Controlling the Controllable is essential to getting to know yourself and stepping up into your potential.

It can be trained.

Physically. Mentally. Emotionally.

Workout. Take a cold shower. Go on 5am walks. Fast for 24 hours. Be in nature.

Meditate. Journal. Video record personal reflections and watch them later. Be by yourself

Understand your visceral reactions to observations, interactions, memories. Understand why certain things make you feel certain ways but don’t suppress emotions. Lean into them in order to develop a clearer understanding.

All of these either physiologically or psychologically help provide clarity for sifting through what is in your control and what is not.

Someone saying something to you is not in your control. Someone acting a certain perceivably towards you is not in your control. What comes up from your subconscious is not in your control.

But your internal response is. Your tone is. How you store a memory as positive or negative is.

Is time taken to understand and break down the why’s and how’s in order to solve a problem. Or are you purely reacting instead of proactively training.

By training your mind daily whether it be through the above suggestions or your own ingredients, it allows the executive decision making regions of your brain to stay active in times of stress vs allowing the stress responding regions to dominate. Clarity will be maintained and these experiences will be stored as positive learning memories vs stressful emotional memories that incite those feelings whenever those memories get accessed.

Figure out your own ingredients. When done daily, the fortification compounds. Then your mental freedom tank begins to overflow.