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Challenges Not Problems
Life is life. You really have no control over anything except most of what goes on with you. Granted, mayhem and health concerns aside, you have control over your own self, even though it may not seem like it sometimes.
I am not heartless. It was many years before I realized this. If somebody had sat me down as a 16-year-old, I could have avoided a lot of issues.
Also, it is a concept that takes more than a day to understand because you are going against a system that has long held a dog-eat-dog view.
So, let’s talk about problems. Try to think of them as challenges. Challenges that you work to overcome. Some people call them life lessons.
How do you do this?
Well, if you figure we are alive to learn as much as we can and to come out on the other end still as happy and as easily pleased as when we were two years old, then an optimistic outlook is called for. I know it is difficult, but if you keep reminding yourself that all is not doom and gloom, then you set into play the universal laws of manifestation. I’m not talking about money, though that certainly can be ascribed to this concept. I am talking about laws of manifestation.
I’m talking about being in a good mood.
Now, we’ve pretty much all heard the saying, “Don’t rain on my parade.” This would…
