Each of us holds the power to decide how each day will be played out, but we rarely stop to appreciate what this really means. If we feel bad inside that is reflected out to everyone you meet - even if you think you're saying the right words, and doing the right things.
Every reaction you encounter comes from how you feel about yourself. If you make a conscious effort to feel calm, peaceful, and grateful for everything you have - you will radiate out happiness and contentment.
Make your own feelings your focus if you want to see the world around you change.
There are a few people and circumstances that you can't change, but instead of allowing yourself to feel upset and frustrated, just accept them as they are. Nothing is worth adding stress to your life. Keep moving on, and you'll find people and things to keep your mood raised. That way you're more able to be helpful to others.
The majority will respond to you feeling good, and treating them with kindness and consideration - exactly as you want to be treated yourself. When you start every day feeling good about yourself you will have patience and empathy for others.
Keep checking inside yourself throughout the day, and find a happy memory to smile about. If you feel low - take deep, slow breaths until you feel calm, and you've topped up your brain with oxygen, and this gives you the opportunity to find that happy memory. Then when you look around, you'll see the flower growing through the crack in the pavement that you missed before.
Don't miss the flowers, or all the possibilities that are waiting inside of you!
“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal.
In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized.
If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe