Tag: bad things

It will pass

Posted on by philipdodson

Whenever we feel down, or things are not going our way, or someone is unkind to us, or whatever that is affecting us in a negative way, I am increasingly learning in life to let it go.

Sure the first reaction is to feel sorry for ourselves or perhaps blame bad luck or others. We feel sometimes that the current bad situation will last forever.

The moment we decide to let it go, to not worry about it, to place some perspective and to realise it will pass, it always does, that is when slowly, but surely, almost like magic, things start to go our way.

The moment we stop resistance in life, that is the moment that the skies clear, the gloom lifts and the universe works with us to guide us to things that we could not previously see in our doom and gloom.

There is an amazing life for us all if we choose.

Things that never happen

Posted on by philipdodson

We spend a good deal of our energy and thought time on outcomes.

By default, we look at the worst possible outcomes and then work towards more positive ones.

Here’s an interesting thing, most of the worst outcomes, and they are often worse than apocalyptic, never happen, nor do the really bad ones, the OMG scary shit ones and so on.

How many of the worst things you’ve imagined, planned for, worried about, panicked about, maybe even lost sleep over has happened in the last day, the last week, the last month, the last year or during your entire life? I’m guessing less than a handful, in fact, maybe 1 or 2.

How much time have we wasted worrying about them? Maybe an hour a day? That’s as much as 29,000 hours over a lifetime or 1,216 or about 3 years!!

Optimism, and setting a default of only thinking about the best outcomes, will not only massively improve our well-being, chance of success and day-to-day lives, it would give us 3 years back to be able to deal with anyone of the handful of really, really, really shit things that might happen in your life.

If you made a list of the things that you’ve imagined but have never actually happened, they would make the world’s biggest book, look like a short poem.

Think best possible outcomes first.