Another venting post for me. What I mean is that occasionally,
I need to speak bluntly and honestly. I teach people how to find their
happiness yet right now at this moment I am bland in emotion. Sometimes I get burned
out from carrying people. I go to work most of my office is unhappy and or
complaining about something in their lives. On the way to work I see people
angry ready to jump out of their cards just because someone made a lane change
in a lane that is merging anyway.
I open social media to post positive captions and pictures
only to see most of the content people are putting out is negative passive aggressive
in nature. I open my phone to glance at the days news just in case a meteor is
on its way and see more negative articles than anything positive. Employees come
to me with ridiculous excuses for failing and not showing up or being late. This
gets to me sometimes. And I teach “you cannot control the external, but you can
control the perception of your environment” what the fuck is that all about. I need
to stop teaching that bullshit. I need to stop teaching about gratitude and
happiness. How I should always feel happy and positive when the world around me
is falling apart.
The truth is I am a sad and my heart bleeds that I cannot
reach everyone. I can only love and find one person that I might be able to
help. Do I feel these things I just articulated? Yes, for sure and more! But I choose
to show more love when I get this buried in shit from the world. It is worth
it. I do get criticized. People avoid me. I stop relations with people that are
too negative for my taste. I notice I do not get invited to certain functions
because I make people uncomfortable because they feel guilty when I stand for
their opposite feeling. I am ok with that.
I choose to be happy. I choose to be positive. I am a
recovering asshole and idiot, so I can spot them a mile away. I deal with them every
day. I laugh in their face when they think they are fooling me taking advantage
of my kindness and mistaking it for my weakness. I love them. I share with them
my compassion because I know even though they are pieces of shit I know they
are in pain and are experiencing loneliness and insecurity, fear and a sense of
loss and abandonment.
I do this for no other reason or agenda other than not
giving up on someone that might see what I am trying to share. I’ll take a 1
out of 10 ratios. Ill take the risk. I show love. Is it easy? NO! but you
adjust and move forward.
Do you realize you are unhappy and waking up making the same
decisions you do every day? Are you having difficulties looking in the mirror? Change
your daily actions. Try waking up happy that you are alive. Look for
opportunities to help others and share your happiness. There are so many people
that are in a desperate situation screaming for attention or just help. Help with
their state of mind. Help with wanting to learn how to function happily.
Reach out to someone and love them. To love someone, the
reality is you must love yourself. To love yourself you must accept yourself as
you are in that moment. Once you accept yourself a profound change will begin
to take place. You can now embark on a better journey and love waking up again
as you did when you were a child looking for new adventures.
The following are steps towards this path and the principles
that will help you get there.
1) Acceptance – Be happy with who you are in the present
moment
2) Perception – change the way you see everything &
everyone around you
3) Clarity – Awareness of 1 & 2 will give you clarity
4) Learning – With clarity you will have an open mind to
learn how to be happy
5) Practicing – Once you have the tools you can now practice
happiness
The Path to Happiness
Everyone wakes up the same, you open your eyes and what you see is what you get. Our perceptions is where we differ. We see the world that we decide to see from the time we wake up. There are of course some drastic differences in the human conditon where experiences are quite different. Let us address the folks that have a physical control of their life. The people that have the freedom to read this post.
If you wake up and open your eyes complaining from the get go about where you are in life then you shouldnt be complaining at the end of the day when your day is over about how screwed up your life is. You woke up pissed off, bitching and moaning from the time you woke up. You have no right to complain.
We wake up and we have another chance from yesterdays failure or challenge. We have the opportunity to make our life better and right our wrongs. Whether you believe this is a truth or not, it is a fact that we wake the same. We open our eyes and have a choice to change the perception as simple as a decision.
We all have a path to take in life towards our final destination. Death. We will all arrive there eventually. What is the legacy you will leave behind. The decision you make about your perception in life will dictate how that legacy will look like. Everyday we have challenges that make us stronger or weaker depending on the perception we take about it.
What does that path look like for you? Are you wasting time everyday waking up to the same belief system that does not serve you? Are you stuck in a mindset full of daily negative rituals teaching you about life as a sad truth or are you waking up looking forwards towards the beautiful experiences that help you learn and thrive?