Here is a good question for you to think about: If someone was going to write a report about the thoughts going through your mind, what would they say?

I ask you this because it is the number one question that you need to be asking yourself on a regular basis if you are going to experience freedom in your life. What are your thoughts all about?

I have found that the thoughts people entertain are the root causes of stress and what prevents them from experiencing all the freedom that they should have and deserve. People simply spend their time thinking about the wrong things. Here is what I mean:

You can either be thinking about the past, present or future.

Most people spend close to half their time or more reliving the past in an unhealthy way. They replay, consciously or subconsciously, all the screw-ups, mistakes, bad relationships and times they failed.

The other half of the time, people mentally live in the future by worrying about what could happen. They start stressing out and freaking out over the future – events that haven’t even happened yet!

This combination of reliving the past and worrying about the future leaves them very little time to be actively engaged in present moment or what they are doing at that particular moment.

I encourage you to spend, literally 1% of your time thinking about the past.
There are two healthy way to deal with the past:

1 – Extract the lessons that you learned so that you can move on with your life.
2 – Replay your successes and not your failures.

When it comes to thinking about the future, I would encourage you to spend 20% of your time there….and not freaking out about the unknown future. Think about the future by visualizing your desired future; mental pictures of what you want to have financially, professionally, emotionally etc.

If you spent 1% of your time reliving past successes, 20% of your time visualizing your desired future, that leaves you tons of time to be fully engaged in the present moment. When you think your thoughts about the past, present, and future in this manner, you remove stress from your life and your results go up dramatically. Give it try, have fun with it and I’m really looking forward to hearing some of your reports.

Be Free!

Roger Seip
Instructor