Turn off life on autopilot

2023 Author: Katelyn Chandter | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-05-21 13:08

For most of your life, you operate on autopilot, guided solely by habits and reflexes. You do something, go somewhere, do something and somehow function. But 90% of your actions are the result of autopilot.

We spend almost our entire life without coming into conscious activity. We live on autopilot, like robots with a pre-programmed program. We obey impulses without realizing what triggered them. We woke up, ate, ran on business, came home, had a snack, had a little rest and sleep. In the morning, the program repeats in the same way. A little fun on the weekend, and then on a new weekly circle.

We do not have self-control of actions when most of the decisions are made on an instinctive level. We have convinced ourselves that this is how it should be, which means that we are acting on a given route. But this autopilot does not allow us to get out of the beaten track. Look at the people on the transport in the morning. They are like wound up robots that run about their business, not paying attention to what is happening. So you are, like a little tired cog that has firmly taken its position.

Why is that bad? One day you will wake up and feel miserable. You will find yourself in the position you least wanted to be in. It's good if you're still young enough, but what if you make it to retirement? At that moment, it will be too late to take off the autopilot, when the best years of life are long gone. It's time to wake up before it's too late, otherwise you may miss all the fun, along with the prospects.