Month: February 2017

“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough”

― Oprah Winfrey

That quote is intense, right? When I first read this, I immediately began thinking about my own experiences and related it to my personal life. Am I really one of those people who constantly focuses on what I don’t have? Is this why I always feel like I still don’t have enough (ugh)?

The Downfall of Wishful Thinking

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Oh, my goodness! Congratulations! I’m so happy for you!

This is what your mouth says. But is this how you really feel?

It can be extremely difficult to see someone excel in life when we personally feel like we’re stuck on a path to nowhere. While we’re singing the same old tune on this dead end road, we see other people accomplishing great things and something overcomes us. It’s a physical reaction that you can literally feel in the pit of your stomach. Your chest is overcome with a feeling that’s hard to describe. It’s a heaviness of some sort. Or maybe it’s emptiness. This feeling is intensified depending upon just how unhappy or dissatisfied you are with your personal circumstances. It’s not at all a good look.

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I feel like such a failure.

Unfortunately, I have uttered those words to myself more times than I can count. I have spent countless nights wondering how and why. I have spent many hours at my work desk with a feeling of sadness and frustration. Like many people, I have attended many meetings in which my only focus was breaking away from the chains of a job that was simply not fulfilling my purpose.

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