Going through a challenging time — because you took a risk in love or career – and it didn’t turn out as you wanted?
Allow yourself to feel proud — for risking in the first place —and thereby being fully in your life — getting to feel so many passionate feelings and thinking new/interesting thoughts which can empower you to grow.
Aristotle said it well when he said:
“We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.”
TRANSLATION:
Life has ebbs and flows. There’s no such thing as endless flow. Unfortunately life can sometimes feel like ebb, ebb, ebb, brief-flash-of-flow, more ebb, ebb, ebb.
But every ebb always offers the opportunity to think a new thought flavor and feel a new emotion flavor!
The more varied the flavors of life you get to taste, the more interesting, layered, educated, self-developed, world-experienced and mightier you will be!
YOUR ASSIGNMENT:
If your feeling challenged from the challenge you took – thereby tempted to think negative thoughts — stop and ask yourself: “Are these thoughts leading me forwards to the happier life I want —or backwards to making me feel negative, depressed and stuck?” Consciously choose thoughts which move you forwards! Use this word “forwards” as your mantra every time a negative belief enters your head!
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