Friday Perspective: Change your thoughts and you change the world
Life is filled with distractions. How we choose to respond to them has a major impact on so many aspects of our lives.
People who are easily distracted have trouble concentrating, being productive, managing stress, dealing constructively with other people, and controlling their tempers, among other things. And they have health problems, too. Think of the millions of dollars spent in treating high blood pressure, depression, anxiety, gastrointestinal irritability, and addiction... all as a result of unhealthy responses to life's distractions.
Instead of dealing with a distraction or simply "be" with it, we'd rather try to run away from it or somehow shield or cocoon ourselves from it.
It's not working.
To truly avoid distraction, you first and ultimately have to change your thinking.
When you no longer regard something as a distraction... then it can't bother you any more.
It's just like the little kid who refuses to eat anything but macaroni and cheese. He refuses anything else, even to the point of throwing a violent tantrum and making himself sick, simply because he holds on to the unfounded belief that all vegetables are yucky...
until the day of the showdown, when he's forced to eat a vegetable.
The skies part. The tempest blows itself out. His old perception has vanished, forever forgotten.
Life is, for a time, easier. At least until the next "distraction" rears its head.
Change your thoughts, your perceptions.
See how it changes your life.
People who are easily distracted have trouble concentrating, being productive, managing stress, dealing constructively with other people, and controlling their tempers, among other things. And they have health problems, too. Think of the millions of dollars spent in treating high blood pressure, depression, anxiety, gastrointestinal irritability, and addiction... all as a result of unhealthy responses to life's distractions.
Instead of dealing with a distraction or simply "be" with it, we'd rather try to run away from it or somehow shield or cocoon ourselves from it.
It's not working.
To truly avoid distraction, you first and ultimately have to change your thinking.
When you no longer regard something as a distraction... then it can't bother you any more.
It's just like the little kid who refuses to eat anything but macaroni and cheese. He refuses anything else, even to the point of throwing a violent tantrum and making himself sick, simply because he holds on to the unfounded belief that all vegetables are yucky...
until the day of the showdown, when he's forced to eat a vegetable.
The skies part. The tempest blows itself out. His old perception has vanished, forever forgotten.
Life is, for a time, easier. At least until the next "distraction" rears its head.
Change your thoughts, your perceptions.
See how it changes your life.
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