Sublime

The approach to slowing down that you will encounter in this book is based on a set of principles known as Psychology of Mind, which was initially inspired by a man named Syd Banks and was formulated into a psychology by Dr. Roger Mills and Dr. George Pransky.1

Your subconscious mind is reactive and responds to the nature of your thoughts. When your conscious mind (the Little Me) is full of fear, worry, and anxiety, the negative emotions engendered in your subconscious mind (the Big Me) are released and flood the conscious mind with a sense of panic, foreboding, and despair. When this happens, you can, li

The guilt, fear, and doubt subside. It isn’t necessarily our fault that we developed these habits in the first place, but it’s our sole responsibility to change the firing of neurons in our brain if we want to have a different life experience.

model all of the great masters of history and strip away all the layers of complexity from your days. Simplify. Streamline everything. Become a purist. Less really is more. Concentrate on just a few work projects so you make them amazing versus diluting your attention on too many.

By choosing to productively obsess about his horror of tackling the contract work, he’d begun to examine his assumptions and listen to his negative self-talk with a new ear — and that proved enough. He used his brain’s full power to test his assumptions and examine his self-talk and concluded — at first subconsciously and then consciously — that hi

This week, please be sure to work with your affirmations of choice and your blurts at the end of each day’s morning pages. Convert all blurts into positive affirmations.