Thursday, October 1, 2009
The only time most of us ever learn anything is when we get hit over theback of the head! WHY? Because it's easier not to change. So we keep doing what we're doing until we hit a brick wall.We learn our biggest lessons when things get rough.Success we celebrate- but we don't learn too much. Failure hurts- and that's when we get educated. In retrospect, we usually notice "disasters" were turning points.Effective people don't go looking for problems, but when they get smacked in the mouth, they ask themselves:"How do I need to change what I'm thinking
and what I'm doing?
How can I be better than I am now?"
Losers ignore all the warning signs. When the roof falls in, they ask:
"Why does everything happen to me?"
We reach points in our life when we are ready for new information.Until then, something can be staring us in theface but we don't see it.We are not here to be punished. We are here to be educated. Every event has the potential to transform us, and disasters have the greatest to change our thinking.ACT AS IF EVERY EVENT HAS A PURPOSE, AND YOUR LIFE WILL HAVE PURPOSE.Figure out why you needed an experience, conquer it, and you won't need it again.We are each a cause. Our thoughts attract and create circumstances. As we change, we attract different circumstances. Until we learn a lesson about something, (a) we will either stay stuck on the same lesson, or (b) keep getting the same lesson in different packages."lt's only by going down into the abyss
that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble
there lies your treasure.
The vey cave you are afraid to enter
turns out to be the source of
what you were looking for."
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
Life is a bit like a ladder. To move up, we have to fix the step we're on- whether it's work,relationships, money, whatever. Once the step is fixed, we move to the next step.People handle their steps in different ways:
"I hate this step- I want to be on a different one."
That's when we stay stuck.
"I want someone else's ladder."
That's called jealousy.
"To hell with this ladder- I'm jumping off."
That is called suicide.
Whenever we are stuck, we might ask ourselves: "What haven't I fixed?"
Change your way of thinking so as to change your world =)
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