t have control over, choose to look at the positives in any challenging situation. Try to turn it around to bring good out of it.
With discipline and practice we can take full control of our thoughts.
We can eradicate negative thoughts and by doing that, create a day that becomes more positive, creative, loving, effective, and therefore more life-changing.
One of the main attributes of our humanity is that we can change who we are, what we feel, what we believe and what we achieve. The start of that process is changing our thoughts and attitudes from negative ones that suck life out of us to positive ones that lift us up and recharge us.
Once you start directing your day from the start and taking control of how you think about yourself and what is happening to you, you will find you can actually shape your day and even create your day. Wouldn’t that be a wonderful way to live!
Action Step 14:
Write down your five minute meditation and starting tomorrow; begin to create your own day.