Over the past month you have been encouraged to take some “stillness time” and bravely examine your true feelings. We talked about how you can control only your actions and reactions and not how others act or react. That is the ultimate control.  It’s not about what happens in the world around you, it’s about how you interpret it. And you do have total control over that. When you exercise your power to control your own interpretation, then you can detach from the outcome and stay flexible and relaxed. The outcome no longer has the power to throw you off course. When you’re trying to control the outcome, you’re at the whim of everyone and everything around you to make you feel success or failure, happiness or sadness, fulfillment or devastation.  So you become extremely attached to keeping things just the way you think they should be.

This is similar to “organizational entropy”, the phenomenon that takes place when an organization loses the ability to grow because they become too attached, fixed and rigid. You experience that same degeneration when you become focused on results.  All of your energy is spent defending how things are instead of discovering how things could be.I hope this month’s focus on reframing your mind to a more abundant mindset has effectively illustrated how important the mind is to your actions and reactions.

With warmth and joy,

Cara

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