What I Unlearned to Find Peace This Year

I actually gave this week's prompt from a personal realization because I got reminded of the first prompt that I gave at the beginning of the year. It would be nice if a lot of you remember, it was a part of the reason this week's prompt came to mind so I'll just pair both prompts for our reminder to reflect, just incase.

_{Prompt in January - The year just began! What have you decided to release for a better year? Have you noticed any small wins from it yet? If it’s too early, simply share what you chose to release.}

_{This week's Prompt - What is one thing you’ve unlearned in the first half of the year that improved your life? It could be a habit, a mindset, or a direction you were heading in. If you haven’t unlearned anything, what is one thing you learned during this time that has made your life better?}

I didn't get to write a post as a response to the prompt in January but I had just one thing I wanted to unlearn since late last year into this new year, it was to be busy and not productive. And the only way to do that is by choosing to be more intentional about the actions I decide to take. In that resolution, I started the new year.

So far, what is the one thing I've unlearned in the first half of the year? It's giving my energy to what doesn't deserve it, especially since I came to realize that I have too many things going on in my life that needs to be sorted out and I need my energy for that. So I unlearned trying to please every distractions to my focus that come my way.

It's not that I no longer do all that, I've just become more aware of myself when I'm not on my focus path but entertaining a distraction. Even as far to spending my time on social media, I have learned to make sure I'm feeding my brain with the right information by the kind of videos and reels I watch, by conditioning the algorithms.

Life on this other half of the year have been quite peaceful for me, because I feel I'm not performing so much in how I live my life now. I just struggle within myself to get things done while saying NO to the things that don't serve the purpose of who I am becoming in this year. This is a soft reminder to myself to take more actions.