Right now, you have all you need to feel calmness, contentment, and progress in your life!
This #1 Superpower is all you need to allow peace and contentment to flow in your life. Everyone has this Superpower, right now. What is it?
YOU DECIDE HOW YOU FEEL.
Right Now. At this moment. In the future too.
No matter what is happening around you, YOU DECIDE how you feel and react to it. That is a Superpower that everyone has right now.
Once you realize it, you can feel empowered to decide how you will feel and react.
OK, if you are thinking “Yeah, right, so why then if I get scared, well, I’m just scared and not happy about it”. This is true. This is real life. We all have moments of fear, anguish, or sadness. Then after that feeling, guess what? You decide how you will feel in the next moment. Get it???
Imagine someone cuts you off in traffic…. Yes, I know, the anger and frustration flare up in the first moment, and then I also know that I can decide if I allow that anger or frustration to continue. When this happens, I try (I’m not perfect) to select another feeling such as empathy. For example, my post-frustration self-talk goes like this — ‘Wow, I guess that person is having a terrible day. I do not need to add to that misery, nor join in it.
Easier said than done? Yep, I knew you may think that because we’ve all been there. Annndd, we’ve all, at some point in our lives, didn’t react with anger or frustration. Remember that time when you felt a shift in self-control? Let’s say it’s your Superpower shift.
Let’s try this next — read this sentence out loud “I do not control all around me, and I do not know how I’ll first react to all things, but I can decide how I feel after something happens”.
This is the #1 SuperPower you have today. Right now. Use it.
Don’t be perfect with it either, just do your best to practice your Superpower.
Don’t be Perfect. Be Progress.