Circle of Trust

For my COT I wanted to start with this quote “What goes around comes around.  Keep your circle positive.  Say good words.  Think good thoughts.  Do good deeds.”

When I was a sad clown, I would let my bitch ass get negative and stay down thinking and saying negative things all the time.  I worried about and let myself become upset by things that I had no control over.  Anxiety attacks put me in the hospital twice.

The enlightened Foundation here before you now has the guardrails in place to not let that crap take over and ruin my day and turn to negativity.  It’s not that bad things stopped happening.  Shit happens but I don’t worry about stuff that I can’t control.  It works.

Here’s an example from the other day.  Some cotton headed ninnymonger decided to steal the catalytic converter off my car at 11am in the parking lot in front of my office building in Naperville.  The old me would have let it upset me and gotten worked up over this.  I would have been short and less than polite with the insurance people that I went back and forth with for several hours that day.   I would have been less than cordial with the property management company who owns my building.  But this is the awesome chill Foundation that you see before you.  I was very polite and cordial to all of them.  I didn’t let it upset me.  How would that help the situation in any way?  It wouldn’t get my car fixed quicker or anything and none of these people did anything to me.

So what happened?  The building management said that it is not their company policy to assist in a situation like this but they felt bad about it and want to help me.  They gave me Visa gift cards that added up to approximately the amount of what I will owe after my deductible.  They didn’t have to do this.  Do you think that they would have done this if I was short and rude on the phone in my dealings with them?   I stayed positive through the process and didn’t worry about things out of my control and it worked out in the end.

I want you is to think of a recent time when something crappy happened that was out of your control.  Did you dwell on it and become upset worrying about things that you can’t control?  Did it help?

My challenge is to not get caught up dwelling on the negative the next time something bad happens that is out of your control.  Focus on not worrying about things you can’t control and focusing on the positive aspects of whatever you are going through.

Aye?

F3 is not a religious organization but we will end in a prayer.  You’re welcome to join or take a minute to connect with your sky Q.  Are there an intentions we can acknowledge?