Nobody or Everybody…
When frustration sets in, it’s easy to slip into the ‘Nobody ______________(fill-in-the-blank)’
mindset.
“Nobody really cares.” “Nobody is fun”. “Nobody helps me.” “Nobody is nice.”
This is what we say.
We find ourselves in the midst of a downward spiraling, tension filled
season. It’s natural, and we all
do it. However, we’d all agree
that it’s rarely productive. In
fact, it’s counterproductive and usually gets us nowhere, except more
frustrated.
The good news is – we
have a choice. We don’t have
to accept the notion that “nobody cares” or “nobody is nice”…
We can choose to think about it differently – we could have the ‘Everybody’
mindset.
What if we challenged ourselves to find something fun or nice or valuable about EVERYBODY?
The reality is that if we’ll just try…if we’ll just open our
minds and hearts, and simply listen to them,
we’ll usually realize that special ‘something’
about EVERYBODY. It’s amazing
what we learn about people when we’re slower to speak and quicker to
listen.
Nobody ever felt bad about learning fun, new things about everybody
else.
What if everybody looked for the good in each other? Who would ever be frustrated?
Nobody!
Have a great day.
Taylor
