| If you stop for just five minutes and pay | | | | problem is that we have allowed ourselves to |
| attention, really pay attention, you will be | | | | fall into false beliefs and negative thinking |
| able to pick up on some of the most basic and | | | | as we got older. Many of us have stopped, |
| important lessons in life. These are lessons | | | | usually by the age of ten, questioning the |
| that will allow each and every one of us to | | | | world, and life, and our place in it. |
| enjoy and experience life more fully, more | | | | |
| richly, more intimately. | | | | Many of us have never taken the time as |
| | | | adults to find things that inspire us. To |
| Lessons that will allow each of us to | | | | find things that excite us and light that |
| experience life more fully and let go of | | | | fire in our belly. This is no one else's |
| stress. Here are three lessons you can get | | | | fault but our own. We must all take |
| from life just by paying attention for five | | | | responsibility in order to live the life that |
| minutes. | | | | truly allows us to feel fulfilled and |
| | | | accomplished. |
| 1. Everything changes. As I have often heard, | | | | |
| "change is the only constant." Much sorrow | | | | 3. Life is choice, and each of us decides. |
| and sadness come to people because of their | | | | Each and every one of us designs our lives |
| inability to accept the fact that everything | | | | through the power of our choices. Every |
| changes. Nothing ever stays the same. This | | | | single day we are faced with decisions and |
| has always been true, always will be true, | | | | choices, and our lives are the splitting |
| and no amount of wishing things to be | | | | image of those choices and decisions. We must |
| different will ever make them so. | | | | take responsibility for our choices and |
| | | | decisions. |
| Every second of our lives we are changing. We | | | | |
| must learn to grasp this and appreciate it's | | | | If you are not currently happy or pleased |
| real value. If things stayed the same, there | | | | with the life you have lived up until this |
| would be no chance of living a more | | | | point, you have no one to blame but yourself. |
| fulfilling life. Of accomplishing goals and | | | | You have created your life up to this point |
| chasing dreams. There would be no advancement | | | | through the power of your choices. If you |
| or the opportunity to improve those areas of | | | | hate it, it's your fault. If you love it, |
| your life you currently are not pleased with. | | | | it's your fault. |
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| We must remember that nothing stays the same. | | | | There is a positive to this though. By |
| If things are going horribly in your life and | | | | realizing and admitting that you have created |
| you are in a place that you absolutely hate, | | | | your life up to this point, even if you hate |
| remember that this will pass. Even if your in | | | | it, you give yourself the power and the |
| a place that you never want to change, just | | | | ability to change it. If we did not have free |
| remember that this too will pass. Nothings | | | | will and the ability to choose and make |
| stays the same, and it never will. | | | | decisions, that would mean that we were |
| | | | destined to live a life of misery and sorrow. |
| 2. Life is meant to be abundant and full or | | | | But we have created our life, and that means |
| prosperity, joy, and happiness. None of us | | | | we can create our future life any way we |
| our meant to suffer and live a life of | | | | choose. |
| sorrow. If you watch a child, you will notice | | | | |
| this in only a few minutes. Children are | | | | Use the power of these observations to your |
| naturally happy. They can get their hands | | | | advantage. Realize that everything changes, |
| smacked for touching something, cry for a | | | | you deserve and are wanted to live a life of |
| second, then be back up and running with a | | | | power, happiness, abundance, and bliss, and |
| huge smile on their face, and usually back | | | | that you can create and live that life |
| after what they got their hands smacked for | | | | through the power of your choices. Make |
| in the first place. | | | | choices that allow your life to change in |
| | | | ways that allow you to experience and create |
| Every single one of us is meant to live a | | | | happiness, joy, passion, and abundance in all |
| life of happiness, joy, excitement, passion, | | | | areas. |
| and a million other positive emotions. The | | | | |