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When your opinion of your past, present, and future tends to be positive, you will be happy.
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When your opinion of your past, present, or future tends to be negative, you will be unhappy.
Those two sentences describe all human emotion.
What's the key word in both of those sentences?
OPINION.
Why?
Because it's not what happens to us, it's our opinion of what happens to us that determines our thoughts, feelings, actions, and responses — and all of those together create our very lives.
Are you carrying around a negative opinion of something that happened to you 10, 20, or 30 years in the past and allowing it to determine your life today?
Are you not appreciating all the abundance you have in the present, right under your nose?
And are you afraid of what's going to happen to you in the future?
If you're holding on to any of these negative opinions — about your past, present, or future — you'll tend to be unhappy about that portion of your life. (Many people have a negative opinion about all three!)
Conversely, I'll bet you know individuals who have positive opinions about their past, their present, and their future even though they've been through tremendous pain, unbelievable loss, struggle, and hardship.
Let's be honest: how many people do you know who HAVEN'T gone through these things?
What is it about people who've been through pain and struggle and choose to be happy anyway?
They've made a conscious choice to have a positive opinion about what happened to them in the past, what's happening to them in the present, and what's going to happen to them in the future.
They are — whether they know it or not — asking the right questions.
There's one more thing I'd like to point out here: your life is nothing more than your opinion of your past, your present, and your future.
Where does your past exist? Only in your mind.
Where does your present exist? Only in your mind.
And where does the future exist? Only in your mind.
Nowhere else in the universe do these three things exist than inside that brilliant brain you've been given.
If you want to end your addiction and live the life of your dreams, change your opinion of your past, your present, and your future.
