The world reflects back at us what we currently are,

like a giant mirror projecting the movie that's playing in our heads.

We lay on the horn in traffic, not when we're at peace with ourselves, but when we're in duress.

We gravitate towards the negative, not when we're living in abundance,

but when we're living in scarcity.

We quit, retreat, contract, not when we're confident in the road ahead,

but when we're doubtful, alarmed.

In other words, we find out in the world what already lives within us.

Life in many ways is not absolute.

It's evidence.

It's evidence that we'll use to justify the things we already believe. Wayne Dyer used to use the metaphor of an orange.

It can be squeezed and squeezed and squeezed, but there will never be grapefruit juice pouring out of an orange.

No, grapefruit juice doesn't live there.

You can only find on the outside what lives in the inside.

You can only extract from the orange orange juice.

Recently a good friend of mine said to me that they'd like to change their financial situation.

To which my response was perfect. You most certainly can, right? Like anything, yeah, it'll take work and some planning and some restructuring.

All that good stuff, but you most definitely can. And his response was, sure, that's what all you motivational people say.

Okay, smart guy.

Now you're an example on a podcast episode.

Congrats.

Why?

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