Here is a thought for you… you might be facing a seemingly unwinnable situation. For example,  you have certain unchangeable bills to pay and not enough money coming in to pay them. No matter how you add everything up, month after month, you notice that you are in a frantic game of pay this person- don’t pay that person. Then the next month you pay the second person and not the first, etc.  You find yourself a month or more behind. When I talk with people who are in this or a similar “unwinnable” situation, a common thread is to keep doing the same thing over and over again- which is to think that something will be different without changing anything.  Imagine a baby or a small child continously trying to put a puzzle piece in the same spot and it doesn’t fit.

 

 

How can we change the “unwinnable” situations in our lives? Let’s start with reprogramming the system. This starts with our thoughts. What if we lived in a system where there were always enough and inner peace was the normal way of being? What if nothing was ever late, past due? What if banks were accepting, forgiving, and patient?

 

 

At this point you might be laughing…  but I think you see where I am going here… everything in our lives begins from the point of thought… and the first place for change is to “reprogram our system” of thoughts.

 

 

In college, once, I was asked to create a Utopia… (the perfect place with the perfect system)

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Exercise: Create your own utopian world- where everything works perfectly and you are happy. (and everyone else is happy, too). Write in your journal. Have fun, be outrageous. Notice shifts.