Positive People (Part 4)

We all have struggles and suffer on the inside. 

Every day:

-We worry and fret.

-We procrastinate or move backward.

-We feel overwhelmed or stressed.

-We feel angry or frustrated.

-We feel loneliness or sad.

-We don’t feel good enough to please ourselves let alone please anyone else.

-We wish we were thinner, smaller, or could fit into yesterday's fashions.

-We wish we had more money or more stuff.

-We wish our jobs were different or the results meant more.

-We wish our relationships were different or had stronger meanings

-We think everything in life should be easier instead of getting harder the longer we live.

Most of our struggles are self-created.  They are real, only because we have created them in our minds.  We have attached ourselves to certain ideals and fantasies about how life has to be in order to be good enough for us or us good enough for it.

We worry because things might not turn out how we expect.  We procrastinate because we fear discomfort and failure.  We feel overwhelmed because we think we should be further along than we are.  We feel angry because life should not be this way, but it’s all in our heads.

It doesn’t have to be this way.  At least not anymore. If you think better, then you can live better.  This is a choice only you can make.

Bring your attention to the present moment.  Focus on what’s here with you now. Don’t judge things against what they should be; just accept what they actually are.  Because once you accept reality, only then can you gradually improve it and change the negative into a positive.

See life as it is, without all the ideals and fantasies you’ve been preoccupied with.  Let go of all of those stressful distractions, and just experience this moment.

This moment is good enough as it is.  Just focus on it.  Be totally positive in it. You can go back to fretting about everything else in a minute.