You get what you focus on. When you focus on survival, that’s what you get. You survive. You just get by with the relief of nothing terrible happening. In a survival mindset, joy is a luxury. For a thriving mindset, joy is essential. Open to joy and thrive.
When we depend on circumstances to look a certain way for us to feel joy, we rarely experience joy.
Thriving is all about your mindset. See yourself with plenty of everything you need and want. See more than enough.
It takes courage and willingness to disengage from the insistent pull of practical reality and choose to create what we want to see and experience. This is not about becoming an ostrich, burying your head in the sand. It’s simply about getting curious to explore what both and would look and feel like.
Many of us have a story that we tell ourselves from time to time that is outdated, misleading and negative. Some stories are rooted in a core wound or traumatic experience. Our stories our painful traps that we fall into, until we wise up. Focus on your intuition rather than your story, and trust your deeper knowing.
If you want to feel inspired and alive, focus on what you most deeply desire and notice what happens. Do you feel excited, nervous or conflicted? Our deepest desires can trigger our fears.
As one year rolls into another, dreams that still beckon, unfulfilled desires, intentions and goals drift up into our mind and heart. We long to see them fulfilled and feel glimmers of possibility shimmer in the silence between doubts. Honor your deepest desires; start with how you want to feel.
The season of the light is here. At the darkest time of the year, I think of the quote, “It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.” It’s been a tumultuous year in the world. Maybe you are experiencing personal challenges too, or perhaps things are going well for you right now. Whatever is happening, we have a choice to turn our minds to the dark view or find and follow what lights us up.