A very wise man once said, although I argued with him about it for quite some time, “Everything is a matter of perception.” I argued with him because I believed, at the time, that some things were not open to interpretation; that they weren’t open to perception; that they simply were. While I still believe there are some things that are inviolable – i.e. the sun rises in the east – I realize that 99% of everything is a matter of perception.
How we perceive things and how we react to them very much determines whether we have a positive or negative outlook; whether we feel challenged or defeated. Those outlooks can also be called beliefs and I’d like to take a look at a few of them and how they can impact your day by impacting your outlook.
“I am a victim of circumstance.” Virtually all of us can look back at some experience in our life and remember a time when it seemed like everything was working against us. Some of you reading this remember those times easily and how defeated you might have felt. Others of you may have taken a different approach and thought, “I create my own reality; these challenges will not defeat me.”
At those times, when the challenges and circumstances built up to the point of almost intolerance, you might have thought, “Life happens to me.” The truth is that life happens to all of us, but some of us choose to believe that life, no matter how great or how challenging, is a blessing we should cherish. That is they think “Life happens for me,” rather than thinking that life somehow is against them.
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The remainder of this essay can be found in the book “Farther Down The Road”
Farther Down the Road – Where does your life’s road lead?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CTJ1B2QR
