We need a little reminder today: So much of life is about perception, rather our choice about our perception.  We can choose what we believe at any time.  We can choose how we react based on that belief.  We can choose what we think about any given situation.  Do we want to feel angry or are we trained to feel angry?  Do we want to be happy for someone or are we hiding jealousy?  Do we want to allow happiness in our lives?  That last question may strike some people as ridiculous but the truth is we spend so much time agonizing over how things aren’t what we think they should be that we forget that by focusing on the negative or challenging aspects of our lives we are simultaneously choosing to not focus on the good.

The good news about all of this is that we can change that story at any time.  We can look at it differently.  I don’t claim it’s easy—I’ve written enough pieces about that here.  The beauty is that we can also change that perception.  We can decide that it’s easy to view the world differently.  We can decide that today we want to do something different and feel differently.  Part of what does make it challenging is our tendency to want to change it all at once.  We can pick one thought and work on that and let it cascade into others. Pick one thing we need to change our perception of and work on shifting toward what we want to think and feel about it.  Amazing things can happen when we change our thoughts.