Aspire Magazine: Inspiration for a Woman's Soul.(TM) April/May 2020 Aspire Magazine FULL Issue | Page 57
t’s 6:00 am and your alarm goes off…
where does your mind go?!? You get out
of bed, brush your teeth and put on the
coffee…what are you thinking about? You
get yourself ready for the day, what are you
listening to, watching or doing right now?
And does this even make a difference?
It absolutely does.
Your thoughts create your feelings. Your
feelings drive your actions, inactions or
reactions and that response creates your
results.
When you begin your day, are you focused on
where you are going or are you focused on
where you’ve been? When you are brushing
your teeth, making coffee and getting ready,
are you focused on the day or week ahead
or are you focused on the stress, fear and
experiences from your past?
When you get in your car, buckle in and put
the car in drive…are you focused on the
Windshield or the Rearview Mirror?
Our thoughts can either move us forward
or backward. They can make us happy or
sad. They can make us feel confident or
anxious…the choice is up to you.
Whether you like it or not, YOU are in the
Driver’s Seat of your life (now we know that
some of you have Backseat Drivers in your
life and we will address that in another blog,
but for now, know that YOU ultimately drive
your life).
Are you focused on your Windshield (where
you want to go, what you want to do or how
you want to feel) or the Rearview Mirror
(your past, where you have been, your
experiences, memories, what you have
done, how you felt, things you failed at,
accomplishments, education)?
The Windshield represents your future and
is for you to create. It is large, limitless and
expansive. The Rearview Mirror represents
your past. You can’t change it any more
than you can unscramble eggs. It is small
for a reason and reflective for a reason. It’s
small because it isn’t as important as where
you are going. It’s reflective so that you can
look back and bring the lessons, education,
accomplishments, memories, feelings and
learned behavior forward to the present.
If you get in your car, buckle in, put the car in
drive…and then focus on the Rearview Mirror
while trying to move forward, how well do you
think you’ll get to where you are going?
It’s the same way on the Road of Life. We
talked about the Rules of the Road above
(your thoughts create your feelings, your
feelings drive your actions, inactions or
reactions…and that produces your results). If
you keep hitting Roadblock after Roadblock
because you are focused on your Rearview
Mirror more than your Windshield, we can
help you turn your Roadblocks into your
Roadmap by doing the exercises below.
The first exercise is the Driver’s Daily Checklist
and the second exercise shows you how to
Troubleshoot your Rearview Mirror.
The Driver’s Daily Checklist allows you the
time to dump the contents of the Rearview
Mirror, focus on where you want to go, what
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