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Haven’t you got crap in your head? Undoubtedly you have – we all have. But if you’re paying attention to all that crap, you are only creating the crap that you have in your life. You are what you’re thinking. Sadly, it isn’t just the thoughts that you know you’re thinking that create your life, it’s a little more subtle than that. Actually, more than anything else, you are what you think subconsciously. Your subconscious mind runs – or ruins – your life. All of your behavior, everything that you do, every single reactions and every single interaction with others – with people who are close to you, friends, colleagues and even strangers – are all dictated by your subconscious. And the gynormous problem is that, because of the way your subconscious mind is wired, it all just happens automatically.

But you’ve got an even bigger problem. Your subconscious mind is crammed with crap. It’s crap because it has nothing to do with who you are or what you should be doing today. The crap is a hangover from your childhood, when you were young and impressionable – from what we all know as our formative years. And, even though all your behaviour happens subconsciously, every so often you actually know that this crap is ruining your life. at times you might feel down, suffer from stress, negative or depressed. You might think that you’re useless, uneasy or inadequate. At certain times, or in some situations, you can feel anxious or nervous. Maybe you feel that you’re lacking self-confidence or that you’re being dragged down by low self-esteem. But this is just crap borne out of crap! This is the crap that has your life on hold – and you’re letting it happen by paying attention, whether you’re aware of it or not, to the crap that’s buried in your head.

This crap won’t go away – but you can choose whether or not you pay attention to it – either consciously or, in actual fact, subconsciously. That’s what personal development or self improvement is all about. Because, as a grown up, you can actually take charge of your mind – decide, in each moment, what you’re going to pay your attention to. So you’ve got to choose to pay attention to reality instead of letting your subconscious mind just drag you by the nose into ever decreasing circles of crap. The only thing that’s really real in your life – the here and now. This is where you could actually be the best you if you could just stop paying attention to all that crap. Pay attention to now – to what you see, feel, hear, smell and taste. This focus will drag your subconscious (sometimes kicking and screaming) away from its hard-wired obsession with all the unreal crap. As things stand, you don’t really experience anything real because you see it through the fog of crap. You’ve got to clear the fog – it won’t clear on its own because it’s your personal fog. Clear the fog by realizing that it isn’t there at all! There is no fog.

All that’s real is what is here just now. So train yourself to pay attention to your five senses – make sense of now instead of nonsense. What a difference it will make.

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