After my scary appearance two weeks ago due to my Bell's Palsy 'episode' - I am practically back to normal.
Of course - I KNEW that I would be one of the 50% who go back to normal within the first month!
A little bit of application of what I have been learning about creating the life I REALLY want helped, of course.
And THAT'S a major key to YOUR (continuing) happiness and success.
YOU should be aiming to create the life that YOU want.
Not the life that other people tell you that you SHOULD be aspiring to.
Not the life that YOU believe that you SHOULD be aiming for.
Nope.
Just the life that makes you feel, well, GOOD!
One of the biggest lessons I've learned - especially over the last few months - is that I am in sole control of how I REACT to other people and events.
I can let the latest scaremongering about the (remote) possibility of being sued for creating mp3 files ruin my day - or I can just get on with what I was doing anyway.
(Which - generally at the moment is watching the Wimbledon Tennis Tournament with my feet up whilst the landscapers toil away in 90 degree heat in my garden!)
I can let the latest moan about whatever a member of my family has or hasn't done make me mad - or I can just let them get on with it and not let the negative talk infect MY thoughts.
It's easy to REACT to other people and situations.
It's so much more difficult to be in CONTROL of what YOU are thinking, doing, and behaving - irrespective of what other people are saying or doing.
The challenge for YOU is to get into your own little 'world' of focusing on what YOU really want for YOURSELF - because, after all - nobody else understands what makes YOU really happy.
Of course - the situation you are currently in might not inspire any particular good-feelings for you.
But I bet that you can LEARN something about what makes you HAPPY by being there!
It's easy to wish your life away - to another job, another relationship, another card paid off, a long-term holiday.
Yet - unless you find something to be happy about NOW - right this moment - then all you are going to do is get more of the same.
Two hours of feeling sorry for yourself at work will NEVER result in you getting a better, more challenging role - that I can guarantee.
The people that make the most of their lives aren't always the ones who drive fast cars, have a massive house with a swimming pool and tennis court.
Quite often - these people are working 100-hour weeks - mortgaged up to their eyeballs - trying to project an image of affluence to other people.
Yet inside - they are literally wasting their lives away.
Happiness (and ultimately success - however you define it) is only the result of a continual process of feeling GOOD about who you are, what you are doing, and why you are doing it.
THAT certainly can't be measured in numbers, property, or awards.
Yet - it's THE most powerful and inspiring thing there is.
YOU can't expect to be happy in your FUTURE when you constantly sit in a place of MISERY now.
Life doesn't work like that.
That's why you can't feel miserable or angry if you are SMILING (properly).
Try it - and you'll see what I mean!
Me - I've just got both sides of MY smile back - and, after having some weeks with only one side of it - I'm glad that, because of that, I can SEE for myself how feeling good about yourself NOW absolutely impacts on how good YOU will feel about yourself in the FUTURE.
Now - back to feeling good about myself!
Posted by vurnumg
