Wednesday 14th March 2018
Morning Vibes With Dr. Jerry - the First
Hello and welcome to
#MorningVibesWithDrJerryTheFirst-Episode 182
Title: 7 Things to
Remember When Life Gets Rough (and You Feel Drained)
Oftentimes things have to go wrong in
order to go right.
In fact,
if the road you’re traveling on is all smooth without bumps and curves and
roundabout, it is very likely that you are on the wrong road. Some part
of you knows this is true. Nevertheless, when life gets especially rough,
it can be hard to remember.
You may not know this but I have dealt with
several severe hardships myself including the sudden compulsory retirement, the
sudden death of my parents, betrayal from my sibling and other trusted
relatives, the loss of a best friend, abandonment by friends.
These
experiences were brutal. Each of them, naturally, knocked me down and
kept me down for a while.
But when
my time of mourning was over after each
tragedy, I pressed forward, stronger, and with a greater understanding and
respect for life.
Truth be told, we all experience hard times, and
we all get through them eventually. But some of us get through them more
easily than others. What’s the secret? Most of it has to do with
mindset.
So here
are seven important things to keep in mind when life gets rough:
1. These hard times are making you stronger and
smarter. –
It’s
usually the deepest pain that empowers you to grow to your full
potential. It’s the scary, stressful choices that end up being the most
worthwhile.
Without pain, there would be no
change.
But
remember, pain, just like everything in life, is meant to be learned from and
then released.
2. You are not a helpless victim. –
You are
the creator of your own experience.
Yes, it
is unfortunate that sometimes bad things happen to the best of people.
Life can be unfair, unkind and
unjust.
However,
being stuck in a victim mentality does not nurture your ability to move onward
and upward.
You’ve
got to stand back up and take positive steps to heal and grow.
3. There is no such thing as failure (only
important lessons learned). –
You
should just wipe the word “failure” right out of your vocabulary.
All great
people who have ever achieved anything have “failed” over and over.
In fact,
Thomas Edison once said, “I never once failed at inventing the light bulb, I
just found 999 ways that it didn’t work at first.”
Take your
so-called failures and learn something from them. Learn how to do it
better next time.
4. If you don’t get something you want, it just
means something better is waiting. –
This is
hard to believe sometimes, I know. But it’s true.
Oftentimes,
when you look back at your life you will be able to see why it was actually
good that something didn’t work out.
Maybe the
job you didn’t get would have made you spend more time away from your family,
but the job you did get was more flexible.
Just have faith that everything
happens for a reason.
It may
not be obvious at first, but it will make sense eventually.
5. Things can and will change. –
“And this
too shall pass” is one of my favorite sayings.
When we
are stuck in a bad situation, it may seem there is no way out. We think
nothing will ever change. But guess what? It will!
Nothing is permanent.
So get
out of the habit of thinking that things will always be this way. They
won’t.
But,
remember, you do need to take some sort of action for things to change.
It won’t magically happen all on its own.
6. If you want things to
change now, you need to start by changing yourself. –
Your outer world is a reflection of
your inner world.
Do you
know people whose lives are unnecessarily chaotic and stressful? And
isn’t their situation largely because they feel chaotic inside? Yes, it
is.
We like
to think that changing our external circumstances will change us. But we
have it backwards – we need to change ourselves first before our circumstances
will begin to change.
7. Anything
is possible going forward. –
Miracles happen every day.
Really,
they do! I wish I had enough space in this email to write about all the
miraculous things that have happened to people I know – from healing stage 4
pancreatic cancer to having their soul mate appear out of nowhere in the most
unlikely place.
Trust me:
it happens all the time.
You just
need to believe it does.
Once you
do, you’re halfway there.
And of course, if you're struggling with any of
this, know that you are not alone.
Many of
us are right there with you, working hard to feel better, think more clearly,
and get our lives back on track.
Until I come your way
again, this is #MorningVibesWithDrJerryTheFirst
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