Quotation: “The only way to eliminate stress and pain is to stop doing the things that create it. It is easy to see what others do to us while we forget the drama we create for ourselves.” –Iyanla Vanzant
Comments on the Motivation Quotation: The good news: the stress and pain in our life can be eliminated! The not so good news: we will have to change our behavior and our thinking to ease our pain (and it won’t be easy).
We often are not able change what others do to us. If we focus on them and their behaviors toward us, we will become even more hurt and frustrated.
Our hope to ease our pain must be centered on what we can control; and that is our own behaviors and our own thinking. So, today, instead of blaming the behavior of others, why not take aim at your own behavior and work on self-improvement? Why not work extra hard to stop doing and to stop thinking the things that create and/or add to your stress and pain?
Ask yourself these questions: How am I adding to my stress and pain? How am I complicating my life? What are my self-destructive behaviors and self-destructive thoughts? How can I eliminate them from my life?
Then rewrite your life. Be a self-editor. Take the stressful drama scenes out of your life. Write in more joy and inspiration, mission and purpose.  |
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