The First Thought Of The Day

Haha...my first thought of the day is "what time is it, can I go back to bed?"

Of course I can b/c I work from home!

Although that's partially a joke, that really is what I usually think when I first get up. So it's kind of half gratitude (being able to work from home) and half wanting to fall back to sleep.

I usually get up anyway though b/c I like to work early in the morning.

I agree though, the first thought is VERY powerful.

What's more powerful for me is the first THING I do in the morning. I've recently started to do 1 piece of work done before I do anything else - including coffee & breakfast.

It helps you keep that motivation for the rest of the day.

My first thought is getting myself and children out the door before 7am. And in the process to have a good attitude.

Delta

I have a specific memory which I marked in my journal of waking up one morning a couple years back and suddenly realizing that I'd moved through the whole 'morning routine' in a daze of mechanical repetition. And while staring in the mirror, brushing my teeth, it hit me that I was carrying a vast unseen load on my shoulders, and that the burden was comprised entirely of the undetected thoughts going on in my mind at that very moment about what had to be done that day, the responsibilities that had to be fulfilled, the past, the future, anxieties over the current events - there was a dizzying dramatic theatric performance having its way in my brain and when I saw it, I was stunned.

Had I not already been engaged in a disciplined practice of mental training in Concentration, Focus, and Willpower for months preceding that moment, I may never have perceived 'The Show', and not understood what was making getting up in the morning such an anxious affair.

Once you see it, and get over the shock of realizing that there's a thought-spewing machine in your head over which you have little to no control, then things change.

The most advanced forms and levels of mental training at some point show the trainee that, for the most part, 'THINKING' is an unnecessary habit that drains one's energy and keeps one either blind to present reality or utterly distracted from greater possibility.

What one learns over the course of advancement is to keep the Mind quiet, and Architect one's thoughts on purpose, so that thoughts become a servant, and not a ruling taskmaster continually barking orders and claiming it has answers that it simply does not.

"What was I just dreaming" - because controlling dreams are fun.