The Mind Management: Lifestyle

Face life on your own terms and define what happiness means to you as a unique individual. My father often told me to “save yourself little mother, you’re doing great!”   Author Josh Peck notes that external things like marriage, money, success, drugs, sex, or food will not fill up the “hole in the soul”.  True, lasting peace and comfort come from doing the inner work. This is well said, he also notes that he could not use external things to medicate things deep within himself.

Mind management is a lifestyle; something we work on and do every day. We all experience extreme pressures, but doing inner work helps us reconstruct what continue to happen to us externally.  

Josh notes that the inner work includes self-regulation and being aware of how we show up and why.

How are we treating ourselves, & the people in our life?

What is our mental state right now?

 Does something need to change?

What have we maybe missed that we need?

What steps do we need to take to do and be better?

This kind of mind management activates a natural resilience & will help you overcome challenges and live your best lives.  Be honest with yourself & work on solutions!

At the same time, it is also important to give ourselves grace. If you battled with something in the past, even yesterday it’s okay. If you are battling with something right now, you are only human! Sometimes the best you can do in the moment is cope and stay alive—you may not have had the mental health knowledge or skills yet to overcome, just try again now and tomorrow.   We are all learning to do better—we are all on our own unique journeys.