The Hidden Mystery Behind DRIVING ON A FREEWAY WE ARE NOT FREE BUT MORE INTERCONNECTED THAN YOU THINK
Thanks for joining me for another The Win It Minute. Today, I’m going to start off with a great quote from Maya Angelou when she said, “People forget what you said, people forget what you did, but they’ll never forget the way you made them feel.” I can’t tell you how many people I’ve heard from since starting The Win It Minute. I’ve had some incredible words of encouragement. It’s made me feel great, and it’s all about making other people feel great. It’s been a great process. As I said, life is like an echo. What you send out comes back and makes a big difference.
I just want to give a quick, simple exercise in this. Everybody thinks that driving on a freeway, they’re so independent. It’s our American way of driving, but, actually, we’re so interconnected and that life is like that. You don’t realise that on social media, on Facebook, that if you’re on the freeway and somebody taps their brakes or swerves a little bit, it affects you majorly. It makes a big difference in the way you’re driving. Well, the same way as in life. If someone says a positive thing to you or a negative thing to you, it can throw you off track so dramatically. The greatest desire of all human beings is to connect.
A great example of this is, actually, Facebook has a larger population than the world did 20 years ago, because, ultimately, everyone wants to connect with other people. The greatest way to do that was just with a simple compliment. You can train your brain to stay in a positive mindset.
A simple exercise, next time you’re at Starbucks and you find yourself getting caught up in a wave of negativity, come on line, hurry up, or why is that guy ordering that Triple Chai Latte with extra foam? I know. Don’t lie, happens to me all the time, as well, but you can actually train your brain to stop that negative mindset. If you just start thinking about something positive, that chicken parm dinner from the other night or maybe seeing your kids smile that day, or your friend’s funny Facebook post from a couple days ago, you can stop the wave of negativity in your main brain and refocus it on a more positive attitude. By doing this, it trains your brain to actually continue to do that in your everyday processes. Trust me, the little things add up to big things over a long haul, and these are little things you can do to make it an awesome day. So get out and Win your Day today! #Wintheday #Winitminute
