Life is awesome and sometimes it is not

I like to think about life as 50-50.  50% super awesome and 50% not so awesome.  Some people like to think the 50-50 is the human experience, that we experience 50% positive emotion and 50% negative emotion.  The human experience is meant to have contrast.  How else would we be able to know what was super awesome if we didn’t experience not so awesome?  The human experience has struggle, it is not supposed to be all rainbows and unicorns.  I believe a ton of us are not even experiencing 50-50 but more so experiencing 80-20 or 90-10, more negative experiences then positive.  

Our brains gravitate towards the negative.  And once our thoughts latch on to negative emotions, it  hangs there longer than necessary.  Our minds love efficiency so it just repeats the same negative thoughts over and over again and the next thing you know….we are having a 90% not so awesome life and an only 10% super awesome life.  The great news is you have the power to change your thoughts.  Our thoughts create our emotions.  So once we discover what we are thinking, we can practice a new thought that serves us way better!

3 Simple Steps to Start becoming aware of your thoughts

• Start to notice when you are “feeling” an emotion.

• Identify the emotion then ask yourself, what am I thinking to feel X

• Notice your thought, and decide if there is an upside to thinking it.  Is this thought serving you?  Is there another thought you might want to try instead, one that can provide a different emotion.

Just being aware of your thoughts is super powerful.  Understanding that thoughts are optional and you can choose differently if you wish.  

You have the power to decide what you want to think!  

Give it a go!  What do you have to lose?  I think there is only an upside to doing this work and creating the life you want to live. 

50% Super Awesome sounds pretty amazing to me!  

If you or your teen are not experiencing a 50-50 human experience and you are ready to, lets connect to start experiencing more awesomeness in your life.  It is totally worth it! 

Work 1:1 with me!