Blog Post: Off-Road Thinking
By CPMAstudio In Insight
The start of a new decade brings the enthusiasm to reach our big, bold goals. We find ourselves motivated to cast away old habits that no longer serve us and reach for new results in our lives with great enthusiasm.
However, in order to make measurable progress, we must be careful not to believe everything we think.
Here’s the thing: old thought patterns close windows of possibility when they go unchecked. The thoughts we choose to think have a cascading effect on our actions and our outcomes. As long as we are breathing, old thinking will attempt to replay because that’s what our brains do in an effort to protect ourselves from harm (anything we haven’t done before).
Left to its own devices, our brains will follow the paved, worn highway that they have travelled countless times before because it’s the quickest way to solve the question of “what is the easiest way to keep myself safe from any potential harm?” Our brains are just doing their job.
One clue that we may be choosing to think old thoughts that don’t serve our vision for the future is feeling like we’re stuck in an ongoing cycle of the same feelings, responses and results. This leads to a powerless feeling about what’s possible.
When we make the effort to change what you’re thinking on purpose, possibilities in our lives expand.
Going off-road with our thinking means making a deliberate effort to feed our brains new information of our choosing. New thinking paves the road to our unique vision for where we want to go and who we want to be in the future, unlike default thoughts based on past experience led from self-protective fear and doubt. New thoughts about the possibility of realizing our big goals will fuel the action steps we need to take to bring our desired results to life.
- Visualize where you want to go and work backwards.
- What do you need to think to get there?
- What tools do you have to blaze the trail?
Go off-road with your thinking, expand what’s possible, and get where you want to go.