Saturday, December 11, 2010

2 FOR THE ROAD

These last two years have been pretty rough for your boy but finally, brighter days are ahead. Through all the ups and mostly downs that I have recently experienced, two philosophies help me survive:

1.REMAIN POSITIVE – No matter the trials and tribulations that you experience. No matter how often bad luck seems to find you. No matter how rough things get and how bleak the future seems. REMAIN POSITIVE. See, being negative accomplishes nothing. To spend your time dwelling on something that has already happened and/or a situation that you can’t change is pointless. It is wasted energy. Ask yourself, “what has being negative done for me? What has it help me accomplish?” Instead, spend your time coming up with ways to make the best out of what you have. Acknowledge the reality of your situation and try your best to take lemons and make lemonade. By always remaining positive, you will find that you are consistently in better moods and are much happier as a person despite your situation. Most importantly, thinking positive usually manifests itself into thinking about solutions and how you can take advantage of what's in front you.

2.BE ACCOUNTABLE – Always and I mean always take FULL RESPONSIBLITY for your situation. It doesn’t matter who else is to blame. If you think hard enough and long enough, you will always find that you could have done something differently to avoid your current predicament. As a matter of fact, don’t even worry about who else is at fault. Why? Because it doesn’t matter. It’s your situation, not theirs. Blaming someone else just allows you to feel sorry for yourself. It allows you to turn yourself into a victim. Then you start to think that there was nothing you could have done differently. And this way of thinking has zero benefit to you. The problem with that kind of thinking is that you have unconsciously given up control of your life. No one should have the power to decide how YOUR life is going to play out but you. Your response to a situation is FAR MORE IMPORTANT than the situation itself. No one can make you do anything. No one determines how you feel but you. TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE, YOUR ACTIONS, AND YOUR EMOTIONS. Be the soul controller of your life and you’ll find that you will experience more positives than negatives.