Thoughts become our Words. Words become our Actions. Actions become our Reality.

We create the reality in which we live by how we think, what we say, and what we do. However, many of us only focus on the “doing”: we join a gym, we start a new diet, we take a new job, we get married, we have a child (or two or three) - we ACT without a conscious analysis of our thoughts or the words that we use every day. We then stop going to the gym, or the diet escapes us, or we dislike or even quit our new jobs, or we get divorced, or we're unsure how to adapt to our new life with children etc.. These actions fail us because they are resting on a precarious foundation.

Our thoughts and our words are our foundation, like that of a house. We must START with them. We must consciously invest in them and build them up to support the actions that we take and the reality in which we want to live.

Give this a try:

Take a piece of paper and a pen.
Sit.
Write down every thought that comes into your head.
Every. Single. One.
Keep going until thoughts start to repeat themselves - until no new thought enters your mind.
Use as much paper and as many pens as needed.
Pin that paper up in a room and take a look at it every day for the next week.
Add to it as needed.

What did you learn? What did you become aware of? How did the thoughts that you wrote down affect the actions that you took that week?

Becoming conscious of your thoughts and beliefs is the first step to building an effective foundation for ACTION.

Nikki xo