mental habits that will increase your daily
energy level.
Let’s say you wake up thinking about
a business meeting you have. You are
going to be responsible for making a
major presentation and you don’t feel 100
percent prepared. Your internal sky may be
experiencing an internal thunderstorm of
emotions that include being apprehensive
and frustrated. If you wake up and you realize
it’s a three-day weekend and you still have two
more days off, your internal sky may be feeling
pretty good, sunny at that moment, and you
may lean over and press the snooze button.
Our thoughts control our lives. However,
sometimes we don’t check the weather forecast
to see what we are thinking or feeling and wind
up living what I call, “the hamster on the wheel
effect.” We keep running and running because
we just have so much to do. Are we running
because there is something to run to or are we
running because there is something to run from?
For many years I was doing what most do,
juggling my career, family, and whatever
friendships I could keep as I didn’t have much
time left over to give. The week was filled with
work appointments, managing staff, hitting
goals, managing boards, and some days were
fifteen plus hour work days, keeping track of
who is picking up the kids, taking them to their
multitude of activities, cooking, cleaning, food
shopping, doctor’s visits, and so on and so forth.
The same holds true with what thoughts
we are allowing in our minds each and
every day. Your mind is your internal sky
and this sky you actually have control over.
Paying attention to the self-talk that comes
into your mind from the minute you wake
up, and taking the time to turn anything
negative to positive, will create healthy
Fast forward to my kids being thirteen and
sixteen. They decided to break out the old
home videos. Right away they both point out
the common theme—mom sitting there with
her laptop on her lap and Daddy videoing.
Now that doesn’t sound so bad because I had
to finish work. I was an Executive Director for a
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