Imagine this scenario, if you will: It’s the middle of the month and you’ve run out of money. You don’t earn much anyway and you just heard on the news in the taxi that the price of bread, electricity and water has gone up. You get home to find your room flooded with water and you realize that it’s because there’s a leak in the bathroom. The landlord, with whom you don’t get along much, is a nasty piece of work and so you know he’ll probably try and cook up some dubious reason for you to be the one who sorts out the plumbing. Just then, your old Nokia phone with a crack right across the screen, starts to ring. You are startled by the sudden phone call so much that you drop the cell in the pool of water you’re standing in. After yelling a terrifying “WHY?!?!”, you answer the phone and you get told that your cousin just died.
For someone reading this post right now, this scene may seem like high melodrama straight out of a B-grade movie script; for someone else, this could be real life. In fact, I’m willing to bet some good money on the possibility that some people feel that this – and worse – is the story of their lives right now and often. Worry and negativity seem to be a part of life that we can’t escape. We worry about our future, our relationships, our finances and we get anxious about whether the dreams of success, joy and prosperity we’ve had from a young age will ever come true. Many times, it’s not that we enjoy worrying or find pleasure in it. We find we just do. “Well, how do I stop myself from worrying then?”, I hear you ask. Good question.
The following short video, featuring famed American preacher Joel Osteen, gives us some fascinating food for thought and provides part of the answer to that question:
What I love most about this video is how there is an emphasis on a shift of focus and the cultivation of a grateful heart. Sure, we all go through terrible situations like the one in the scenario painted above, but we all conquer or are defeated by the challenges of our lives based on what we focus on and whether we choose gratitude or complaints.
Learn with us how you can live a more grateful life and live your life worry-free through the teachings and principle of the one who said “So do not worry or be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will have worries and anxieties of its own. Sufficient for each day is its own trouble”. Please click on the banner below and watch the video that follows.