“Believe the universe wants [us] to succeed.  Don’t give up.  Keep what happened in the past in the past.  Focus on what’s in front of [us],” Kyle Fuller.  The day to day life wears us down if we let it, if we live in a way that isn’t reflective of who we are.  We have a choice to believe that we are destined to succeed or fail, that we have the ability to change/decide that outcome, that we can pivot, that we have a relationship with source that allows us to connect with our purpose—that we have a purpose.  We also have the ability to choose that we are somehow a victim of our circumstances, that we have no choice but to sit in the muck and confusion.  We can believe that we are meant to fail, that he universe doesn’t want us to be happy, that we are perpetually the victim in life.  The results of each are vastly different yet they come from the same source: our minds.

I know from experience that it isn’t as easy as snapping our fingers and we suddenly believe everything is perfect.  It takes a lot of work to reframe the mind and to actually believe it.  Sometimes it takes even longer to see the result of that belief.  But the point is what we believe, whether we think we are set up to succeed or fail, that we can turn the tide or not, it is up to us and the results will be a direct reflection of what our true belief is.  We have a skewed definition of what challenges are and that means at times those learning opportunities, the events that help us make decisions about what is right/wrong, what feels good, can stick with us and make us feel a certain way if it didn’t go how we planned.  In those moments when things seem a little dark, it’s easy to believe the odds are stacked against us.

But when we look at what’s right in front of us, we see the truth: we can only deal with what is in our lives at that moment.  While the past may be an indicator of what our foundation is, it is by no means a guarantee of what will happen.  Past failures don’t mean the future is doomed by any means—as long as we know how to frame the experience into something else.  We can take any circumstance and shift perspective on it.  To others it may be deemed a failure, but we can still look at it as an opportunity.  All we can do is work with what we have in our present state.  We can’t push the clock forward or backward—we only have this ever present now and that time can be filled with angst/anger/anxiety about what’s to come, or we can learn how to work with those circumstances and change it into something else.  The choice is always ours—we just have to remember the outcome is vastly different, and that is dependent on those choices. So choose wisely—no one else is responsible for the outcomes of our lives.