Good morning, my friends.
We’ve all done it – compared ourselves to someone successful as a means of beating ourselves up. You want that life, that look, that luck.
The problem is, it’s empty calories and wasted time. It draws us no closer to our goals or our greatness.
Here are five ways to beat the comparison game and get back on your path.
Have a beautiful Wednesday!
Ray
Good morning, my friends. It may not seem like it some days, but it’s true. It’s a gift an honor to be you. You’re not just unique in your family or your circle. You’re unique in all this universe. Pretty darn cool, when you think about it!
All the universe asks in return is that you be you to the best of your ability.
This affirmation reminds you to accept the areas where work remains and accentuate the areas where you excel. It reminds you that opportunities are in front of you, but you must choose to seize them.
More than anything today, I’m here to remind you, in case no one else does, you’re awesome!
Keep putting your mind on your side!
Ray
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There! Did you see it? There’s a miracle in progress. Where? Everywhere you look. The ants are building ant hills. Your heart is beating, beating, beating. The season is effortlessly changing again. The Earth goes around the Sun, as the Sun goes around the center of the galaxy. Everywhere you look, there’s a miracle.
You’ve heard the expression, “Don’t take your eye off the ball”. I think we should amend that to, “Don’t take your eye off the miracle.”
The moment you take your eye off the miracle, you begin to get into trouble. You start seeing “us” and “them”, “enough” and “not enough”, “future” and “past”, and you worry about all of it. Your worry turns into a soup of negative internal emotions that spill out into your world as unhappiness, anger, hatred, and even violence.
None of this is possible when you have your eye on the miracle. For in that vision of the world, you see how rare, precious, and amazing you are. You see how rare, precious and amazing everyone and everything around you is. We are all survivors, here in this place and time against overwhelming odds. Yet, here making our stand, being who we came here to be, and contributing our own uniqueness to the miracle.
So, when the moment gets you down today, remember the miracle. When you’re tempted fall into negativity and doubt, remember the miracle. It’s always right there, completely self-evident in every moment, if only you’ll look.
Follow your bliss. Experience your bliss. Become your bliss.
RAY
Good evening, my friends. There was a fantastic book released back in the early 1990s titled Happiness Is A Choice by Barry Neil Kaufmann.
Since reading that book, it’s always stuck in my mind that this is a fundamental truth of life.
Some angrily rail against this idea, claiming that it’s a form blaming the victim. That’s only true if you plan to remain forever a victim in your life.
The idea that we can choose the feeling or the attitude is an absolute freedom we have over our circumstances.
In his seminal work, “Man’s Search for Meaning,” Viktor Frankl wrote:
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
Being a Holocaust survivor, Frankl realized the power to choose your attitude despite life’s harshest and most unjust experiences.
Neither he nor I deny that we are sometimes victimized by life’s vicissitudes. Rather that is was one of our true superpowers that we need not cede our right to be happy the circumstances around us.
Here are 10 ways to choose happiness every day.
Live by these principles and I guarantee you, you’ll be able to choose happiness over and over again.
Wherever you are on your journey, remember you are awesome!
Ray
Just in case no one else has reminded you today, you are awesome!
Ray
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