Are you responding or reacting

Weeks 41 & 42, Midlife Journal Guide

The core of much psychology and self-help (which is just philosophy in practise) is the idea that you have two main modes of operation:

Reactive mode - your survival, default brain takes control and although you might think you’re thinking and making decisions, it’s subconscious. Your brain is filtered through cultural expectations and gendered conditioning, biases and self-limiting beliefs that go unchallenged in reactive mode.

Responsive mode - you have some emotional and mental bandwidth to actually process the right thought for you. You don’t always accept the first thought in your head, you are able to recognise that some thoughts are imposter syndrome, or perfectionism or come from a place of people pleasing, and can proactively cast them aside to reach for a more supportive thought.

Living with intention is the difference between being in these two modes. It’s the ability to choose.

So as we forge through our Midlife, redefined Daily Journal Guide adventure we are back for the second round of Action & Living in Intention, helping you respond to your life, rather than always reacting to it.

For those of you newly following me on Your Midlife Matters (thank you for being here!) I explain how this year-long Midlife, redefined Daily Journal Guide adventure with yourself will work in Power is in Your Hand. You can start this journalling guide at any time of the year because it’s not date related: The daily prompts from Weeks 1 to 40 are here.

For ALL my lovely subscribers there is my free Midlife Daily Journal Template in my previous post here which you can use as a guide each day - and what I personally use every day.

For just €5 per month, this Midlife Daily Journal Guide (and lots of other content and discounts on coaching) is for my paid subscribers.

So let’s get into the prompts for Week 41 and 42 of your journaling journey.