DROP THE PEANUT
Understanding how to catch a monkey in the jungle gives you the knowledge to beat rumination in real-time. It involves a peanut and a special monkey-catching cage!
Here’s Louise to explain everything:
insight
The hard truth is not everything will matter beyond the moment.
We all have peanuts that can be dropped if we recognise them as peanuts.
Drop the Peanut is a straightforward skill encouraging you to identify and drop those ‘peanuts’ that you have no influence over, and waste precious time and energy on.
Only some things can be dropped, although if you stop and think, you might be surprised to learn how many that can be.
TODAY'S ACTION
Recognise yourself ruminating? Learn to let the small things go by asking yourself, “can I drop this peanut?”
Dropping the peanut is for the small stuff. You might need to build on it with the Fast Forward skill we looked at previously.