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Change Your Perception
Remember this maxim: When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. The way you perceive things is an extremely powerful tool that will allow you to fully bring the power of intention into your life.

All too often, we live a life that is full of excuses. These excuses come from the notion that we must explain ourselves to others. The first key to living a life free of excuses is recognizing that ultimately you are accountable only to yourself. The other part of that, is knowing the only thing you can control in life is your own actions.

It has become common, even expected, that we place blame on things external to ourselves. There is almost always a difference between reality, and the way we wish things to be, but that does not change the fact that we must deal with reality as it is. It has become status quo to blame all manners of externalities, everything from the economy, to other people’s actions or inaction, to the weather. But if we accept that all we can control is ourselves, we can then begin to accept that our own actions play most heavily into our given situation. When you accept that it is your decision to invest in the stock market that has caused you to gain or lose money, it allows you to free yourself from anger at any external forces. You cannont control the market, but you can control your decision to participate in it.

Early on in human civilization we discovered that the ground was hard and covered in pebbles and other things that hur our feet. In order to move about more comfortably, we had two options, we could either change the world, by trying to cover it in leather or rugs or some other covering for our comfort, or we could change ourselves by wrapping leather around our feet and making shoes. We pretty easily recognized the only real option was to change ourselves.

When we change our perception and accept that it is not possible for ust to control the thoughts, actions or beliefs of others, we can then change our actions. Does this mean we should change our own beliefs or perceptions? Not necessarily. But it does mean we should be mindful of how we approach others. If we are mindful of another person’s beliefs and personality, then we will be able to approach that person in the best way to illicit a positive response. Of course we could opt to go the other way… All children are masters of “pushing people’s buttons” to arouse a negative response. Indeed, it is almost always a trivial task to do negative destructive things, but it requires effort and maturity to make positive changes, and to be able to illicit positive responses.

Mindfulness is the key to eliminating excuses from your life, and eliminating negative energy from your life which is the key to eliminating stress from your life. Mindfulness will allow yourself accept responsibility for your actions, and take control of your destiny.