When the Servant Becomes the Tyrant 🕯️

"You must learn a new way to think before you can master a new way to be." — Marianne Williamson

I used to think my mind was the answer to everything.

"The mind is a wonderful servant but a terrible master."

Plan better. Think harder. Rationalize faster.
Stack enough ideas, arguments, blueprints, and life will finally behave.

But the mind is tricky.

“When you let the intern run the company.”

It’s brilliant at solving problems it invents.
It’s a master at predicting catastrophes that will never happen.
It spins itself into a hurricane and then tells you the only way out is more wind.

And if you don't catch it…
If you don't notice who's actually steering the ship…
You start living in reaction to your own projections instead of reality.

The mind wasn’t designed to lead.

It was designed to serve.

To problem-solve. To analyze. To help.
But it needs orders. It needs a deeper authority behind it. A conscious captain, not a reflexive prisoner.

If you let the mind rule, it will protect you into paralysis.
It will guard you into a prison and call it safety.

You don't have to silence your mind.

You have to lead it.

You have to remember that the thoughts aren’t the thinker.

You are.

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Inner Work

Next time you feel overwhelmed by racing thoughts, try this:

Pause.
Ask yourself:

"Is my mind serving me right now, or is it scaring me into submission?"

Then act from the place beneath the panic.
The place that watches the thoughts, instead of drowning in them.

Leadership starts inside.

Your shadow speaks in symbols.
In patterns. In pause. In the ache you keep dismissing.
The 30-Day Shadow Work Journal is a place to listen… gently, honestly, bravely.

Let’s talk about it.

Where has your mind been running the show lately?

Is it in the endless loops of self-doubt?
The constant rehearsals of worst-case scenarios?
The subtle ways you convince yourself that safety is better than growth?

If you're willing, share it.

Because leadership, real leadership, starts the moment you admit you've let fear run your internal government for too long.

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All in all.

Your mind isn’t broken.

It isn’t your enemy.

It’s a brilliant machine.

But no machine runs well without a clear operator.

When you let the mind call the shots, you end up living in reaction.
When you remember it's a tool, not a king, you move back into creation.

Take the wheel.
Steady your grip.
Remind the mind it works for you.

Not the other way around.

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