The Critical Moment: Recreate your Past or Rise Above it

 Every morning when you wake up, you get to choose your reality:

Do you recreate your past, or do you consciously create your future?

Option 1: Yielding to what made you weak yesterday

Option 2: Turning to the God-Power within you

In the first 30 minutes after waking, your mind is in an altered state; your subconscious is wide open. This is when you are most impressionable. What you do in this window sets the emotional tone for your day.

This is the critical angle of attack of your day. 

Do you move forward step-by-step, ferociously, choosing long-term gain over short-term pleasure? 

Or do you mindlessly take the bait of immediate gratification,  and blow the critical morning moment to make true change in your life? 

If you go for the instant hit, sometimes the rest of the day feels like this lingering low-level, constant anxiety and depression, or you're just scatterbrained. And if you're not careful, you'll spiral into compulsive behaviors and get stuck in an instant gratification loop:

Social media. Online shopping. Mindless searching. Compulsive thinking.

This compulsivity is the cornerstone of dissociation and escapism. 

If there's a reality you crave but can't seem to reach—
And you keep looping in the same self-defeating cycle—
You must ask why you're still choosing it.

Here’s the truth:

We only do what we believe benefits us.

In other words, the only reason why we choose anything in life is because there is a belief that it benefits us somehow. 

So if you're stuck in a destructive habit, don't shame yourself—get curious.

What false belief is this habit serving?

That’s the core lie.

Find it.
Name it out loud.
Tame it with truth.

Once you name the lie, you remove its power.
From there, your new reality begins to form effortlessly.

Most people tend to think they’re chained to their bad habits.

That they have to fight and suffer to break free.
That’s a lie.

Once you're aware of your bad habit, you're no longer controlled by it.

In other words, when you're unaware that it's become a habit, that is when it is actually a habit. 

 If you've identified your bad habit, but you're still acting on it, you haven't found your core belief. Keep digging, the answer will come to you.

Freedom is found not in resisting the darkness, but in revealing it. Sometimes you have been telling yourself a false narrative for so long, you're not even aware that it exists. Nothing is more freeing than step by step, ferociously, uncovering the lies you've told yourself. What lies are the most detrimental? It's not the lies you tell your partner, your parents, your kids, but the lies you tell yourself are the silent killer. 

The ego does this to protect you from harsher truths you're afraid to face. 

But fear is a mile wide, and an inch deep. 

So every morning, ask yourself:

Will I yield to what made me weak yesterday?

or will I rise with the God-Power within me,

release my illusion of control,

and give my higher mind the reins?