#Index4Index Daily Inspired Motivation: Indomitable Optimism - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Sunday, January 29, 2023
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Today's Index4Index Daily Inspired Motivation is about the incredible transformative power of optimism and a positive outlook on every area of our lives. No real success or happiness comes without it!
"Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress."
-Nicholas M. Butler
I can speak from personal experience on this, as I recently shifted in a very powerful way from a perspective and mindset that was far less optimistic or positive, to one where I am deeply and passionately optimistic and grateful. The contrast in experience between the two perspectives is truly massive! It's as if I've transformed into another individual, as I feel so radically different from before!
I truly no longer have the mental and emotional bandwidth to entertain the sorts of thoughts and perspectives that I used to allow to pull me down into a dark abyss. Life, my life, the people that I can help and the beauty that I can create, are far too important to go down those self-defeating paths any longer!
I'm excited! I'm so excited for what I can do and create and contribute! My life continues to align more and more with my deepest passions, purpose, mission, and service, and not-so-ironically, with what I truly want! So. Much. Gratitude.
I'm going to tell you straight up that you can accomplish ridiculously more in your life with a positive, optimistic attitude, perspective, and outlook that you can with a negative, pessimistic, apathetic, or ambivalent one! Period. You are obviously free to choose to see things any way you like. I'm just telling you what I've experience, in hopes that it can assist you to shift your own life in a good and beautiful direction. You're the one that needs to decide. It's all up to you, truly. You are greater than any of the stories that you have about yourself. I'm just here to remind you, and you absolutely can live a life that enthralls you. Start now!
Remember, dear friends, that we are all in this together, that we rise by lifting others, and that together we thrive, so onward and upward, joyfully together! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙
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I'm getting there! Though I have to admit, certain (offline) people still have the ability to make me want to throw in the towel.
I think you're doing great @treefrognada! I most certainly understand! I'm a sensitive bugger, so other people can definitely affect me too! I wish you an easeful resolution! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙
Believe me, one doesn't have to be particularly sensitive to be negatively affected by this person.
We both volunteer for the local branch of an organisation, and at the monthly meeting three weeks ago she complained that I was troublesome and forced her to read the info emails from higher up, since I do read them and try to discuss them. Then she realised that we had a guest from the district level, and started giggling and blushing and trying to make excuses, saying that of course she always read the emails. Which I duly noted in the minutes, since I was secretary at that meeting.
A week after that she suddenly called for an extra meeting, with one days notice, but also said in the email that it was purely voluntary and would only discuss changes we want to make to the rooms we use for the organisation's activities. I couldn't attend and asked her to send me a summary afterwards... and was told there would be no summary since it wasn't that kind of meeting. Then two days ago, she sent me the minutes from it, which was full of decisions about this and that, things that definitely weren't on the agenda for the extra meeting. So I pointed out the decisions weren't valid. And she called the higher ups for help. But they said I was right.
She's been the chairperson for 5 years, and still doesn't know the first thing about the organisation's bylaws, she just makes things up when it suits her! And everybody else looks the other way rather than fight it.
After which she spent all Sunday sending emails to me and eveybody else claiming that she never said I was troublesome, but she was starting to think she should have said so since I always look for faults and errors, and even if she did say it she didn't mean anything bad, it all depends on how one interprets the words 'troublesome' and 'force.' It was really meant as praise! Uhm, really? She added "Discuss the lack of cooperation among members" to that meeting's agenda and invited a guest to back her up, simply in order to praise me? Ten emails later it finished with me saying that "I don't have time for your drivel anymore today, continue on Tuesday if you please. Oh, and don't interpret 'drivel' as anything negative. It's just as much praise as 'troublesome!'" Which was probably stupid of me. But I'm fed up with it all after two years of the same crap, and I'm quitting anyway at the annual meeting in two weeks! 💃
Sorry for the diatribe. I needed to get it out of the system, because it drains my energy to keep it bottled up. Now I'm positive and forward-looking again!
You definitely seem to have your hands full with her, yowsers! Her behavior will likely cause her to crash and burn at some point. Congratulations on your upcoming resignation! Now I get the reference that you made last week! No worries at all about needing to express yourself! It's all good! I understand! I'm happy to lend a digital ear! Yay! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙
Thanks! 💜
You're so welcome! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙