In today’s episode I share a simple way to reduce patterns of self-sabotage that can derail your week. These short weekly videos will be available each Monday morning. They will inspire you to move from thought to action and discuss how to implement Dr.Charryse’s patented 5-on-5 System of Success. If you’re looking for a powerful way to start your week, watch this, click save, and come back for more!
When you delay things that bring you joy consistently, that creates a level of dull and down. Every day throughout the rest of this week, I want you to engage in a specific and intentional activity that brings you joy. Stop waiting for Friday, think about what you want to experience and bring it into your day.
Hi, I'm Doctor Charryse Johnson and welcome to Monday Motivation. Somewhere along the way, we've been led to believe that if we delay the things that bring us joy and wait until the end of a certain set point to engage in that joy, then we're better off for it. That's not true. Our focus of today. Stop waiting for Friday. When you delay things that bring you joy consistently, that creates a level of dull and down and an almost sad or low state. Add that to any form of seasonal affect, depression, or just difficult moments in life, and it sets you up to self sabotage.
What's happening in your brain when that's going on, you are depleting yourself of any form of dopamine. So here's the counterbalance. If you're working through the 515 system of success which you can find in the mindset matters journal that I created, one of the things that I specifically ask you to consider is, what do you want to experience? Think about that question. What do you want to experience today? Maybe answer it below. Maybe consider to ask yourself that question every single day. And it's not what you want to do.
It's not what you need to get done. It's not what needs to be accomplished. It has nothing to do with productivity, but everything to do with how you want to experience life. And are you experiencing life in ways where you don't have to escape? Because here's why that's important. When we are overly delaying gratification, we look for it in little bites and little nibbles. And although I use those words in funny ways, part of where we bite and nibble is in what we pick up in our mouth. We start looking for things outside of ourselves to do an insult job.
So here's what I want you to consider. Every day throughout the rest of this week, I want you to set aside ten minutes, ten to 15 minutes. And I want you to engage in a specific and intentional activity that brings you joy and that is outside of what you would normally do. As you accumulate that time over the week, by the time you get to, say, Wednesday or Thursday, I want you to notice how you start looking forward to that moment. And if it allows you to disconnect from other things that you've been doing that are time wasters because you're trying to balance your regulation in ways that are unhelpful.
Stop waiting for Friday, think about what you want to experience and bring it into your day every day and watch your weekend. Revolutionize.
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