The dark days are miserable..

'I dread the dark evenings.'

'I hate this time of year.'

'I won't feel normal until spring.'

'Winter just drains me.'

These thoughts used to run through my head every October.

And I'd feel exactly as those thoughts suggested I should.

A little depressed. Heavy. Lacking in motivation.

And those thoughts would run in and out, affecting my joy for months and months.

I told myself it was the darkness doing it to me.

But then I started to notice more and more people who'd thrive in winter. They genuinely looked forward to it.

And as I looked, I began to sense how that could be true.

Same darkness, but completely different experience.

Weird?

Not really.

What's the difference?

It's all about the stories we tell about what these dark days mean to us.

The people who struggle through winter are honouring thoughts like:

'Everything dies in winter.'

'I'm trapped inside for months.'

'The dark makes me depressed.'

They experience those thoughts as reality. And they feel cranky and a little sad.

The people who embrace winter like badasses do one of two things:

1. They tell themselves different stories:

'Cosy nights in.' 'Perfect time to focus on my projects.' 'The contrast makes summer twice as good.'

Or:

2. The negative stories about winter just don't occur to them.

Their minds are quiet about it.

So they experience winter as… fine. Sometimes, even beautiful.

For millions of people, winter means months of feeling knocked back, unproductive, and low.

That's a significant chunk of your life spent in unnecessary mental struggle.

Now, yes - sunlight matters. Get outside. Get your face in daylight. But what too many people miss is how caught up in their thinking they can be.

That makes all the difference between enjoying winter and just enduring it.

Since seeing the beauty in that, my winters have not been the same.

I stopped believing my thoughts about what the dark meant. I stopped treating 'winter makes me depressed' as a fact.

I realised I was just experiencing my thinking about winter, not winter itself.

Now I actually look forward to the dark.

I'm Batboy on a mission to cheer up miseryguts on the other side of the planet through words.

Same season → Different thinking → Completely different experience.

This understanding - that your experience comes from thought, not from circumstances - is what the Untethered Mind course cements in you.

This happens by guiding you through realisations that shift how you see your reality.

This could have life-changing implications for you.

The course shows you experientially how your thoughts create your reality, then guides you through internalising this so deeply that you become far less affected by negative stories when they do show up.

Whether it's about darker nights, difficult people, your business struggles, or anything else.

You can learn more about the course here.

Best,

Batboy