RESPONSIBILITY

The Difference Between Good Fortune and Bad Karma All Points Back to You

Sometimes you have to learn the lesson, to learn the lesson

Jill Reid
Change Your Mind Change Your Life
4 min readSep 17, 2021

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We thank our lucky stars, the universe, guardian angels, and our spiritual guides if things are going great.

When life is grand, we’re feeling good about life and our satisfaction level escalates. And we quickly give credit to what we believe to be the source of our current success — an entity or concept we can count on that guarantees a repeat performance, without much help or effort on our part.

And if rotten tomatoes head our way and splatter all over our freshly-laundered shirt? We blame everything and everyone in sight. Because when our life circumstances go south, we immediately start looking for a scapegoat.

I’ve tried both tactics to justify my personal ups and downs

And frankly, I’m not sure either strategy is realistic — or desirable.

In the past, my periods of irresponsibility have cost me big time. Loss of income, diminished motivation, weight gain, listless libido, and complete indifference. Oh yeah, I readily adopted a…

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Jill Reid
Change Your Mind Change Your Life

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