Ashley Molitor

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Daily Practice: Brain Dump!

6,000 thoughts run through your mind on the daily!

(It used to be 60,000 but new studies show 6,000.)

80% of them are likely negative.

And MANY of them are subconscious.

How can you become aware of what is going on up there when there are SO MANY thoughts?!

Well, here is my FAVORITE thing to do EVERY DAMN DAY!

Brain Dump! Sit down. Ask yourself, WHAT IS GOING ON?! Write. Don’t edit yourself. Just let it go!

Pro Tip: If you have something specific you want to write about, prompt yourself with questions: Why am I feeling anxious/stressed/angry? What am I currently thinking that has me wanting to punch my hubs in the face?

Look at all of it & decide, what are FACTS & what are thoughts.

Pro Tip: Facts are things that happened, words that someone said, stuff going on in the world, something everyone can agree IS, indeed a fact. The facts (aka circumstances) are shit you can’t change/control.

But the thoughts, those are optional. Sometimes our thoughts serve us & sometimes they don’t.

FYI: A lot of the time, we think our feelings are coming from the fact of the situation or the circumstance but it is really our thought about it!

Pick a few of your thoughts & ask yourself “how is this thought making me feel? When I am feeling that way because I am thinking that, how do I show up? For my biz? For my fam? For me?!”

That is when you can start to see the result those thoughts are creating for you.

The best part, you get to decide if you want to keep those thoughts or not.

Get curious! How else can you look at it? Is there a way that the thought MAY NOT even be true? Does it serve you to think it? Or not think it?

Last but not least, DO NOT JUDGE YOURSELF FOR YOUR THOUGHTS! You are learning to be more aware! Just be curious & compassionate.

Like I said, most of them aren’t conscious thoughts & they lean more towards the negative than the positive! BUT that means you are just a human with a human brain! There is NOTHING wrong with you!

The goal here is to:
-become more aware.
-start thinking more on purpose, less by default.
-create more of the results you WANT!