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Think Your Life Isn’t Working Out? Think Again.
At what point will you stop taking the small things for granted in the big scheme of things?
Think you don’t?
Well, I’m going to prove that you do.
Tell me three things that went your way today. An unorthodox question, I know. Because the ordinary everyday things are expected to go right.
The car is expected to start.
You expect to wake up the next morning.
You expect to have a job to go to.
You expect to have your health.
And still, day after day, month after month, and year after year, given some hiccups, you’ve had all these work in your favor and probably more.
So what exactly in your life isn’t working out?
We see tragedy on the news and social media everyday. People whose lives are changed forever.
Be thankful it wasn’t you or someone close.
Now, could things be better? Sure. There’s always room for improvement.
Don’t be so jaded by the ordinary day to day things going right, that you lose appreciation for them. Gratitude leads to happiness. And if you can’t find gratitude for your blessings now matter how small, then in the words of The Angry Therapist, you’re a “miserable f*ck”, and I can’t help you.
If you’re life isn’t going how you want its due to two things: 1) You don’t know what you want, or 2) You’re failing to start right now with what you have.
For things to begin working you have to begin working.
Stop making excuses and give it a try. And it’ll be easier next time asked, to say three things that are going your way.
