Who are you looking at? So often we end up looking outside of ourselves rather than inside of ourselves. This causes us to think and say things like ~ I’ll be happy when my sweetie gives me more attention. I’ll be happy when they stop doing that. I’ll be happy when I’m making more money. […]
I believe in you
I believe in you Most people have learned to not believe in themselves. And, they learned this by accident through life experiences (no one sets out to not believe in themselves). Next time you catch yourself in this frame of mind, sit down quietly for a couple of minutes and imagine person after person telling […]
Unpayable parking ticket
But what about me
But what about me The “what about me” attitude is so common in our world. Any time that we are in this thinking, we are in scarcity thinking. When we also look out for the interests of others, we automatically embrace abundance. Much Love, Jonathan Help me out please ~ if this Daily Dose spoke […]
Tours of meaning
Tours of meaning In Shawn Achor’s new book, Big Potential, he tells the story of how he was doing a training with the White House staff towards the end of the Obama Administration. The staff members were burned out, tired, and facing the uncertainty of what comes next because the new President (regardless of who […]
Don’t make the impersonal personal
Don’t make the impersonal personal When someone treats us poorly, it is very easy to take that personally. Most of the time though, it isn’t personal. That’s just how that person does life. If they weren’t treating us poorly, they’d be treating someone else poorly. It just seems personal because we are there and […]
Dealing with circumstances
Dealing with circumstances We all get to deal with unpleasant circumstances from time to time. However, we have a choice as to how we deal with these circumstances. We can go into a victim mode and lament about how unfair it is that this happened to me. This path has lots of pain and suffering […]
Asking and getting
Correction or punishment
Correction or punishment Most of us, if not all of us, have experienced punishment in our lives. The message was clear – we were bad or wrong and needed to be punished. And, a lot of this probably happened in childhood which served to condition us towards a punishment viewpoint. This can lead to us […]
Tarnished vs broken
Tarnished vs broken A very common trap that people fall into is thinking that they are bad or wrong or broken or need to be fixed. This means that they believe that something is wrong with them at a fundamental level of their being. This perspective is inaccurate and very damaging. Imagine a silver platter […]