There is a song from Monty Pythons “Life of Brian“ – “Always look on the Bright Side of Life.” If you look and read through the lyrics for the song it comes down to this; no matter what is going on look for the bright side of life. Mercy, sometimes it is so hard to do.
Your job creates stress, family only hears what they want to, your friend flakes out on you. It’s hard, it’s even harder to find the bright side. Some might call it being Pollyanna, others might say that the glass is half full.
They say if you do something for 14 days it will become habit; if you do that same thing for 28 days it becomes muscle memory. Just like an athlete trains every day and puts in the time to get better and better. We need to do this we our thoughts. We need to practice looking for the bright side of thing’s, figuring out that our jar is half full rather than half empty.
Once we start looking at our own life’s through a different lens, we start seeing people differently and we start interacting with each other differently.
The positive outcome that we are hoping for maybe hard to see but if we keep looking and trying to see the good, the positive it becomes easier and easier we build our muscle memory.
But not only are we changing how we view the things around us, we change how others see us. No longer are people seeing your bumps and bruises but rather they are seeing you swinging for the stars.
Like many of the things that I have talked about here, this is not easy, I am not going to lie. It is way easier to sit down and let things just happen, but like all things that take work, the outcome is so much better than you could ever imagine.
So the next time you want to give up on something because it’s not going they way you want it to. Take a step back and readjust the way you are looking at it and see if you can find the bright side.
Until next time,
Juli
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