Lucky You! Head-games for a better world (Illustrated by equestrian jewelry)

"Lucky You"  

Head Game Reboot Techniques for Being our Best Selves, and Creating a Better World.

Joy.  Success.  Leadership.  Oneness.

 Bad Day?   STOP.  Here's how to reboot your brain. 

To achieve goals in life, love, fitness, business, leadership, and to find opportunity and victory in past bumps and bruises, I've created "Brain Games" to play on myself.  They work like a "Brain Reboot" - setting it to function best.   These games have turned my life around, helped me to achieve goals in life and in being a better version of myself.  The games change nothing in the real world, and change everything in mine.

Try these simple techniques for turning around a - - let's call it a bad day - -for now.  

(1) THE LUCKY LINE GAME

 DO THIS:  If you think you are having a bad day, stop whatever you're doing for a few moments. Pause to think.

THINK about the LUCKY LINE:   Imagine all the people in the world lined up from the luckiest to the unluckiest. Pause for a moment to visualize them waiting in the lucky line.  Visualize the line stretching out over grassy hills, across beaches, down tree lined streets on a sunny day.  Visualize the people waiting in the Lucky Line, shifting their weight, crossing their arms, scratching their heads, waiting. Then cast your eyes first up to the luckiest, then down the line to consider the people at the wrong end of the Lucky Line, people who can't feed their children, caught in war zones, maybe in Somalia where arms and legs get chopped off for someone's sport, and the rest of their lives can't even scratch their own itchy nose. Unimaginable- but try.  You are only imagining the horrors that too many are living.  Try to be them for a moment.

Now, back to you.  What was it that you imagined was a problem? Really? 

We all know that getting life into perspective inevitably leads to gratitude, which changes everything.  But it's not always easy be grateful for things we've come to take as given, because we've known no other way.  

This "Lucky Line" technique even helped me when I was having trouble readjusting after an assault.  I stopped by a beach, looked at the azure sea and sunny cloudless blue sky, and felt only hurt. I calmed down to imagine the Lucky Line.  It brought my focus back to the present and the beauty around me.   Soon enough instead of hurting, my thoughts turned to the fact that I was fine - only my ego was bruised for putting myself in the wrong situation, trusting the wrong person.

Yeah- life is not fair.  And we should thank our Lucky Stars   that life is unfair, because we are certainly on the good end of the lucky line.  If you can read this, you can read, have opportunity- that's lucky.  If you are reading this on an electronic device, if you are safe and well fed, you are one of the lucky ones- not matter what else is happening and who might have more, we are luckier than most.  

Horseshoes represent good luck. These are overflowing with it.  Lucky You!

 

MORE "REBOOT BRAIN GAMES":

(2)   WORD EXCHANGE. Try to stop using the word 'problem' substituting instead the word 'challenge.'

The subconscious has no sense of humor. The subconscious hears and absorbs every word you say to yourself and to the world. Problems are weighty. Challenges invigorate our resolve.   Problems are "Poor me" and challenges and "I'm gonna show the world!"  Change the negative words you say even to yourself.  The change to yourself is astonishing.  

"Magic Mane" Horse necklace. "Love and Gratitude" on the back --> 

Love + Gratitude = Joy

Look for the best in every person and situation, add a dollop of gratitude, you're gonna smile more from your core.

(3)  ALTERNATE NARRATIVE 

BACK TO THE "BAD" DAY?  If you think you are having that 'bad day' we discussed earlier (what shall we call it now?), or you're in a situation, like a traffic jam, trouble paying bills, annoying co-workers; try these words for perspective. 

 "This isn't my first choice of how to spend the day, but if this is my worst problem, I'm truly blessed." 

-or these words if you're impatient in a traffic jam, someone is blocking your path in the market, stuck in the airport, etc-

"Waiting for this is not going to substantively change my life."

Practice this in unimportant situations, so that you develop a 'spiritual muscle memory' and patience comes more naturally.  For example if someone is blocking the supermarket aisle deciding between Grape Nuts and Granola, repeat again to yourself how the extra 15 seconds won't change your life.  Sometimes the person will move on without noticing you.   If they do realize they blocked you and begin to apologize- smile and tell them not to worry- to take their time.  You will observe a tiny, beautiful, ripple of kindness go from you to them. 

 How do your tiny acts of kindness resonate?  We'll never really know, but maybe that guy blocking the aisle just lost his job, and maybe your moment of patience means he won't go home and yell at his wife, and maybe the wife won't hit the kids, and maybe the kid won't kick the cat, and maybe the cat won't scratch your kid, and maybe nothing comes back to you so quickly, but it all comes back.   

The day after my 21st birthday I went to London for 5 days and accidentally stayed 6 years (story for another day).  Some people were extraordinarily kind to me.  Those people, without exception, told me that when they visited the USA, Americans were incredibly kind to them, and this was their way of giving back.  You don't have to believe in god, past lives, or karma to see how kindness resonates.  

(4) START IN YOUR CORE:   The effects of this next idea on everyday life is shocking.  This is one of the core thoughts which changed my core being.   

Being good doesn't begin with your actions.  It begins in the core of your heart.  It's not enough for your behavior to be kind- your very thoughts about others must be kind.  

How will this change your life?  Consider this: If someone is 90% crumby and 10% good, and you look for that 10%, you find that 10%.  You just placed yourself in a 10% better world.  

More than that, if you believe in people, they will generally try to live up to your belief- they will be better people because of your belief.  Everybody wins.

If you look, you will 'see'

              the horse is in a heart shape. 

As in Life, what you look for is what you find.

On the back, the words "Love is Everywhere"

(also in palm trees, flowers, and swans)

BRINGING THE BEST OF "REBOOT BRAIN GAMES" for YOURSELF & THE WORLD

DON'T STOP AT FEELING BETTER- THERE IS A WHOLE LOT BETTER TO FEEL!!!

The true power in the 'Reboot Brain Games' is not just to use people in your imagination to give yourself a better day.  That would be like running a marathon and sitting down right before the finish line. 

(5)  GIVE BACK:  Find someone less lucky than yourself and help them.

Most important- shhhhh. Don't tell anyone what you did. Don't expect thanks. Putting your attention to accolades, thanks, praise or getting your name on a wall will rob you of the true benefit of being and doing good. 

Instead, thank the person you helped for allowing you to be of service to them.

Use these ideas in support of self, and to lead those in your life.  Find the gentlest opportunities to put the ideas on the table for others to pick up when they are ready.  

"When the best leaders work is done, the people say 'we did this ourselves'" (Tao).

One of the enriching experiences of wearing my jewelry is that when people compliment the physical beauty, it gives an opportunity to open conversations, to know each other better, to lead with ideas.  You don't need the jewelry.  All these ideas and more are in the book "Designs for Life" for sale on Amazon (Click Here), which is written specifically to share using the metaphorical jewelry, with the lowest possible expense.  Each page is designed to be a gem you can hold onto for a more beautiful life.    If you want jewelry, it's just usefully beautiful as a tool to achieve your goals - - -and it's all available in a wide variety of prices by using silver or gold, white sapphires, cz or diamonds- or made to order just for you.  .

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Jane@JaneGordon.com 

212-688-8600

Always remember:Being good, and doing good, is its own reward.