How to Make Every Day Count

You're reading How to Make Every Day Count, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles. Life is really complicated. It's, at times, almost impossible to make sense of. There are moments that we feel absolutely clear on who we are, what we are doing and all our energies align, but a lot of life is spent in a whirlwind of busyness that feels productive, but in reality isn’t at all. When thinking about why we get swept away into these bursts of activity that seem quite out of control, we must consider our relationship with our subconscious. Of course, our subconscious is vital in running the show efficiently and quietly in the background. We need it to take care of simple repetitive tasks so that we can be more energy efficient machines. Because of the subconscious, the brain can conserve energy-draining conscious processing for the stuff that counts: activities that require our full attention and focus. When we drive a long distance and can't recall huge chunks of the journey, it's because our subconscious took over so that we don't deplete our mental energy with taxing conscious thought. The challenge is that as time goes on and our 24/7 lives become busier and busier, the subconscious deliberately chooses patterns that it recognizes and we therefore become more and more habituated in our daily life. Now some may say that the more habituated we are, the easier li...
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