About this episode
Simplified Explanation: Things happen in life that we have no control over, but we do control how we will respond. The story of my heart is a fact, I have dealt with death every day of my life and now, I don’t worry about death. I won’t leave this life any faster than I am permitted. These events are to give us strength and understanding and without these opportunities, whether good or bad, we would not be who we will become in the future. So, if they are going to happen in the future, be accepting of them. Now, you do have choices, when you make good choices, you are more likely to succeed and turn these events into opportunities. If you choose to do things that are against the law, unethical, or things you know you shouldn’t do, then you will have to accept the consequences that come. Don’t blame others for things you do, but instead, learn from them and don’t make the same mistakes twice. If you see someone else making that mistake, then learn from their example and pain and resolve not to make the same mistake.
Real Life is hard sometimes, maybe even most of the time. You never know what is going to happen. A president may be elected, gas prices will double, and you may lose your job. You may be minding your own business and a car may come flying into your living room and the owner of the car is uninsured. You may win a sweepstakes you were just goofing off when you entered. Things happen and you need to roll with the negative events and celebrate the successes in life.
Most of the time, when you are intentional with life, good things happen. There are two types of mentalities you can change a life for the better or the worse: the victim mentality or the success mentality:
The Victim Mentality – This mindset develops when a person sees themselves a victim in everything bad that happens to them. Everything bad happens in your life because you are a victim. This type of mentality will hold a person down and strangle them without a struggle, because the person is not ready or able to fight back. Negative things come and those individuals will give up, blame others, and fall back on the idea that they can’t do things for themselves. And to many, there is nothing they can do to get out of these scenarios. There is so much more to this than I can write in this section (read more on our site).
The Success Mentality – This person takes personal responsibility for things that happen in their lives. Not to say things don’t happen to them that they didn’t cause, but instead, they don’t see themselves as a victim when things get hard. Instead, they work on the assumption that “things happen, but I will overcome”. This is the person that sees the glass half full (as opposed to it is half empty). We find opportunities and failures as educational moments where we get right back up and begin by fighting back. The truth is, you can do almost anything in life, but you must do it intentionally and know that you are not a victim,
