Is your outlook brittle or resilient?

''Two men looked out from prison bars,

One saw the mud, the other saw stars.''

― Dale Carnegie

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

Perspective

 

#StayHomeSaveLives

Many of us fear boredom – even the faintest whiff of boredom sends us scurrying right back to the game.

Arthur Schopenhauer said that willing itself is never fulfilled - as soon as one wish is satisfied, another appears. Though there may be some very brief respite, some fleeting period of satiation, it is immediately transformed into boredom.

Every human life is tossed backward and forward between pain and boredom.

January 1st can be the first data point towards a new Goal.

Last year had its ups and downs, but has personally ended so badly and I've noticed I'm honestly losing interest in even the smallest things in life that used to carry such meaning up to now.

So I'm reminding myself how there are opportunities in just about every experience. Things I can learn from. Things that will help me grow.

A good friend recently said to me, what's meant for you won't pass you by. So whenever you have a negative experience, ask yourself, where is the opportunity in this? What is good about this situation? Opportunity won’t knock until you build that door.

Wishing everyone the best in the years ahead.

G