Life is Always Working for You, Not Against You
SUMMARY
“Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.” – Martin Luther
Key #3: Life is Always Working For You, Not Against You.
I want to share with you the one belief that has transformed the way I live my life. It’s allowed me to be present for myself and others and to enjoy every moment. It’s helped me to overcome being controlled by fear and worry and anxiety (I’m a former worry addict!) It has helped me massively transform my personal relationships, career, wealth and health. It has added tremendous joy, excitement, curiosity and passion and has helped me strengthen my faith beyond what I ever could have possibly imagined.
Here it is (drum roll):
Life is ALWAYS working for you, not against you.
‘Sure David’, I hear you thinking. “That sounds good, but it’s not always working for you.” ‘Yes’, I confidently smile back at you. “ALWAYS.
In my seminar I teach a framework called the Higher Power System. The framework explains how every circumstance and experience in your life is spiritually designed to help you. It may not always be obvious at the time. We may not have planned on losing our job, or getting that bill in the mail, or finding out that our partner is going to leave us.So often in the moment we cannot possibly see anything positive about what is happening to us. But think about all of those times now … Can you see how each of those experiences has given you something that you needed in your life today? When one job didn’t work out, didn’t you eventually find one that did, and wasn’t it even better for you than the one you didn’t get? What about relationships? Hasn’t each one helped you to become a better you, and wasn’t each new partner a better version of the prior?
Even if you lost all of your wealth (like I did), didn’t you learn what not to do and aren’t you able to build up that wealth again (you already did it once, right?) Skeptics will think that this universal statement – that Life is ALWAYS working for you, not against you.– is positive thinking. I’m not interested in positive thinking, I’m interested in creating the best life I can possibly live and understanding the principles that get me there.
THIS IS THE NUMBER ONE PRINCIPLE. If you understand this principle your entire perspective on life changes.
Just over five years ago I was not a spiritual person. The concept of faith made little logical sense to me. Faith in what? But time and time again I’ve seen how every incident in my life was guiding me towards becoming the person I am today – and I would never trade who I’ve become for an easier past. Just two years ago my business went through what I thought at the time was a total meltdown. My business partner had been mismanaging the business and literally stopped showing up for work. Within one week 50% of my business completely evaporated and I had to start financing the business off of my small savings. I was forced to single handedly figure out the mess that he left behind and spent an entire year just trying to get things back to where I thought they already were. Can you imagine spending an entire year to get back to where you thought you were? I spent an entire week just going through credit card statements to find fraudulent and unnecessary recurring charges. I didn’t even have the passwords to access most of our systems and online accounts. I woke up in the middle of the night with panic attacks for almost 9 months. It was a nightmare. But looking back – there it was – Life was ALWAYS working for me, not against me.
I learned so much from that experience about the intricate details of the business. By the time I was done I knew every aspect of that business like the back of my hand and eventually grew it larger than ever before. I learned what not to do with a business and that has enabled me to build my latest business much smarter, and faster. Most importantly I learned that I honestly didn’t love that business anymore. This realization led me to start exploring what I was really passionate about, and considering how I could create real, positive impact on people’s lives. That question led me to where I am today: inspiring, supporting and connecting with passionate people who want to create and live their highest version of themselves – and I love it! I can hardly consider it a job, and it provides more for me than I could have ever possibly imagined. All because of my business meltdown.
Life is ALWAYS working for you, not against you.
Even our addictions – can you see how life was working to give you recovery? I wouldn’t wish addiction on ANYONE, but I pray for recovery for EVERYONE!
Next time you think life is working against you do yourself (and life) a favor. Give yourself a little bit more time before making judgment. Perhaps that problem isn’t really a problem at all. In fact I’m willing to suggest it’s not and I’m pretty freakin’ confident about it. Because Life is ALWAYS working for you, not against you.
Where are you seeing problems in your life that might not actually be problems? What challenges are you currently facing that might be teaching you something that you really need to learn based on where you want to go with your life? What situation in the past seemed like a problem, but became a blessing?
Today’s Distinction
Life is ALWAYS working for you, not against you… Duh.
