Hardwire positivity. If you lose your faith, you lose everything. If you destroy your hope, you don’t have much to live for. We all face problems. I think it was Norman Vincent Peale who said the only people who don’t have problems are in the cemetery. Everyone faces challenges, everyone faces dark nights of the soul, and every one of us is blessed with good times. And as a matter of fact, a symptom of growth is often resistance and challenge. The human ego says it’s bad, but the challenge is what makes us stronger. Suffering at times is what introduces us to the divine and noble values of understanding, forgiveness, compassion, perseverance, bravery, and love for humanity. I believe you’re probably like me, it’s the things that have broken my heart that are the very things that have opened my heart, and it’s the difficult trials that have set me up for triumphs. So, I want to simply remind you, even if you’re going through a hard patch or facing a tough time, you want to do whatever it takes to hardwire in a protection system for your positivity. And that could mean just reading holy books or philosophical books every morning, could be prayer and meditation, which works very well for me, could be the discipline of journaling to process your pain. Could be being out in nature for a nature walk, what the Japanese call forest bathing, which is extremely powerful. I’ve been doing that most of my adult life. At the end of the workday, I’ll get on my mountain bike and go to nature, or I’ll go for a long nature walk, which is also a practice of many of the worlds most creative people. You also want to look to battle-proof your positivity. You want to look at the people you follow on social media. You’re associating with them, if they’re toxic, gossiping, trivial, superficial, those people are influencing you. You want to look at the films you watch. Are they violent? Are you watching all those crime documentaries? I mean, I see some of them offered on some of the streaming platforms, and it’s The 10 Lives of the World’s Greatest Killers. I don’t think I want to watch that. Or it’s all these crime dramas on television, I don’t think I’ve ever watched one of them. I don’t want to see gore, I don want to see violence, because then it’ll normalize those things within my Mindset, Heartset, Healthset,and Soulset. The four interior empires that I teach in The 5AM Club and in my other work at live events and with high-level coaching clients that I am blessed to mentor.
