{"id":548,"date":"2018-03-16T17:41:38","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T17:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/?post_type=project&#038;p=548"},"modified":"2026-08-07T19:36:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:36:51","slug":"retraining-my-brain-current-list","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/project\/retraining-my-brain-current-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Retraining My Brain &#8211; Current List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, there little loves! About once every year or two I find it is necessary to retrain my beliefs and behaviors to better suit my life and where I want to go. To do that, I make a list and read it every day. It\u2019s an astoundingly simple thing to do that works better for me than sex, drugs, rock n roll or even therapy.<\/p>\n<p>Here my current daily reading for myself:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Moments = fleeting opportunity<\/li>\n<li>Actively pursue joy, love, flow, and exceptional moments<\/li>\n<li>Revel in the flow of your river<\/li>\n<li>Cap your downside high and let your upside ride<\/li>\n<li>Act in the best interest of yourself AND your family, friends, community and world<\/li>\n<li>Gratitude leads to Love leads to Joy<\/li>\n<li>Have no expectation. Flow in your river. Live as both the energy and the manifestation.<\/li>\n<li>Give all that can come through you.<\/li>\n<li>Read the world: people, places, things, for what they can teach you.<\/li>\n<li>Chasing money or using my time for someone else\u2019s agenda are no longer in my best interest.<\/li>\n<li>I return to the purity of childhood &#8211; playful exploration without agendas or task lists, flowing in the moment.<\/li>\n<li>I do not chase the favor of anyone<\/li>\n<li>I have chosen this path as others have chosen theirs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As I re-frame new bullet points for myself, I often keep some of the older ones. It has become something of a life philosophy for me that I can refer to when I am not sure what to do.<\/p>\n<p>Ray Dalio, in his book, Principles, suggests something similar &#8211; creating a set of foundational principles from which you can make good decisions and not lead yourself astray. I will take that one step further and say that you need to re-train yourself by embedding your principles in your mind as part of your daily life.<\/p>\n<p>What do you want YOUR principles to be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A personal practice piece sharing the author&#8217;s current daily-reading list of self-authored principles, used every year or two to retrain her beliefs and behaviors toward joy, flow, and living by intentional values rather than external agendas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","episode_type":"audio","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"project_category":[31],"project_tag":[220,221,223,222],"series":[],"class_list":["post-548","project","type-project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","project_category-observations","project_tag-brain","project_tag-mind","project_tag-principles","project_tag-training"],"acf":{"recommend_blurb":"For anyone who wants a simple, repeatable practice for reshaping their own beliefs and priorities. 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