“Imagine what it might be like to have pretty much everything you could have. You could easily afford it. You had fancy cars, mansions, traveled by private jet, hobnobbed with celebrities, the rich and famous, and had a fabulous showbiz career. You have what you thought you and everyone wanted most in life. BUT what if all that didn’t matter, and you felt empty inside? You made it, sort of, but not really.

You had everything you thought you could want but you didn’t have what you needed most. Imagine that you got to the top to only discover that what you’d acquired didn’t make you happy. Feeling lost you tried all sorts of therapies to feel better, but still didn’t? It would suck, right? It does for so many that others wish they were like. They see the lifestyle and think ‘oooo’ but don’t see the pain and emptiness there too.

I want to share with you this true story about one of my coaching clients. Ive frequently been called to work with people like this person. They have everything except what makes them feel valued, loved, deserving, fulfilled and happy.  What society tells us we must have and do to be ‘somebody’ often turns from a disappointing journey to a nightmare as people seek comfort through drugs and alcohol.

DEVELOP THE POSITIVE ATTITUDE, MINDSET AND BELIEFS TO TRANSFORM YOURSELF

A gentleman in the entertainment business, desperately sought me out. He’d been doing well financially for quite some time. You’d have thought his life was quite perfect. He was in every way outwardly a success, a large success, but as he stated ‘after all the money, I’m still me. I have problems’. Something was missing and he felt it every day. He could not shake it. It ate at him relentlessly. He suffered.

He had everything but that didn’t help. He could appear pretty upbeat and that all was well but he felt undeserving of his good fortune because, after all, he was ‘him’. Inside, he felt miserable. That made him pretty cranky at times. While therapists had him examine why he felt this way and worked to uncover what might be at the core, I did not. I felt he already focused on what was wrong too much of the time.

He’d spent years in therapy without resolve. What he didn’t do enough of was focus on what was right and what was working for him. I asked him to do what I have my seminar and workshop participants do. What I have done. I asked him to do what I have shared in these pages. First, I asked him to begin simply by making a list of the people and things in his life he is and was grateful for. List it small and large.

DEVELOP THE POSITIVE ATTITUDE, MINDSET AND BELIEFS TO TRANSFORM YOURSELF

I asked him to look at his life circumstances this very same way. What about his present AND his past could he appreciate? AND WHY? He was to write these down. He was to keep a gratitude journal. Don’t just list them. The ‘why’ is important too. What do you appreciate and why? I want everyone to develop an attitude of gratitude. Keep in mind he was miserable. He’d tried everything his therapists could think of.

He had the money to throw at the problem, but nothing made much difference. He told me I was his last resort. We met a few times and I’d ask him to share his list. I encouraged him to talk about those things and express how he felt. When he did, he visibly changed a little. You could see that his list mattered to him. HE FELT IT. Having felt empty for so long this was a huge breakthrough in minor proportions.

Lightning didn’t strike. However, he was gradually starting to notice a difference. Small at first but it grew in significance. A few sessions after we began this, I asked him what lessons he might have learned whether he realized them or not? Could he go back through his life and connect the dots and see how, from this vantage point, things made sense in a way he’d not noticed before? He didn’t think he could, but he could.

DEVELOP THE POSITIVE ATTITUDE, MINDSET AND BELIEFS TO TRANSFORM YOURSELF

This was very useful for him. He saw his life unfold differently than he’d ever considered. For the first time he began to realize everything was perfect. Everything good and bad led him to this moment. Everything, every decision he made, every accident in life, all brought him to now as if by perfect design. He learned while on this path HE had been trying to get his OWN attention for years. He finally began to understand.

He was trying to find himself. Through all of it. The success. The buying everything The loneliness and emptiness was himself trying to get himself to notice him and be okay with himself. To not only be okay but accept, validate and love himself. It was as if, all along, a higher self understood his issues and was attempting to help him resolve them. He just hadn’t noticed or listened. He was distracted by the things

Now, he began to fully appreciate the steppingstones of life bringing him here. Everything led to THIS moment so he could re-claim, if not claim for the very first time, the authorship of his life. I’ll share more next time but for now understand that the attitude of gratitude and the authentic expression of it can work wonders. Gradually as you first develop the new habit, but it is life affirming and wonderfully transforming. Things we get from the outside might temporarily thrill but it fades. True change from within makes a difference in every cell of your body and lasts forever. Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

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ATTITUDE IS THE NUMBER ONE PREDICTOR OF SUCCESS IN ALL AREAS OF YOUR LIFE! IF YOU DO NOTHIN, NOTHING CHANGES. TAKE THIS TINY POWERFUL STEP IN THE RIGHTY DIRECTION!

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