Concentration

  Don’t lower your standards, but do remind yourself that removing your expectations of others—especially those who are being difficult—i s the best way to avoid being disappointed by them. You will end up sadly disappointed if you expect others will always do for you as you do for them. Not everyone has the same heart as you. Not everyone’s heart is filled with genuine gratitude. When you’re forced to deal with a difficult person, you can be grateful for having other people in your life who are far less difficult. You can be grateful for having a way to practice being better at patience, communication, and tempering your expectations. You can think of this person as a teacher, who is inadvertently helping you to grow stronger as a person. And, at the very least, you can be grateful for them because they serve as a great reminder of how not to be. Although we have these automatic thoughts that go into our heads in that moment of dealing with a difficult situatio...

Hi everyone its Nasir Brown, I hope all is blessed, so this came up and it felt like a good message to share with you all so here it is. I have come to realize that sometimes changing your situation isn’t possible — or simply not possible soon enough. You can’t restructure your entire lifestyle in an instant. I wish I could, and I wish I could change people but you can’t make someone else change against his or her will. And you certainly can’t erase the past. So, what choice do you have left? Change your attitude about your situation. Doing so will help you shift into a different approach and ultimately allow yourself to grow beyond the problems and barriers you can’t control immediately. Let’s be honest, we all have negative thought patterns that come up and we emotionally default to them when times get tough or stressful. Patterns like people-pleasing that was me, reacting with a victim mentality, succumbing to needless worry,...