The Most Powerful Question You Can Ask Yourself in Difficult Times
This Empowering Question Will Shift the Way You Look at Life When Times Get Tough
When things don’t go as planned, we have a tendency to play stories of blame in our minds. It’s much easier to point the finger at what’s going on out there than to ask ourselves how we can best respond from within.
Taking responsibility for our lives means that we work on responding with ability as much as we can. While we can’t always have full control over external situations, we can control whether we use our minds to move us forward or to keep us feeling stuck.
When you aren’t sure how to move forward in life, ask yourself this simple question:
“If this situation does not change, what quality must I embody for peace of mind?”
Full credit for this powerful question goes to author and teacher Michael Bernard Beckwith.
The reason this question is so important is that it shifts our focus away from what we can’t control and puts our focus on what we CAN control. It gets us thinking about the actions we can take now to either readjust our course or keep moving in the direction we were headed.
For example, if you are worried about financial security because your work hours have been cut, you may find…
