Do you feel short changed or are you comparing your life with others lives? Helen Keller truly helps us to put things into perspective! She said: "Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged."
I absolutely LOVE this quote!!!! When you think of the world as whole, we are VERY rich! Think about it! If you have 3 meals a day to eat you are better off than 925 MILLION people today. If you live in a home with running water and electricity and bathroom facilities you are better off than 1.6 BILLION people. There are over 100 MILLION people that are totally homeless! If you own a car you are blessed to be in the 8% of the world population. There are 1 out of 4 people that don't have clean drinking water to drink. If you can go to your kitchen faucet and get a drink of water any time you want you are VERY blessed. If you can read this blog, you are better off than 42 MILLION adults here in the US that can't read at all.
I think it is SO important to take a look at what we DO have at least once a week, especially when we start comparing our lives to other people's lives, thinking that their "grass" is greener than ours. Make a list of the blessings you do have helps us to see things as they really are! If you still feel you are being short changed in life, then list 3 things you can do right now to make some changes and then GET TO WORK! After practicing these techniques over time, who knows your life may become someone else's "greener grass"!
If you are stuck in life and want to take your life in a different direction and you don't know where to start, contact me and we can develop a plan to get you where you want to go!
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