Work Session 2: Step Outside of the Box

It is 8:11pm and time for my Daily Work Session. Today my affirmation was “I will not follow fear within this world”. My practice was a hourly one and involved two thirty minute meditation sessions. I normally do my first meditation session in the morning after I shower and then my second session before I go to bed.

Throughout my day I will set a hourly timer on my watch which reminds me to repeat my affirmation and think about it for a moment each and every hour until I go to bed. I have been following similar practices for about 150 days now and it has changed my life.

When I say similar practices I mean two thirty minute meditation sessions and a hourly practice each and every day. I now consider my life to be a practice. A practice in which I am aware of how I feel and what I’m thinking as I navigate through each day. I no longer get upset about little things because I feel the emotion arising within me and then let it pass. I do not get sucked into them.

I no longer get sucked into my thoughts either. For someone who has never done meditation or some sort of practice this might not make much sense so let me try to clarify.

Most people live their lives in their own heads. They are thinking about what they must do in order to make their “dreams” come true. Whatever they may be. For me personally, it was launching the next unicorn tech company.

I would spend my days and nights plotting on how I would come up with the next big thing. Whether it be a Python algorithm for day trading, an app on the Apple app store designed using the Swift programming language or a Pickleball manufacturing company I tried many different things to make my “dreams” come true.

I was quite literally trying to make life fit into some box. A box which I designed myself in my own head. A box that was nothing more than limitations I placed upon myself. The events of my life had to fit in this box. My life would revolve around the vision that I one day would become some tech entrepreneur. Therefore everything I did involved trying to obtain some future state of being.

You see, most people are living in these boxes that are created out of nothing more than their own thoughts and idealism of how their life should be. It’s not a real pleasant way to “live” in my opinion. You get stressed out when life doesn’t happen according to your own idea of how it should. You don’t get that promotion you thought you deserved and it’s almost as if the world is ending. Maybe not getting that promotion was a blessing in disguise? Something that is impossible to realize in the moment, but looking back might become obvious.

Please stop putting yourself in a box. Life happens when you step outside of the box. That little box needs to be thrown away. That little box is hard to get rid of though. That little box usually contains your deeply seeded beliefs about who you think you are and who you should be.

Thanks for reading! My daily work session is now over. There was no planning that went into this session. I simply sat down with my laptop and started typing. I took action instead of thinking about taking action. This is the result. Onwards and upwards.