“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and NOT on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.”
– Martha Washington
I know, I know…we can say that this is a way of looking at life that is rooted too much in the way things used to be in the past – or we can say that whoever thinks this way does not know what we are going through.
You see, we can only live our own lives (as much as sometimes we may try to live other people’s as well) and because of this reality, we will never know how truly bad (or good) other people may have it. Remember what we project to the world is usually “the tip of the iceberg” – where the bulk of the reality is hidden from view.
So, when we look at this week’s empowering quote, we must forget about the rest of the world and think only of ourselves and our reality – because this is where we DO have the power of choice in how we look at things.
I will share this – it is way more difficult and a lot more work to always be looking at the positive side of things and be looking for and at opportunities – nonetheless, no one said that a life worth living was an easy life.
So, choose to be empowered this week and always be looking at the upside of everything that happens in your life. Sometimes it is very difficult to find the upside but we both know that in doing it this way, we will be able to discover our true strengths and because of it, the opportunities that others will miss … those opportunities that will allow us to leave a legacy; to be strong in navigating uncharted waters when others think it can’t be done; to be true to delivering on our responsibility to do the best we can to give the best of ourselves to this world … and in doing so achieve levels of success that we could never have imagined.
Make the choice for you, make the choice for your family, make the choice for the world … no matter who you want to make the choice for – just make the choice to be EMPOWERED and take the road less traveled for it will make all the difference.
