The Ultimate Pep Talk, Be grateful you’re alive

Let’s just take a moment and evaluate our lives. Look at the world as an opportunity to live and not a waiting room for what is to come. When we start to look at the purpose of each day and each moment we start to become grateful for the things we are given in the opportunity of living. If you stub your toe be grateful there is a toe to stub, if you are going to work be grateful you have somewhere to go.      

Life is a gift and living is an opportunity. This rollercoaster is what you make of it so make the most of every moment. Anton Chekhov said that “Man is what he believes” and those five words sum up the human experience better than a 1000 page book could. We can only do great things if we have the belief we can, so live in the now and enjoy the ride; you can achieve great things if you believe you can.  

Do not look to the sky or to your neighbors, look in the mirror and mark your progress in the person who was standing there the day before. Achieve great things the second you arise by arising with an empowered feeling of infinite possibilities and the promise of a new day. You are the coach, player and spectator, play well, be well and most of all, be grateful you’re alive.

Develop your Progress Instincts

Positive thought leads to positive action which always leads to positive results. It doesn’t matter if your building a house or buying groceries a positive expectation will lead to a positive experience. Canceling out tendencies to let your mind wander in to the worst case scenario will allow your subconscious mind to free itself from limited outcomes.

If you think about the unlimited possibilities of life and the fraction of a second timing that is involved with circumstance. You can understand how leaving your house a minute earlier may lead to a chance encounter or a run in with good fortune. It is when someone limits the mind by assuming everything is not going to work out that day that they do not open themselves to the beautiful events that make up our daily life.

This barbaric mentality is a function of our savage past and our fight or flight tendencies but there must come a point where we must relax the survival instincts and develop the progress instincts. It serves no purpose to have the instincts of a cave man as we are far removed from our genetic roots. We are not in competition with our environment or our neighbors; we are in a never ending race for personal and global progress.