When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Them Into a Margarita

This article is about the cause and effect side of the equation.

You can't physically see anything outside of you that is not you. However, we are constantly being bombarded by over two million bits of intangible information every second of every day via our five senses. In order to manage this overwhelmingly vast amount of information, your nervous system deletes, distorts and generalizes it. As a result, you are actually only aware of a small fraction of your total incoming data.

What We Look For, We Find. In addition, of our deleted data, we are actually conditioned to leave out the same information each time it is processed. Thus, some people always see only what there is to be upset or depressed about in life, whereas other people only see happiness and opportunities.

Everything is your responsibility; nothing is your fault We create everything in our experience either through our actions or through our non-actions. At some level, we have chosen everything that happens in our experience, whether consciously or unconsciously, for a grander purpose. Don't ask, ~Why did I create this?' Instead, ask yourself, "How did I create this reality and what do I want to create instead?"

Where is Your Flashlight of Focus Directed? Even though we have the ability to change Our conscious focus, 95 percent of the drivers that determine where we focus are unconscious, All of reality changes based on who or what is looking at it. We don't see things are they are, we see things as we are. So, if you want to change your surround¬ings, you must change what is inside of you.

Are you the cause or the effect of things in your life?

Cause; I have created what is in my life?

Effect: I would have done, been, seen, succeeded, etc., but..

Being at cause in life is simply a way of looking at the world that will support you in being empowered. When you are on the cause side of the equation, you take responsibility for the things that occur in your life and take action to make a change for the better.