Are good things
going to happen to you in your life? Are
some not so good things going to happen to you in your life? Are good things to going to happen to people
you don’t know? Are some not so good
things going to happen to people you don’t know? Of course the answer to all those questions
is a resounding, yes. The more difficult
question is why some of us tend to give more focus and attention on the not so
good things than on the good ones.
I have my own
theory as to why. I think many people
will acknowledge good things and enjoy them as they occur. But once the euphoria of enjoying that event,
situation, win fall, etc surpasses some tend to place that memory away and move
on. They move on and wait for that next
good moment to occur. They listen to
that inner voice telling them that yes that was good but now it’s time to get
back to reality.
Along the way to that
next good thing some not so good things will likely happen. Those not so good things will catch that
person’s attention. Even if that not so
good thing doesn’t happen to them personally, it won’t be difficult in today’s
media to see something not so good that has happened. Once it has their attention they will analyze
it and wonder why it happened. They will
wonder if it can happen again. They will
discuss it with their friends. They will
research it on the internet. They will
watch the local news to see the coverage of it.
They will focus a lot of their attention on it.
Funny thing is
when the good thing happens they often don’t do half of those things listed
above. Why is that? I believe it’s because of fear. A large number of people let fear play an
important role in their lives. I’m not
talking about the run and scream at the top of your lungs fear. I’m talking about the type of fear that we
mask as protection. We want to protect
ourselves or someone we know from the not so good things. Some believe if we don’t put in that type of
energy on the not so good things we will ultimately not be as protected as we
could be.
Now think what if
we replaced that fear with faith. I believe
we would flip the process. We would now
do all of the work for the good thing because we would have faith that it would
happen again. We would analyze why it
happened. We would talk to our friends
and neighbors about it. We would
research and learn all we could about it on the internet. We would do all of this in an effort to make
sure it happened again. We would have
faith that we could make it happen again.
When the not so
good thing happened we would acknowledge that it happened. We would feel some emotion about it when we
first learned about it happening. Once
that emotion wore off we would put it in our memory and move on. We would have faith that even if/when
something not so good happens again we’ll be fine. We would not look for things that are not so good to
happen but we would just let them happen when they do. Our faith would serve as our protection.
What a wonderful
change that would be. If you are one of
the people I described above, think about the possible results if you
implemented this change. If this is
already your process then I applaud you.
This is just a little reminder that the ball is in your court. You can make this change anytime you want to
and sustain it as long as you want to.
After all fear and faith are on the same scale just at opposite
ends. Fear itself is just a lack of
faith. So move down the scale and
element the lack. The results will be
well worth the effort.
Drew
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