I would have never thought six months ago that I would be here with you on this page. I never really had an interest in writing blogs, or sharing about myself. I stayed away from Facebook for the longest time, even when my close friend had invited me before it got popular. My mind was tied. Tied up in old paradigms and tangled thought processes. I just couldn't see the point of all this 'sharing'. My desire, just like my passion, had already fallen by the wayside and was staring up at me, crusty and festering.
But it wasn't only indifference on my part. So much of my life had grown around putting the things that I wanted on the back burner that it became a slow, incepid and deadly combination. That was until I heard Bob Proctor speaking about paradigms. He has a program/seminar called Paradigm Shift and I attended online in July of 2018. It is a program intended to help you in identifying your paradigms and shifting your thinking so that you can make a difference in your own life. What were these things that were holding me back from becoming the person that, in the back of my mind, I was.
This man said two things to me that rattled my brain. The first was that my paradigm controlling my results. I'm not going to go into talking about paradigms since there is no way I can do it enough justice. But trust me when I say that what he said was true. The second thing that he said was that my paradigms controlled much of my habitual behavior including my use of time. The real kicker came when he mentioned that you don't manage time you manage activity. MIND. BLOWN.
After that I could trace a direct path to every time that I lamented about not managing my time. If I could only manage my time better, make more task lists, follow through on things that need to get done, then, I would be living the lifestyle that I always wanted. I never thought about 'managing activity' at all. How could I have been so blind. Just like he said we are all given the same amount of time every day and the same as every other human being. What we choose to do in and with that time, and the activities that we pursue are more important that the actual time.
I say that to say this. My mind was bound when it came to time, and it was locked up when it came to activity. It wasn't until that moment that my mind became free. If you feel bound by fate, crushed by life, and tied by your own powerlessness you only need to do one thing. There was a song by En Vogue released in 1992 called Free Your Mind. It came to mind as I was writing this blog post. If you want anything in this life ... first Free Your Mind.