For the last couple of weeks, I am traveling and not having a routine and schedule distracts me from having a more organized mind.
But wait a minute, the internal organization of my mind should be able to lead to an external organization. So that is how I started making a research on how I can better keep my mind more organized. So if you share some similar thoughts, that your life is not very well organized, start making a change from within!
Many of you might have a scuttered way of thinking. And then you think that your life is too be busy to get things organized.
If you want to have a certain level of well-being, you need to help yourself and your mind attain a better sense of order, a more calm, positive, simple, wise and strategic perspective.
Start with Planning
Planning is the answer when you need productivity. Us humans are unique creatures, as we have the part of the brain, the prefrontal cortex that allows us to plan. We therefore need to use it in order to reach a more purposeful life!
The house Metaphor
If you thought that your mind is your house, and every thought you made represents a room in it, then what rooms do you think that it would have? There can be many categories in that, but the main ones would include:
- MEMORIES
When we talk about memories, these are our thoughts about the past. Most of us think that our thoughts about the past are actually the past. Nevertheless, it’s very often that the memories of different people are different for the very same event. That means that the thoughts that we have now, and our interpretation of past events create our memories. When subconscious thoughts about the past do not serve you because you repeat them from childhood, then you need to clear them.
2. APPRECIATION
This room includes all the things you love and appreciate in your life. When you think of those, the bring out all the gratitude and loving emotion in you.
3. JUDGEMENTS
This part refers to all the judgements we have either about ourselves or other people. Even though we do not want to think about ourselves as judgmental people, we automatically and subconsciously do! These are our opinions that are optional very often are not serving us.
4. SELF-TALK
This is like a monkey mind in our head that refers to all the unsettled, restless, or confused thoughts that are our the inner critic. It can be negative or positive self-talk and includes all the negative thoughts that cause all kinds of unpleasant emotions and also all the positive ones, what you say to yourself to keep you inspired and positive.
5. FUTURE
That one of the most important rooms of our brain that we need to invest in. It includes all the plans that we make about the future. We therefore need to increase it and have a purposeful plans and intentions. Imagine may of us never make plans about the future, so how can we find a purpose in our life?
Among the average of 50.000 thoughts we have per day, we would better take the time to categorize, organize and separate our thoughts. You will ask me now, how can I do that? Think it as if you go and clean your house, find what is useful, serves you and you need to keep, and what does not help or serve you and you don’t want to keep space for any more.
Ask yourself:
Where goes what?
What do I want to keep?
Do I want to keep these ideas, or bring new ones?
Do I want to stick with unconscious thoughts, or work consciously on them?
Have you thought what happens when you leave your brain without any direction at all?
Where is it most efficient?
You have a limited space is your brain and if you think as will that you have a limited amount of mind power , what do you want to use your space and power for?
Most of us recycle thoughts and recreate the same life, as we stay focused on things that do not serve us to make us move forward. The opposite can happen when we bring new thoughts with purpose and care.
Still, I can try to do that, but it is not easy! What should I do to achieve it?
There are two ways that I can suggest:
– First, you need to ask questions and then let your mind look for the answer for you.
Our brain doesn’t like it to leave any question unanswered, it will do its best to figure it out.
What do I need to do to know?
Try to make questions finding the ways, the means, the reason of doing something, questions like:
How can I do this?
What do I need?
Why am I doing this?
If I need to make a decision, what does it need to be?
And the questions of course should not be given in a negative context, for example why is my life a mess!
= Then, just expect your brain to find the answers and the solutions.
Enjoy the part where you clean up and organize your mind that leads you to a deliberate life.