Being positive is easy when you are in a high spirits, or when things are generally going well. However when faced with adversity, it is common to regress back into our negative habits. The positives and negatives in our lives are unavoidable, and sporadic calamity is unfortunately beyond our control. This life we live will guarantee good times and bad times because for all things in life there is a season.
Dolly Parton once sang a song with the lyrics, “To everything, turn, turn, turn there is a season.”
It’s important to acknowledge that all the seasons in our life are necessary, and that the very challenging times help to prepare us for our next season of abundance. How can you appreciate the warmth of summer without surviving the harsh realities of winter? In addition, a beautiful spring is more beautiful after experiencing the changing colors of autumn.
When we are having a period of growth and positivity, there is a guarantee of hardship to follow. Anticipate and prepare for this season as best you can without becoming negative in your thought life, and general outlook. Just as you buy a coat for winter in autumn, be prepared for adversity. When you are in this season of hardship know that the wheel will again turn in your favor, as surely as the earth orbits the sun. A fruitful time is approaching and everyday you are closer to the next season of basking in the sunshine with good times.
When things are going well it is natural to focus on the good things. Your outlook of life is so much brighter, and because of this going into harder times may feel overwhelming, but try to concentrate on all you once had, still have, and will have again. Remember the summer in life’s winter. It’s just a matter of time before your warm again.
The wheel is round and never stops turning.
"Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. What you see reflects your thinking. And your thinking but reflects your choice of what you want to see." (SOURCE a course in Miracles)
It takes courage to reinvent joys, to reinvent opportunities, to reinvent dreams, to reinvent connections, to reinvent hopes that you have set aside.
~Mary Anne Radmacher
We call the shots on how we handle issue’s that come our way, so be a realistic optimist and know that proceeding every harvest comes a famine and after every famine comes a harvest. Every cloud has a silver lining and we need to develop patience to wait for the sun to come up. Incorporate these practices and you will soon find another reason to be optimistic. Concentrate on the way you look at things and take control of your mindset.
Watch out for your negative habits, and be reluctant to return to them! Don’t recall the previous times when undesirable things happened to you, but recall that after every storm follows a period of calm! Don’t submit to the thoughts that get you down and the people who deplete you. Replace these snares with happy thoughts, actions and positive people.
It's the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class.
~J. Willard Marriott
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