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A topic I get asked about a lot – a view I have found in my difficult life that helps & answers a lot of questions. Sorry for the hollering kids outside, I made this in the afternoon +Love Ysabella

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Some time ago, somebody said to me that they had a very mundane task that needed doing and they wondered if  I wouldn’t mind helping out and being bored for a day. They had a peak in their workload and so it was an urgent, though rather mundane job (I won’t go into the details here) and they would even pay me for the privilege. As money was involved, I agreed and turned up the next morning along with a few other guys who had also been conned… I mean, who had also volunteered their efforts for the day.

During a break, I was talking to one of the other people whom I was working alongside and he started to complain about how boring the job was. Apparently he done this once before, though that time it had lasted a couple of weeks, but it drove him nuts and he left before the job was finished because he couldn’t stand the boredom any longer. Nevertheless, today he was back again. It might have been because he needed the money, or perhaps he thought it would be different this time because it was only for the one day. I don’t know and I never asked.

The trouble was that after I had spent the break listening to this guy complaining, I found myself feeling bored as well and looking at the clock and waiting for home-time.  It was amazing at how the clock now seemed to move so slowly. Yet I had not felt bored previously; I had simply ‘switched off’ as I completed the mundane task. I lost myself in thought and didn’t notice the passing of time at all. I even had to be reminded when it was time for the break. If nobody had said anything, I would probably still be there working in a trance-like state and lost in thought.

With that realisation, I laughed at myself and gave thanks that I was working. I gave thanks for the money I was going to get and for the fact that I was there. I even gave thanks for the fact that I was able to help someone resolve their problem caused by the peak in their workload.

One of the other guys asked me what I was smiling about and I said, “Oh, I am just enjoying being here”, which I am certain was not exactly what he was expecting me to say. He laughed and asked me, “What’s your secret?” So I told him that happiness does not come from what I do or where I am. It comes from inside. So many people say they’ll be happy when something or other happens, when they win the lottery, go on holiday, get a new job or whatever. Yet they are just putting off being happy. Why wait when you can have happiness now?

The secret is to be grateful for everything in your life right now. Show gratitude for everything, whether it is just that you can read this post, that you are privileged enough to have internet access. Perhaps you can be grateful for you current level of fitness or simply that you are alive. Enjoy everything and be thankful. If you have problems, be thankful for them too because each one gives you the opportunity to learn and to grow.

As you do this, you will notice a significant improvement in your self-esteem and confidence. And everyone else will notice it too.

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George Lopez “self-esteem”

This is a story I came across a while ago. I thought that it was worth repeating.

John is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, ‘If I were any better, I would be twins!’

He was a natural motivator.

If an employee was having a bad day, John was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.

Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up and asked him, ‘I don’t get it!

You can’t be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?’

He replied, ‘Each morning I wake up and say to myself, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or … you can choose to be in a bad mood

I choose to be in a good mood.’

Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or…I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it.

Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or… I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life.

‘Yeah, right, it’s not that easy,’ I protested.

‘Yes, it is,’ he said. ‘Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people affect your mood.

You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It’s your choice how you live your life.’

I reflected on what he said. Soon hereafter, I left the Tower Industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it.

Several years later, I heard that he was involved in a serious accident, falling some 60 feet from a communications tower.

After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, he was released from the hospital with rods placed in his back.

I saw him about six months after the accident.

When I asked him how he was, he replied, ‘If I were any better, I’d be twins…Wanna see my scars?’

I declined to see his wounds, but I did ask him what had gone through his mind as the accident took place.

‘The first thing that went through my mind was the well-being of my soon-to-be born daughter,’ he replied. ‘Then, as I lay on the ground, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or…I could choose to die. I chose to live.’

‘Weren’t you scared? Did you lose consciousness?’ I asked

He continued, ‘..the paramedics were great.

They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the ER and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read ‘he’s a dead man’. I knew I needed to take action.’

‘What did you do?’ I asked.

‘Well, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at me,’ said John. ‘She asked if I was allergic to anything ‘Yes, I replied.’ The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled, ‘Gravity’.’

Over their laughter, I told them, ‘I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead.’

He lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude… I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully.

Attitude, after all, is everything.

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.’ Matthew 6:34.

After all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.