23/08/2022
📣Do you pay attention and give more air time to your good days or bad days?
💡As humans, we are wired to look for the problems and threats within our environment, and this was exceptionally helpful to our survival thousands of years ago.
💭The inclination to pay more attention, and give more weight to negative experiences over those that are either neutral or positive, is known as the negativity bias.
📌However, in today’s modern world, this tendency isn’t always helpful, and often means we’re overly-focused and sensitive to our limitations, mistakes, and what isn’t going particularly well for us.
🧠 While it’s certainly okay and normal for us to have days like this, by allowing our negativity bias to take over, we often forget to pay attention to our wins. These are moments, or even days, when we feel in flow, focused, and unstoppable.
🏃♀️ If we pay more attention to our good days, we can also learn to tune in to WHY we had a good day. Maybe you changed something small about your work environment. Maybe you did that workout after work instead of going straight home. Or maybe you managed to get some quiet time, or even squeezed in that 10-minute meditation you had been meaning to listen to for weeks.
✨Whatever it may be, if we put more of our energy towards pinpointing the circumstances surrounding our good days, rather than trying to analyse our ‘bad’ days and everything that went wrong, we’ll likely be able to replicate the same environment next time, and in doing so, make ourselves a lot better off.