{empowered}

what do you do when things suck?
well today i had a little cry on the kitchen floor.
there is nothing worse than feeling powerless.
and for a few hours today that’s exactly what i felt:
and it sucked.

after wallowing for some time and actually, not until the moment i sat down to blog about my misery, did i remember something that had the potential to lift me from the doldrums...
a vague memory of these big ideas i get each day....
this one was all about tony robbin’s concept that ‘to think’ is really ‘to question’ and basically we go through life continually asking and answering questions within ourselves.
looking at how i was feeling today, i can see now how very true that is and how the questions i was choosing to ask (and answer) only served to reinforce my despair: what did i do wrong? why i did wrong? how i did wrong? it was all about the negatives. the if onlys. the bad me. the poor me. pretty disempowering stuff eh?

and so of course the effervescent tony’s answer to this: ask yourself better questions!
of course. how ridiculously simple is that?
but it’s true. and i did. and suddenly...

banish those blues!
what happened today was bad. but it’s happened.
dwelling, focussing and reliving it, serves no purpose.
instead i will chose to ask myself what have i learned from this experience? what has this taught me? and most importantly, what do i intend to do about it?
it’s amazing how much more fun and uplifting it is planning something empowering!

and so that’s exactly what i have done. and it feels great.
i feel i have turned the situation around and made it work for me as opposed to against me.
sure, it doesn’t change the reality: but i’ve changed my perspective.