Welcome back to Practicing Human, the podcast where every day we are getting a little better at life.

I'm your host, Corey Muscarra, and today I'm going to share a simple mindset shift that can change how you experience really everything in your life.

Before we go into that, let's first settle in with the sound of the bells. Do you ever find yourself caught in the mindset of why is this happening to me?

If so, I'd say you're in good company

because I think most of us can fall into that perspective.

Especially when difficult events compound.

It can feel like the world is out to get us. But when we go through life

with the perspective that things are happening to us, it can keep us bound to a victim-like mentality which presupposes a helplessness.

There's a different perspective we can take though that I find much more empowering and this is when we shift the perspective that life is happening to us to life is happening for us. Now this perspective is not my idea. I've

first cleaned it from Tony Robbins and although I think a lot of what he teaches is a bit controversial

this was one idea that stood out to me because it's incredibly simple but

when applied can transform your relationship to nearly everything in your life.

Because as soon as something is happening for you, well, that means that there is a lesson there.

There is an opportunity.

There is a challenge.

And that itself presupposes that we're capable of meeting it,

and that we could potentially be stronger on the other side.

This is very different than just feeling like life is happening to us and we have to take it

hit after hit after hit. What if life was happening for us and every hit was

actually an opportunity to rise up, to learn about ourselves, to grow mentally, emotionally, spiritually.

Well, I don't know about you, but that immediately feels empowering to me.

And in a weird twisted way almost makes me excited about the challenges in my life.

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