Right now! What are you thinking about?

Right Now!
What are you thinking about?

In this episode, I make the point we have control over what we think about. The decision is ours.
What we decide to think about determines our Well-Being.
We need to really think about, what we think about.

Here is the video

I remember being a little kid riding in the car with my parents and three brothers on one of our 40-minute trips to Santa Cruz or Mountain View.
Then, out of the blue, my big brother would ask me, "Peter, right now! What are you thinking about?

It used to startle the crap out of me.
It then became a game we’d play with each other.

Ever since then, I’ve learned to be on guard about my thoughts.
To this day, I always ask myself, “What are you thinking about?”

I think what we decide to spend our time thinking about determines our whole day, our whole mood, our Well-Being. The decision is ours.

In simple terms, at any point, we have two baskets of thoughts from which to choose.
A positive basket of thoughts and a negative basket of thoughts.
Whichever basket we choose from is where we go.

When a bad thought arises from my negative basket, I try hard to be aware of it, sit with it, accept it, let it go, and then pull a thought from my positive basket.

For Well-Being - we need to really think about – what we think about.

Thank you,
Peter

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