Abraham explains that most positive speakers say "don't be sad, be glad". However, Abraham says the following:
“Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.”
– Mario Andretti, auto racing champion
Hub: Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil; and I want you to remember this, that love... true love never dies. You remember that, boy. You remember that. Doesn't matter if it's true or not. You see, a man should believe in those things, because those are the things worth believing in.
The following excerpt was taken from "Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: Doing What Works" by Brett N. Steenbarger, Ph.D.:
Once the person diagnoses herself as someone “with” depression, anxiety, or interpersonal problems, this identification cements the status of the problem. The SFBT practitioner is thus more concerned with the factors that maintain problems than with initial causes. Indeed, a problem such as insomnia may be initiated by any of a variety of factors, from situational stress to a severe cold. It is the person’s identification with the problem, however, that is necessary for its maintenance. de Shazer (1988; p. 8) observes that “problems are problems because they are maintained. Problems are held together simply by their being described as ‘problems.’” Once this identification is broken, the individual gains the ability to do something different and discover new, constructive patterns that become solutions.
A man walking across a field encounters a tiger. He fled, the tiger chasing after him. Coming to a cliff, he caught hold of a wild vine and swung himself over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above. Terrified, the man looked down to where, far below, another tiger had come, waiting to eat him. Two mice, one white and one black, little by little began to gnaw away at the vine. The man saw a luscious strawberry near him. Grasping the vine in one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other. How sweet it tasted!
Do you lose sight of the strawberries in your life because all of your consciousness is placed on the tigers?
If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in your field of bliss, and they open doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.
Hi, I'm Marelisa Fábrega. I blog over at Abundance Blog at Marelisa Online about creativity, productivity, happiness, and getting the most out of life.
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