A life without color!
Sunday morning, after church, my youngest daughter and I were headed to lunch.
I was excited about something I had read in a book that morning, so I decided to share it with my daughter.
The author stated how most people trade five days of pain for two days of pleasure.
He was making a point about how there are people who are not satisfied with their job, but they would rather stay in a job that they hate than leave to an unknown place.
In other words, they work in pain for five days, sometimes six, just to have one or two days of pleasure (Days off/weekends).
I find this to be true because of my next-door neighbor
When I lived on the east side of town my neighbor and I sometimes would stop and chat for a few minutes.
What was interesting to me was the consistency of this guy.
Every time my neighbor stopped and talked to me, it was to complain about his job and how hard life was, and then he would always finish with the same sentence, “Pues ni modos amigo asi es la vida que le asemos” (Oh well, my friend, that’s just how life is, what can we do)
I couldn’t understand, and I still don’t understand why people want to waste their time in a place that is not to their liking. Life is truly short, so why waste it in a sour environment?
Anyways...
Every time I heard my neighbor say his favorite sentence, I thought back to the very first quote I came across back in 2019. It was by motivational speaker Jim Rohn.
Jim said, “If you don’t like the life that you have, change it; you are not a tree.”
Jim was right, a tree has no options.
If the tree doesn’t like the environment or the place where it was planted, oh well, it has no say so.
The tree has to live in the same place for decades to come until it dies. Not us!
We have the power to change the direction of our lives overnight. We can create our own environment. We can live the life that we want to live and not the life that the world wants us to live.
All it takes is the decision to do it.
As human beings, we have a beautiful and powerful gift that GOD gave us called “Willpower.” So use this incredible tool wisely, my friend!
Ok, back to the story...
When I finished explaining the author's perspective to my daughter, she looked at me and said, “Oh, they live a life without color!”
I thought about it for a couple of seconds and said...
Yes, that’s exactly what most people do. They live a life without color.
Then she got curious and asked, Why do people live like that?
I said because they have been molded to do so!
In my “Purpose in Progress Program,” I share with my clients the three contributing factors to behavioral style.
1. Heredity – Traits that a person is born with.
2. Environment - The person’s environment.
3. Role Models – The People a person follows or the ones that influence them.
These three factors are crucial to a person's character.
I used to think that people lived a life without color and were trapped in their own comfort bubble because of “Goals.”
I thought that people didn’t have goals.
Come to find out, that’s not true, people do have goals, and a lot of times, they are awesome goals.
People want to be successful.
I have never met a person yet to tell me, “I don’t want a better life for me and my family.
I just want to be miserable, and I want them to be miserable too.”
So, what is it that keeps people trapped inside their comfort zone?
It’s the 3 negative emotions. The 3 fears!
( Check out “The 3 Negative Emotions” Newsletter).
These three emotions deprive us of living a life with color.
We try so hard to avoid falling into these fears that we lose track of time.
You blink once and you’re twenty years old, you blink twice and you're forty-five, by the time you blink your eyes three times, the organization you've worked for over forty years is throwing you a retirement party, now you're holding your eyelids because what comes next is your funeral. Time waits for no one.
I hear so many people say I’ll enjoy this, I’ll do that when the time is right. The right time was yesterday, the next right time is today, and tomorrow, well, we don’t know if we’ll see it.
My friend, enjoy the present! Forgive the past, and don’t worry about the future.
The life that you are painting today will determine the color of your tomorrow.
Hope this helps.
See you in the next one!
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