Quit Complaining

Circumstances do not actually mean that much, quit complaining.

This is the same kind of thing that I wrote about a few weeks back. But there are a few reasons that circumstances are not really that significant.

The first is that everyone places value on different things. The second is that everyone perceives an experience differently.

Values are different for each individual but here is what I mean by that: the same event may be more important or impactful for one person than it would be another. Let’s look at an easy application of this, the weather.

Currently living in West Palm Beach, FL, it seems to rain nearly every day. Sometimes it rains and sometimes it does not rain. When I wake up, if it is raining, well, maybe I won’t be able to do the workout I had wanted to quite as easily. If it is not raining and there are clear skies, maybe that enables me to have the workout I had initially planned. But, to me, the weather is the weather and I value my happiness and overall attitude at a higher level than I do the weather. I tell myself that I CAN feel happy regardless of the weather and then CHOOSE to feel happy.

For others, they may tell themselves that they will only be able to be happy if there is a sunny day. They may sulk into the office at 9:00 and loudly exclaim their disbelief about the rain. Well, it…