I’m proposing a life on default.
Come with me for a minute,
Have you ever had to press the reset on your mobile phone?
Searched for a pin to stick in the little button at the back of your modem to take it back to the factory settings?
Or has your computer experienced the screen of death? Have you had to reboot everything, take it back to default settings, carry out a system restore and remove all the programs that you’ve ever installed?
Your default settings when you arrived were confident, courageous, bold, brave, joy, happiness, love, contentment, peace, belonging, worth …
… those settings were already built in.
You didn’t need to add them in – just like a brand new computer or mobile phone – your settings were working in tip-top condition before you started playing around and changing them.
Through life you started to add programs, or they were programmed into you.
As more things have been added – like what happens on a mobile or computer – space gets used up and things start getting a little slower, sluggish, less efficient.
To the point where you may have played around with so many programs that your original default settings appear overwritten.
Eventually, when you notice things aren’t working, you set out to ‘fix’ the ‘problems’.
But – like what many of us do when we intuitively know something isn’t working the way it was designed – that could be after some time spent with just living with it.
You find things to make the repair, of course you do, no shortage of information, ideas, tools and techniques.
What happens?
You add more programs into the mix.
You may learn you need to delete a few of the programs you put in.
Some you will be happy to press erase on, but others you don’t really (not really, really, really) want to get rid and let go off. You know they don’t work that well, but, well, you just would rather have them than not.
Then there are those programs that you think you have erased forever – just like using the Recycle Bin in Windows – but they never seem to be gone completely.
They can be restored.
Or there are little files that don’t get fully removed, and all it takes is something to pressed and then they are all back again.
You could even run a few through an anti-virus program (another program), but even you know yourself that things just aren’t as efficient as when it came out the box.
On it goes.
Deleting, repairing, fixing, downloading new stuff, trying new ‘tools’ to upgrade what isn’t obviously working.
It’s a never ending cycle.
Until one day.
A moment.
Sanity is restored.
It comes back online.
That’s the best day.
That’s the day when you’ve tried everything else and you’ve eventually get it that in order for anything to work efficiently you are going to have press the default button.
Restore completely the original settings.
Right back to the basics.
Love. Joy. Peace. Contentment, Courageous. Confident. Happiness. Worthy. And?
How do you press the default button?
My honest answer? It’s all in mind.
That’s no answer!
I don’t have ‘10 Ways to Live Your Life On Default’ or ‘Tips For Living Life On Default’.
All I know is my limited understanding, and this is it…
You are only ever one thought away from pressing default.
Just one.
xxx
PS: Here’s a a little something I’ve put together for you, 7 days of self exploration journal prompts exploring ‘Life On Default.
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