Soundtracks

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time”

Maya Angelou

Song: After Rain by Dermot Kennedy

Article: This is how your brain sabotages your happiness by Benjamin Hardy and Dan Sullivan.

Thought: Jon Acuff wrote a book called Soundtracks about filling your head with a new soundtrack rather than the self defeating, insecure, and destructive one most of us run on default. Here is the soundtrack I read out loud to myself daily:

• In order to love who you are, you cannot hate the experiences that shaped you.
• Empathy is communicating that incredible healing message of “you are not alone.” (Brene Brown)
• Curiosity beats criticism.
• You’re actually not a mess at all; you’re just a feeling person in a messy world. (Glennon Doyle)
• If I’m going to predict the future, I might as well pick a positive one. (Jon Acuff)
• I’m here to get it right, not to be right (Brene Brown)
• I choose my thoughts that lead to my emotions that result in my actions. No one takes that control from me.
• Every time I said to myself “I can’t take this anymore” I was wrong. (Glennon Doyle)
• I’ll disappoint everyone else before I’ll disappoint myself. (Glennon Doyle)
• Connection not container.
• Expectation ends in a period; hope ends with a comma but. (Rachael Root)
• What do I have to learn here? (Ted Lasso)
• Let go to let grow.

Create the soundtrack you need to change your mind.