Mindful Tactics

Your attention is a spotlight. Where your attention goes is where you will follow. We get to choose where that attention goes. We can decide where to focus and where not to. If your attention is creating chaos, it's important to recognize that is what is being chosen and choose differently. A few seconds of realization and active choosing of attention can change everything.

Allow it to wash over you and it will. Allow it to become your identity and it will. It is our choice. Do you want it to only hurt and distress or does allowing it to also teach you something you can be proud of make just as much sense? Do you want to be the hero or the victim?

What is the fear from change that we actually fear? Is it just the change? Is it the possibility of failure? Is it the unknown? When i ask myself this i think well i have changed before. I think well i have failed before. I also think well i have been countless places and situations in my life i did not know where i was at. It is time to let that fear of what is unknown stop me from obtaining. It will definitely not stop me from trying any longer.

Self esteem can be broken down to two categories. The first being self efficacy. This is our ability to think of ourselves as competent. The second is self respect. The ability to be able to see ourselves being able to be loved by someone else and do the things we feel we should do.