Seek and ye shall find

“The raw material for a sweet life or a bitter life is always there. The story you emphasise is the one you notice.”

Mindset is talked about a lot these days—and for good reason.

It colours the lens through which you view the world. Your mind is capable of great feats of flexibility, of bending reality to align with your expectations.

If you believe people are out to get you and that nothing ever goes your way, you’ll start to see proof of it everywhere. This victim mentality feeds itself, reinforcing the idea that life is working against you.

If, on the other hand, you trust that the world works with you and you with it, then everything shifts. The world opens up once you decide to see things as opportunities rather than a hindrance to what you thought was the ideal way of things going.

This isn’t meant to be a hippy-dippy proclamation. Things go wrong and cause problems. It sucks.

But what really defines how sucky the situation is how you react to it. Is it an opportunity to learn from your mistakes, to grow and become something better? Or is this where you give up?

How will you spin your story?

The truth is that we can actually control very little in life – though I have often tried hard to control more. One thing we can control is how we choose to see the world.

A few things I tell myself to remind myself of this

• “Seek and ye shall find” – look for the good, the lesson, the opportunity in everything
• “You get out what you put in” – intention shapes the results you see
• “Make it a great day” – great days don’t just fall out of the sky and into your lap – it is a culmination of many different factors but one easily in your control is your attitude