Who Knows What You're On To

When things seem bad, a lot of us tend to get real down and wonder how we got ourselves in this mess in the first place.

But perhaps this is backwards. Perhaps we should be spending more time looking at where we may be going.

A lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people, but you can't deny the growth that these oppourtunities offer.

Perhaps you lose your job. You lose your house. Maybe you lose a spouse through divorce or death. All terrible things, all chances for growth, however unwilling we may be to see these chances when we are in the thick of it.

Always try to progressively imagine yourself on the road to the life you've always wanted. In fact, go as far as you can to imagine that you already do have it. In fact, you've ALWAYS WANTED to live in a house with leaky faucets and a cockroach problem! You've never imagined anything better.

This, along with practicing daily gratitude, even for things as simple as, "I'm so grateful that I had pancakes for breakfast," when it's raining and you're late for work and your dejected-feeling mother is calling and you KNOW that you're never going to be able to pay off that electricity bill in time, NO WAY, ect... etc... 

Try and find all the best things about any given moment, and you'll soon realize just how silly and impermanent and unimportant it is to be sad or angry.