Life is Beautiful

I strongly believe that we all reach certain points in our lives that will define who we become. We all reach crossroads where our lives hit a certain threshold of pain, emotional challenges that we are no longer willing to settle for. This threshold is very different for every person. I also believe that if you are unhappy with anything in your life, then that is a call to change; a desire from deep within the “real” you that wants to experience more of what life was meant to be. This can be very challenging for a lot of people as they have this powerful calling to improve their lives, but they don’t have an effective way of going about it. They then do the “logical” thing, which is to work on the effects instead of the causes. Here is a simple thought process that will be a wake-up call to you if you feel like you are spinning your wheels but getting nowhere. For my life to get better, my thoughts about my life must get better. For things to change, I must create a change within. I am myself. This is my life, and I am the creator of my own destiny and my own happiness.

I can change any and everything in my life by simply changing my thoughts. This puts me in the driving seat of my life and makes my life my own responsibility. It eliminates fear, anxiety, and apprehension, for I know that no matter what life gives me, I can always get to the next level and take the next step by simply making the internal shift in my own thought process.

I can stop looking outside for external events, people, and circumstances to blame. I only need to look inside myself. No matter how influential you are, you cannot control the circumstances and events outside your life, only how people and circumstances affect you. There are only three things over which you have absolute and total control, and these are all you ever need. It forms the total experiences of life. My thoughts, my actions, and my beliefs are always under my conscious control. They are my thoughts; they are my actions, and they are my beliefs, and they create my world every minute of every day.

This knowledge is incredibly liberating. Whenever I want to have a more positive experience or more love in my life, I need only look inwards and work on myself. It was once said that the hardest work you will ever do is the work you do on yourself. See, you can run around and work incredibly hard at trying to influence and change circumstances, but that will only make you tired and discourage your future efforts. It’s much easier to change yourself and your perception of yourself and your life from the inside. Nothing has any meaning except for the meaning you give it. Everything you experience in life begins and ends in the mind.

All change starts and ends with you. If you are going to invest the time and effort to improve your life, then invest it in changing yourself from the inside, and it will reflect outwardly. Invest your time and effort in improving “you” and let go of the superficial urges to control events and circumstances. Your whole perception and experience of life comes from you and who you really are. Change yourself, improve your thoughts about yourself, and just watch the world around you improve and change before your very eyes.