The Most Important Meeting of My Day
I have learned to listen more to my internal self rather than getting caught up in external pressures. This has helped me to become a more fulfilled and happier person. It has helped me to be in touch with what is important to me and what I want.
The news, social media, and expectations of others all create pressure for me. If I am not careful, they take me from my goals that are important to me. They create feelings of fear and inadequacy.
This is where I have created my most important meeting of the day: a meeting with myself. I meditate, journal, and read things that inspire me to look within.
It can be hard to keep this meeting! There are emails, work, laundry…so many things that can easily crop up in which I almost cancel the meeting. I did not start to regularly make it a fixed part of my routine until I started thinking of it as the most important meeting of my day.
Because of this meeting, I am more productive, creative and in tune with what I really want from my life.
As I meditate or journal, here are some questions I regularly use to prompt important “discussions” with myself.
What is on my mind bothering me now? Why is this important to me?
What are my long-term goals I need to remind myself of?
What are my intentions for the day?
What do I want to create space for?
What am I grateful for?
What creative ideas would l like to explore (business or personal)?
How do I want to show up in the world?
My favorite: What are other things I need to know for today? Oftentimes I just “free write” in my journal - writing whatever comes to mind. It is amazing to me what ends up on paper.
In business, meeting with others is important for getting feedback, keeping everyone on track, brainstorming new ideas, creating relationships, and getting work done. Sometimes I miss the one person who is the most important in this equation: myself.
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