Always look up! For those who truly seek to achieve a certain level of success, you must train yourselves to see only the Perfection you desire, and understand that any improvements you wish to make in your business and personal affairs is the Perfection of that condition.
Any effort to raise a condition to a higher level of quality for your happiness and that of others requires discipline and determination. Training yourself to focus on this discipline provides tremendous help.
You see, it is the appearance of the things we don’t want that keeps us down. They do this by keeping our attention drawn to those things. The more our attention is drawn to the problems that distress us, the less attention we give to the things we do want.
Distressing conditions will drain our energy so long as our attention is given to those conditions. It is so easy to get pulled down by distressing appearances, but not when you’ve learned to turn them into opportunities. It is in seeing every condition around you as an opportunity that gives you the strength and courage you need to reach your goals. You have the ability to look at conditions any way you choose.
Everyone knows the value of experience. We always look back to a past experience for the lessons it taught us. You may not have seen the experience as good, at first, but eventually you learned the value that was there. At this very point in time, you have experience that is valuable to you and others. What makes your experience so valuable is how you look at it.
It seems that in most cases, the value of many experiences isn’t seen until the opportunity comes up to use it. When someone comes to you with a similar situation to what you have already experienced, it’s easy to see the value in the experience. Being able to help someone is very rewarding. Your experience can save them a lot of distress or energy.
You can do yourself this kind of service. Rather than letting the appearance of a problem or situation upset you, look for the value in it. The minute you begin to look at a situation for its value, you immediately release yourself from stress.
Remember, distress and struggle drain your energy. Once your energy starts to go, you begin to lose your ability to handle any condition. This is what I find so many of us experiencing unnecessarily. You have to be alert, but anyone can turn a situation around immediately, just by looking at it constructively. There is absolutely no reason anyone should have to suffer day after day in distress from conditions that are a part of life’s experience. You have come a long way already. You can go even farther, much faster, when you accept that experience-good or otherwise-is how you see it.
