Look for the lost gold

Look for the lost gold

When I am happy, I see the happiness in others. When I am
compassionate, I see the compassion in other
people. When I am full of energy and hope, I see opportunities all
around me.

But when I am angry, I see other people as unnecessarily testy. When I
am depressed, I notice that people's eyes look sad. When I am weary, I
see the world as boring and unattractive.
Who I am is what I see!

If I drive into Phoenix and complain, "What a crowded, smog-ridden
mess this place is!" I am really expressing what a crowded, smog-ridden
mess I am at that moment. If I had been feeling motivated that day, and
full of hope and happiness, I could just as easily have said, while driving
into Phoenix, "Wow, what a thriving, energetic metropolis this is!"
Again, I would have been describing my inner landscape, not Phoenix's.
Our self-motivation suffers most from how we choose to see the
circumstances in our lives. That's because we don't see things as they
are, we see things as we are.

In every circumstance, we can look for the gold, or look for the filth.
And what we look for, we find. The best starting point for
self-motivation is in what we choose to look for in what we see around
us. Do we see the opportunity everywhere?

"When I open my eyes in the morning," said Colin Wilson, "I am not
confronted by the world, but by a million possible worlds."
It is always our choice. Which world do we want to see today?
Opportunity is life's gold. It's all you need to be happy. It's the fertile
field in which you grow as a person. And opportunities are like those
subatomic quantum particles that come into existence only when they
are seen by an observer. Your opportunities will multiply when you
choose to see them.

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