This one thing makes all the difference... 💭

It can feel like your mind is always on the go, rushing from one thought to the next all day long. It may even appear that your mind is using you, rather than the other way around. 

Our minds are very good at making us think that every thought needs to be acted on or dealt with, but that’s not the case. Most thoughts are just noise, repetitious commentary of previous thoughts, or just made-up scenarios that may or may not happen in the future.

See if you can observe just one of your thoughts, and then just let it go without thinking more about it, or acting on it. Just observe the thought and then let it go. 

Start with one thought and go from there. Here’s a nice little story which captures why that’s important...

An old man is walking down a beach and in the distance sees a little girl throwing rocks into the sea. As he walks towards her, he sees that the beach is littered with hundreds of thousands of starfish that have washed up during a storm. As the old man gets closer to the girl he sees that they aren’t rocks she’s throwing into the sea, but starfish. “Why are you doing that?” the man asks. “To get them back into the sea”, she replied. 

“But there are so many of them”, the old man continues, looking down the coastline at the enormity of the child’s task. “You’re not going to make much of a difference” he said.

The little girl picked up a starfish and threw it back into the ocean. 

Looking up at the man she replied “I made a difference to that one”.

Just start with one thought. See if you can observe it, and then let it go without doing anything with it.

Another thought will come along, and that’s ok.

By releasing one thought at a time, you’ll learn to give yourself the space to become a more present leader.