#4. You are blind to the gifts and blessings around you.
1. You start the house from the roof
I want you to burn these words into your heart, “To fix the chaos outside, you must first fix the inside.”
Years ago, I got something in my eye. I went to the hospital, and the doctor put some drops in my eyes. It didn’t work. I went to see a private surgeon.
The surgeon told me, “Imagine your eye is a house, and you have it full of shit; how are you going to clean it by throwing droplets at the glass?”
The surgeon had to open the window (operate on my eye).
Moral: Stop looking for cosmetic solutions to problems that come from inside. Clean yourself on the inside so that everything falls into place on the outside.
2. You give up too soon
This world of comfort and speed has made us all impatient and soft.
When something doesn’t go our way, we say “Next” and move on.
The moment something takes more time than it should, more investment than it should, more patience than it should, more dedication than it should, we self-sabotage and say to ourselves, “This was not for me.”
And that attitude may be screwing up the best moments of your life.
You may have given up a meter away from the vein of gold. Perhaps you were on the verge of professional success or making that relationship work.
Stop being so lazy; fight.
3. Fire burns, but you don’t accept it.
Read carefully, “Things are the way they are.”
Some people don’t change. And you are still there wondering how someone can behave like that and be so selfish, ungrateful, and intolerant without realizing that this person is not you.
And since it’s not you, they can’t see the world from your perspective.
So, if you know that fire burns (that person gets on your nerves), why do you keep playing their game and arguing?
He won’t change his thinking by anything you say to him. Instead, he must cultivate empathy, but that’s his job, not yours.
Stop being indignant about how things and people are, and try not to get burned.
4. You are blind to the gifts and blessings around you.
Repeat after me, “I have to value things before I lose them, so I don’t neglect them.”
Here’s a list of things we don’t usually give thanks for, and we should because they make our lives so much better.
- Internet.
- Electronic devices: PC, tablet, Microphone, Apple Watch.
- A house to sleep in
- Food in the fridge
- Hot water
All of the above makes us kings and queens. Don’t you believe it? Look up how kings lived in the Middle Ages and discover if they had central heating, medicines, hospitals, electric lights, and planes to travel to Ibiza in summer.
5. Lack of humility
My grandfather taught me that every good sailor knows that the same water that holds the boat can sink it if it seeps into the ship.
Fame, good results, money, success, support your boat, but if any of that leaks inside you, you will end up sinking.
That’s why they tell you to detach yourself from the result. Because when you get the foolishness inside you, the illusion of being someone, of believing you are someone, your ego grows so much that your boat ends up sinking forever.
If you want advice you have not asked me for, that will do you good, “Be humble. The more humble, the more successful you are.”
Without humility, you stop learning because you think you know everything, and you need a beginner’s mind to keep growing every day.
Don’t forget that, and everything will be fine.
A virtual hug
AG
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