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If it feels like hard work

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If something you are doing, or a relationship/friendship, in fact anything, if it feels like hard work, forced or it does not come naturally, then it’s not worth continuing.

If it feels like an effort, if it feels like you’re the one who’s trying and not the other, if your work feels like a struggle, if whatever you are doing just feels like a challenge, it’s because it is not right.

The things, people or activities we love never feel like hard work if they are truly right. Loving something or someone is natural thing, a joy, and never a struggle. You want to do it more than anything else.

Once you find the right thing, person, activity, or work, yes you have to value it, cherish, nurture and spend time.However, it will never be a burden or a chore, it will never drain your energy.

Yet so many spend their lives fighting what they love to continue the struggle.

Don’t struggle, be with people you love, do things that are a joy.

Do what comes instinctively and naturally.

We think our own future

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The thoughts that we have in our heads are what determines our beliefs, actions and the outcome of those actions.

If think good things about ourselves or are thinking positively about an action, then we believe good things, that then are more likely to result in good actions and good outcomes.

Of course, there are external factors that we do not control, but they are always there and we can’t change what others may or may not do.

The reality is, we decide what future we will have, by the thoughts that we have. We are taught to fear and worry, think of the worst outcome by default.

What if you reversed that and unlearnt? What if we learnt the habit of thinking about the best outcome first? What if we choose to believe that we can create that best outcome? Think about it, we can think whatever we want, yet we choose to think bad things first?

It is all habit, and habits can be changed by doing the different behaviour regularly enough for the new habit to form.

So what future are you currently thinking up for you? How could you change that thinking to create the future you really want? Just start now, by changing your thinking and beliefs. Think good first, bad might happen, but until it does, no point in thinking about it. Normally, for almost any situation, we deal with bad when it comes up anyway.

Think up whatever future you want.