Jay Shetty

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Seven things to tell yourself every morning.

Let's start with what actually happens when you wake up.

Before your feet hit the floor, before you check your phone, before you brush your teeth, your mind starts talking.

It says, what do I have to do today?

Did I reply to that?

I shouldn't have said that yesterday.

This is going to be stressful.

I'm already behind.

Before your feet hit the floor, your brain had already pulled up yesterday's unfinished argument, the bill you haven't paid, the thing your boss said, the weight you haven't lost, the text you're dreading, that low-grade anxiety that just lives in your chest now.

And here's what's terrifying about this.

You didn't choose a single one of those thoughts.

They chose you.

Your mind hijacked the most neurologically valuable minutes of your entire day and used them to rehearse your fears.

Most people don't wake up and create their day.

They wake up and inherit their anxiety.

And the problem isn't that your mind speaks in the morning.

The problem is that you let it speak unchecked.

What you tell your mind in the first minutes of your day sets the emotional direction of the next 16 hours.

And that is not spiritual exaggeration.