“Just lift the door of your car.” That’s an annoying way of saying “Just get ready to take your car up your driveway.” What you’re saying is “Just get ready to get up onto your driveway.” And that’s what this lift is for.
When you’re talking about lifting a car, you don’t think about what you’re doing. You think about how much it’s worth. You think about how much it’s worth to you. You think about how much it’s worth to you.
This is why it doesn’t really work. Most of our actions are all over the place and we rarely have a clear, defined goal. So instead of taking this concept and making it more concrete, I thought it would be helpful to break it down into a couple of simple steps.
First, I think the first step is to get a clear goal. And that generally involves thinking about what you want to accomplish, why you want to accomplish it, and how you plan to accomplish it. This is also the first step in figuring out if youre on autopilot.
The second step is to start thinking about what it is you want to accomplish. It is easy for people to get lost in their own thoughts when this second step is not clearly defined. That is a recipe for burnout.
If we were on autopilot, we wouldn’t have the luxury of thinking about what we want to accomplish. If we were on autopilot, we would never figure out how to get it done.
If we were on autopilot, we would just figure out what we want to accomplish, and then simply get it done. If we were on autopilot, we would never figure out how to get it done.
We can be on autopilot all we want, but there is a third step that we can take to become aware of and do this thing. We have, in the words of Martin Seligman, that “cognitive ability to notice how we are thinking and not to think it.” We can actually become aware of the thought, and then simply do it.
That’s a great tip, that’s really helpful. The first tip is to notice we are on autopilot. If you’ve ever had a conversation in your head, you know how easy it is to be distracted by things that were not related to what you were actually saying. When we are on autopilot, we are so convinced that we are just doing something that doesn’t matter that we fail to realize that it is, in fact, what counts.
This is one of those times that is very true. Whenever we are doing something mindfully, we tend to get caught up in our thoughts. And we become so caught up in them that we fail to notice we are actually being a little lazy, and that we are actually doing something that we are not really doing.