#27 | 5 Sentences That Re-Wired My Brain

And that is that your experience of life is not a result of what happens to you.

It's a result of how you respond to what happens to you.

Period.

You know, and I think perfect example of what I was saying in terms of these one-liners really just shift how we show up to the world.

If you are in a situation of your life where, like, the worst-case scenario happens or potentially when you think to your upbringing or childhood experiences or being fired from that job or being cheated on by that partner or that friendship breaking down or anything in your life, whether it be past or present, that is, quote-unquote, negative.

And an experience in isolation can be negative, right? So in terms of the thing that happened can very well be a negative thing that happened.

However, the only thing that is going to determine the outcome of that experience after the fact is how you as the individual choose to show up and respond to it.

And what happens doesn't create your life.

Your actions around and toward what happens creates your life afterwards, right? And I think when you remember this, and again, like that one line, if you can have it in your mind, Your life isn't a result of what happens.

It's a result of how you respond to what happens.

It reminds you that it doesn't matter what happens, right? Because everyone's going to have shit that happens to them.

Everyone is going to have a hard day.

Everyone's going to have a hard experience.

Everyone has had their own experience of hard and shit in their life.

And that's guaranteed.

That is absolute.

But what is up for, up to you more so is your response to that thing.

And what I always love to draw back on in this is an example of, I wish I could remember what book it was.

I believe, I can't, I have to remember.

I can't remember what book it was, but basically they were talking about this situation where there's this two people, like same age, same job, same income, whatever.

And they both get let go of their job.

the same situation happened to both people, right? One person, like person A, from that moment, 30 years later, you have a conversation with them and they're saying, I am the way that I am because I got fired from my dream role 30 years ago.

And from that point, everything went to shit.

I really struggled financially.

My boss was an asshole.