The times that life has been really hard for me, were the times that I was thinking about how hard life can be. Any difficult task or dreaded situation has always been much harder to bear in my thoughts about it, rather than when I actually ended up doing it.
It reminds me of that quote from Shakespeare’s Hamlet: “there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”
The struggle is in our thoughts. We have the power to make any situation good or bad, easy or grueling, all from how we think about it. It’s even better for us to not think about it. To follow the advice my Comedy of Manners professor would often give me, and “let the chips fall where they may.”
In other words, live life as it comes, rather than belabor it with analysis.
Fox Michaels is a Certified Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Practitioner from the Academy of Modern Applied Psychology. He is an intuitive leader with more than 15 years experience as a trainer. In his spare time, Fox writes the ongoing blog Like a Fox!, where he shares his fun, joyful approach to life and love, as his own way of contributing to the Human Potential Movement. When not reading from his library full of personal development books, you can find Fox enjoying the cinema perks of being on AMC’s A-List, and also working to make sure that he’s the most stylish man on his own Instagram page. Feel free to check out if he's succeeding with that @foxmichaels.
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