You Choose Your Approach All the Time
You’re the only one in your head, heart, and soul.
Certain things are true for everyone. Every single person on Planet Earth, in one form or another, wakes up, has a day, goes to sleep, and repeats the next day. Yes, some people sleep for only short spans while others get hours. Some people’s “day” is other people’s “night.” Yet everybody has a time when they are awake, not asleep, and moving through their life.
This is where variations begin. Some people live almost completely by rote, routine, and habit. They get up, go through the day to a greater or lesser degree like a zombie, go through the motions, then go back to sleep. Some people live partially by rote, routine, and habit. They have moments during a given wake cycle where they’re consciously aware for a time, but otherwise go through the motions, then go back to sleep.
Every single cycle, you choose anew what that will look like. Every “day” cycle, you decide how much subconscious rote, routine, and habit drives you.
There are times when living subconsciously is utterly helpful. Also, some habits are habits because if you needed to give them conscious attention, you’d waste a lot of time, energy, and potential.
However, living completely by rote, routine, and habit is disempowering and lessens your life experience. This is where your approach comes into play.
Angles, paths, action, and inaction
Rote, routine, and habit allow you to lessen necessary thought-energy and conscious attention to things that, frankly, don’t need it. For example, do you really need to consciously think about how you wash yourself in the shower, brush your teeth, make your bed, put clothes on, and the like? No. These can be subconscious actions because they are both simple and repeatable.
The problem starts when your rote, routine, and habitual acts dominate your life. When you just go through the motions, unaware, subconsciously, you miss out on both simple and complex things. The world fades into a background that moves past you virtually unnoticed.
This, right here, is why all those who have an issue with being “woke” makes no sense. Isn’t it better to be awake and aware than asleep and missing out? Because that’s the crux of it.
Whenever you start your “day” cycle, you choose how consciously or subconsciously you approach that. This is where angles, paths, action, and inaction come into play. Every day, you choose how to do any given thing. Or rather, you CAN choose, but that is also a choice.
Approach is how you walk a path, the angle you take to a given outcome, and action vs inaction on your part. Approach is also where you determine if, consciously, you’re moving via positivity or negativity.
You choose your approach
You have utter, complete, and total control over your thoughts, feelings, intentions, actions, and approach. To gain this, all you need to do is question, right here and now,
- What am I thinking?
- What am I feeling?
- How am I feeling?
- What are my intentions?
- Is my approach positive, negative, or neutral?
- What am I doing?
Asked in the present, right here and now, you gain insight about who, what, where, how, and why you are. If you don’t like the answer to any of the above questions, you can use active, conscious awareness – mindfulness – to choose to change it.
You, and you alone, have that power. That’s because you’re the only one in your head, heart, and soul. That means you hold all the cards and have all the power.
Approach matters because when you take a negative approach, you set yourself up for an undesirable outcome. You’ve done it before. That thing was happening – the trip you weren’t enthusiastic to take, the person you prefer not to spend time with, the meeting you would rather not attend – and sure enough, it sucked.
Because this is a choice, you can find and employ positivity to determine the angle of your approach, the path, and so on.
However…
You will get it wrong
Yes, even with a positive approach, shit will go wrong. That’s because outside of your head, heart, and soul, you have almost zero control. Other people, places, things, tangible and intangible matters not directly within you aren’t under your control.
On the one hand, this can be utterly frustrating. On the other hand, it means you can focus more on what you do control. That’s empowering. It allows you potential and opportunities to make choices and decisions that determine who, what, where, how, and why you are.
There’s a time and place for rote, routine, and habit. Likewise, there’s a time and place for active conscious awareness. You alone determine when that is and how you employ that. Or not.
When you get it wrong, don’t hide from it. Take responsibility and be accountable for it. Then, let it go and make a new choice/decision. Because consciously or subconsciously, you can, will, and do choose your approach all the time. That might seem insignificant in the grand scheme of things, but in truth, it’s everything.
How are you approaching your life, and what choices and decisions will you make today?
Recognizing how you choose your approach every day isn’t hard
It’s all about practicing mindfulness of your thoughts, feelings, intentions, and approach to direct your actions.
When you recognize and acknowledge that you are choosing your approach all the time, you can employ active conscious awareness – mindfulness – to take control over how you are approaching things, be it positively, negatively, or neutrally. Knowing that you can apply active conscious awareness for your approach, you can choose and decide all the time, at any given time, who, what, where, how, and why your life is.
This empowers you, and your empowerment can empower others around you.
Consciously choosing your approach to life towards positivity or negativity – from the vast cylinder that exists between them – shifts life in a way that opens greater dialogue. From that broader dialogue, you can recognize, explore, and share where you are between the extremes and how that impacts you here and now.
Choosing thoughts, feelings, actions, and intentions for yourself employs an approach and attitude of positivity for realizing amazing potential and possibilities for your life.
The better aware you are of yourself here and now, the better you can choose and decide what, how, and why your life experiences will be. When you empower yourself, that can spread to those around you for their empowerment.
Thank you for coming along on this journey.
This is the five-hundred-and-eighty-fifth (585) entry of my Positivity series. I hope that these weekly messages might help spread positive energies for everyone. Feel free to share, reblog, and spread the positivity.
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