Being Intentional To Avoid Being Average In Any Way, Shape, Or Form

“You didn’t wake up today to be average!” — Alek Toussaint, instructor @onepeloton

How often have you gotten out of bed and said to yourself, “Today, I think I’ll just be average.”?

While you may have never said those words exactly, I’m going to challenge you a little. I bet you’ve said some things to yourself or had thoughts that have made you feel average or maybe even less than.

I know I sure have. Things that put me in a tailspin, made me cranky or supported my shrinking physically.

Like when I “chewed” on someone’s critical comment until the flavor was gone. Or when I stuffed my own feelings until I was about to explode. All because I feared that I’d royally tick someone off. “Hello, Average! Come on in, grab a cup of coffee and stay awhile.”

We’re human. It’s bound to happen. As Dr. Rick Hanson, author of the Buddha’s Brain explains in his many articles and books, our brains are wired to experience negative thoughts. It’s called “negative bias”.

But here’s the real deal, regardless of the negative bias we may experience, none of us were born to be average. We weren’t. We just sometimes choose to be, and maybe not even intentionally.

Just like we choose what to wear every day, we get to choose how we want to show up. We get to choose to be…