Watch your thoughts for it will become your destiny

“Watch your thoughts; for they become words. Watch your words; for they become actions. Watch your actions; for they become habits. Watch your habits; for they become character. Watch your character for it will become your destiny.”

On my quest for mental freedom and happiness, I found a huge barrier. My thoughts. I often found myself questioning my ability in situations of uncertainty. However, upon on reflection I would realise that I was more than capable of handling and succeeding in that situation. Working in sales since the age of 16 I have always found that I would have moments and days of success followed by days of failure. Unsurprisingly, the days of success resulted in high levels of confidence and in the days of failure I would be extremely frustrated. I regularly lacked consistency whether it be at university or during my early days as a broker in both my moods and performance. It was similar with my gym routine and health lifestyle. A week of heavy exercise followed by a week of no exercise whatsoever. Why ? For a long time in my life it never really bothered me but as I got older and more ambitious I wanted to know why does this keep happening to me and where does it stem from.

I started studying about our brain and the influence of our subconscious and conscious mind.

The subconscious mind is essentially like a memory bank which has stored previous life experiences, your beliefs, memories, skills, situations that you have encountered in. In simple terms it…