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How would you feel if over the course of two days, you poured your heart and soul into writing a piece for your blog that you thought could really help people improve the way they feel in their lives, only to accidentally lean on the alt key on your keyboard and have the whole two days worth of work vanish from your screen forever ? I have to be honest, when this happened to me this morning my first thought was not a good one, but I quickly glanced up, read the title on my screen and took my advice. Funny thing, the 1500 words in the body of the blog post had disappeared but the title stayed intact. I guess it was the Universe testing me yet again.
The way we think and feel about things has a direct impact not only on how things look to us but how we ultimately feel. One of my favorite Wayne Dyer quotes is “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at Change”, nothing could be more true. But as I thought about it, the same could be said for the way we feel about things, If you change the way you feel about things or events in your life, the way you feel will change. When I lost my 1500 word blog post this morning, I could have felt terrible about losing all that work, instead I chose to feel like there was a positive reason for losing that work. Had I chosen to feel terrible, I could have spent the whole day angry, upset and taking out my feelings on the world instead, I feel great, I figured out a way to prevent losing work like that in the future and I am taking a different, more refined approach to getting my real message across to you in this version 2.0 of this blog post.
All of us can feel great 100% of the time, it’s a choice we make as each of us are totally responsible for the lives we create. I have seen great days turn into lousy days just because a friend or family member chose to feel angry about something that was totally a waste of time. Road Rage in particular is one of those things, whether I am riding with people, listening to people on cell phones or driving myself it never fails that when someone else does something stupid on the road, it causes most people to get angry, and that anger usually burns up a good hour or two of what could have been fun and happy time. I used to be incredibly guilty of the road rage thing, so much so that I would not only get angry, I would transform into a stalker who had to show that person how wrong they were for their lousy driving decision. Today, I keep in my mind, another Wayne Dyer quote that I repeat to myself as I take an extra breath when these situations on the road happen “When faced with being right or kind always choose kindness”. Repeating that quote to yourself and choosing kindness makes you feel totally different then choosing “Right and Anger“.
The way you feel and this “KNOWING” thing I always talk about. Think about times in your life when you were uncertain about something, you were anxious, stressed, worried and maybe even feeling a little sick not knowing what the outcome would be. Then think about times in your life when you knew the outcome of something was going to be exactly what you expected, you were happy, satisfied, joyful and confident. Now think about how you would rather feel, Happy or anxious, Satisfied or stressed, Joyful or worried. Think the choice is easy, and everyday you are faced with that same choice, only you can decide how you feel, no one else can make you feel sad, it is your reaction to what someone else has said or done that makes you sad or happy. You are in complete control, and once you absolutely “KNOW” you are in complete control, you never have reason to not feel great 100% of the time.
Over the past 5 years when I lost my way from always “KNOWING” to questioning whether I could do it, my health suffered, my family suffered, I suffered, I wasn’t happy and I thought that what was happening in my world was making me unhappy. But, I was creating my world and was choosing to feel unhappy about what I created. For the first 46 years of my life, I was very good at creating exactly what I wanted and the only time I didn’t feel great was when I slipped up and thought the wrong way. Let me give you a little insight into what I am talking about. Throughout my life I have constantly heard people talk about me as being lucky, always being in the right place at the right time, that everything I touched turned to gold. When I heard those things, I always told myself those people were right but I knew that I was creating my luck, and everything that went with it by choosing the right thoughts. When I slipped into the dark days of the past 5 years, I started thinking that maybe it was just luck and that my luck couldn’t continue since things had been so good. I would sit through meetings with people who would tell me that I am too positive, too optimistic and that I have to be honest with myself, that I have to get real. I started to believe those people and what they were saying for no good reason. After all, my life went just as I had planned it for the first 46 years, it wasn’t until I started listening to people tell me that I wasn’t who I thought I was that things changed. The most important thing to understand is that the people who told me these things weren’t responsible for my downfall nor do I believe they had any ill intent, they just didn’t understand themselves the power of “KNOWING” that I had come to master over the prior 46 years. I was completely responsible for the past 5 years, I created it and I own it. The biggest and most valuable lesson to date in my life is realizing exactly what happened the last 5 years. The Universe has its way of providing lessons and clues for you along the way, you just have to understand and learn along the way.
Now that you know how to make yourself feel great all the time, why not give this “KNOWING” thing a try ? Let’s do this together, as I mentioned in my last post, this stuff is contagious and it is fun when we can all share actual experiences with these life creation ideas. I know I am going to have another incredible day, I know things are going to fall into place with several different projects I have in the works, I know I am going to lose some more weight today and feel even better than I did at 40 when I was in the best shape of my life. What do you know ? Get out a piece of paper and right down the things you know and see how you feel. Change the way you feel about things, Know the things you feel good about are yours and the way you feel will change for the better.
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