Evaluate your autopilot

Activities in Journey towards home support our own journey to connect with ourselves. These activities can be done at any time, in any order, and they are sure to help. If you are looking to do it more systematically, check out our available courses.

This activity references from our article on how too much of knowledge bombardment is driving our lives.

In this activity, you will have to make a table – use a device or pen & paper.

Now in the first column, list down any decisions you made. Now, these decisions could be to buy a product, where to buy it from, or a movie you saw, or a book you picked to read, or signed up for a class, or subscribed for a newsletter or decided on your hair colour, or a dress, or a lifestyle choice (for eg. What you are going to start/stop eating based on some reel you saw). If it’s overwhelming, list just 10 things.

Now, against each item – write your “Why”.

Think deeply, think what made you come to that decision. You bought a Tshirt because your friend might have told you that those are comfortable and shapes your body well. Or you might have bought that art therapy ticket because it kept showing up every day in your Instagram ads.

Now some of your decisions will have clear source, like some friend or some ad or popularity. Some of your more patternistic decisions, like refusing to wear some colour, goes way deeper – which we will consider in more advanced level activities.

For now, do this exercise every week, or every month – to see how your decisions are driven, and for 10 such decision, make one – that is completely out of a whim, just because you feel like it, and notice how you feel!