“My Life Is Great.” — Say it!
Quitting the Race of Dissatisfaction and Focusing on Your Greatness.

I have just finished a session with my coach and it was very different from the sessions we usually have. I often share with her my challenges, things that bother me and stuff I need to work on. Whether it’s my private or professional life, there’s always something to bring up and discuss. We come up with lists, solutions and use different perspectives to look at things that bother me.
Today’s coaching session was different.
Today I felt very fulfilled as I realized that a lot of things have been aligning for me lately. I didn’t want to complain or work on things, I simply wanted to express gratitude and so I did.
Our session was about noticing abundance and excitement about what the future may bring. I wasn’t downplaying what was working or looking for what may not work in the future. I was in the now, focusing on greatness.
A few months ago I was at the doctor’s who said “you seem healthy.” I felt like I couldn’t just agree with that, couldn’t just admit I was healthy. Was it the society that was pulling me trying to soak me into the sea of dissatisfaction, was I acting according to what was acceptable — expressing discomfort and dissatisfaction? Instead of going back in time and thinking about the times there was something wrong with me, why couldn’t I just simply admit that I was healthy?
Why can’t we simply admit:
Yes, my life is great!
Even if we tried to say it, we’d be tempted to add “now” which would make it “Yes, my life is great now but you never know so I’d better not get too excited.” Why? Why do we always sprinkle dissatisfaction on to everything we do? We compare, carefully choosing our comparison benchmarks so that they prove us our inadequacy. Once we reach or surpass these benchmarks, we refocus on new targets, which will feed our hunger for dissatisfaction.
Coaching sessions are based on dissecting issues instead of expressing gratitude and building on abundance.
It’s as if we were in a race of dissatisfaction and admitting that our life is great would disqualify us. Why do we want to participate in this race?
We notice that misery brings more attention and builds stronger connections than success. So we decide to fish out the misery, amplify it and share it everywhere. Winning the contest of dissatisfaction gets us attention and it boosts our ego.
A few months ago I wrote about readers being attracted to stories that promise misery.
What if we tried, just for a day, for one coaching session and admitted that our life is great, period? This greatness may build on greatness spreading even more greatness.
What can be possible for us when we project this confident attitude joyfully expressing abundance?
Let’s be aware of the outcome of participating in this race of dissatisfaction and simply quit. Even though we notice we are surrounded by lots of participants and this unconventional move may be frowned upon, let’s step back, evaluate, refocus and amplify greatness.
Notice the effect of quitting the race of dissatisfaction. At first you may feel misunderstood and your unconventional attitude may seem arrogant. You may notice that misery was magnetic and satisfaction is not.
Evaluating what we want, we need to decide where we want to focus our energy on:
- Winning the race of dissatisfaction through focusing on and spreading misery downplaying our success.
- Designing our success on our terms standing tall on our platform of success and building on greatness.
As creative entrepreneurs, we are faced with a lot of choices that will shape our career path. We can influence the outcome by being intentional, making mindful choices and embracing being unconventional. I’m sure that throughout your creative path you have realized that:
Being a creative = embracing being different.
Those who join races because they’re too weak to resist social pressure, because they need to conform, are missing out on the chance to design the life on their own terms. They don’t seem to be strong enough to be different, to accept that living unconventionally comes at a cost.
Say it, even if you’re the first one to say it, admit it to others but most importantly to yourself:
My life is great.
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