Rinse it now or scrub it later | #57
Rinse it now or scrub it later | #57 Daily Dose of Dawn at dawn 🌞
Small choices made now can make life much easier later. In Daily Dose of Dawn at dawn #57, Dawn Super shares a simple but powerful metaphor for personal growth: rinse it now, or scrub it later. This post explores mindset magic, habit change, and how playful reminders help rewire behavior over time. You’ll learn why kindness toward yourself makes change stick, how humor lowers resistance, and how thinking about “future you” turns everyday moments into opportunities for growth and grace.
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Rinse it now or scrub it later – #57 Daily Dose of Dawn at dawn
I’m standing, looking at the pan from the baked shells I just made. It’s like this psychic ability kicks in and my brain watches the sauce on an imaginary timelapse getting more and more solid, then I see future me, scrub daddy in hand, elbow greasing it all off and my brain whispers… rinse it now, or scrub it later.
Motivational Mantra #432. This is yet another ‘right tighty, lefty loosy’ in my life. I have probably hundreds of them now, my mindset magic strategies. Not unlike the Barney Show, my brain will help me, as if I’m still a toddler, with all the things I’m still practice, practice, practicing by feeding them back to me in catchy phrases or song lyrics.
A speaker I love to listen to, has a great metaphor about change, about learning new things, about giving yourself and others grace. I’ll share it with you because I never forgot it after hearing it once… Abraham Hicks says… when you see a little toddler starting to walk and they wobble a little and fall down, you don’t say, ‘Get up you little dummy! What’s wrong with you?’
Just the visual of that made me laugh out loud and each time I laugh, I know the lesson is sticking. Laughter takes you out of defense mode and when you can hear things playfully or treat them like they’re not a big deal, it makes it easier for your brain and your body to want to do that again… oh, that worked? More of that then please.
When you find yourself scrubbing a pot, think to yourself… what could past-me have done to make this easier for now-me? Now replace ‘scrubbing a pot’ with whatever it is you’re facing – dirty dishes, talking too much, being an angry driver, forgetting stuff… all our personal things that we either don’t like about ourselves or don’t like that we do – they can all be altered. You can teach an old adult new tricks 😉.
Happy matters. That’s my favorite mindset magic phrase. It helped me save now-me from the programming of old-me and started a movement 🎇 🎇 🎇
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