--Salvador Dali
Wouldn't it be amazing to wake up like this? Even just once?
I'll confess, my first reaction was to laugh out loud at Dali's sheer grandiosity. But then I reframed his quote in my mind and thought to myself, hmmmm... maybe he's on to something. Maybe--every once in a while--we all need a little grandiosity and extra-heavy-duty confidence.
Most things--even hilariously grandiose statements that might rub you the wrong way on a first read--can be rethought or reframed into a form that helps you, helps your mindset, or helps motivate you to be more productive.
So I kept reframing: what can I do to encourage this kind of mood, this kind of state of mind in myself?
Hey, maybe I ought to try saying the following to myself once a day, just to see what happens:
"Every morning, upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being [my name], and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this [my name]."
--[My name]
If I start developing a grandiosity complex I can always cut back to saying it once a week.
Readers, have you ever leaped out of bed like Salvadore Dali? In a mood of pure creativity, pure confidence, pure wonder at what you might accomplish in the coming day?
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