Hey welcome back. We're all about how to improve your quality of life here at
Live on purpose TV and today is no exception. You can immediately improve
the quality of your life simply by applying 2 principles that are going
on in your mind all of the time. These are obvious but unnoticed. Obvious but
unnoticed. If I get paid to tell people things they already know or to show them
things they already see but there's a lot of obvious things that we don't even
pick up on. The feeling of your clothing right now, can you feel it? Yeah. Is it
obvious? Well, now that I mention it, it is. Wasn't so obvious before I mentioned it.
There are processes going on in our mind, all the time.
You can't turn them off any more than you can turn off gravity. It's going to
happen. But they're unnoticed until they're called your attention. I love the
way metacognition fancy, psychobabble word that means thinking about thinking.
I love the way metacognition increases our awareness of these obvious but
unnoticed processes. So, 2 of them. Let's go over these. Number 1 is evaluation.
You can't turn this off. Any more than you can turn off gravity. It's a natural
law. It's going to happen. By evaluation, I mean judgment. Notice for just a moment
that your own mind is constantly judging you, your life, your circumstances, your
job, your relationships, everything. And we can't turn it off.
You're judging me. It's cool, I'm judging you. We all do it. And we can't turn off.
So, judgment, evaluation. Let's break that down just a little bit. How do we judge
or evaluate our life? Well, notice that the word judgment or evaluation
implies comparison with some standard. Am I a tall man? Well, that depends on who or
what you compare me to. I'm 6 foot 2. Even that is a standard. You can compare me to
that standard in your mind and then you know about how tall I am. Had the honor
and privilege of travelling with Mark Eaton recently. Go look him up
7foot4.com. Yes, he is actually 7 foot 4 in height. As I stand next to mark, I
barely make his shoulder. Am I a tall man? Well, it depends on who or what you
compare me to. And compared to my buddy Mark, I'm not that tall compared to most
other people. I'm pretty tall. You know, above average, anyway. So, notice that as
you evaluate your life, you are making a judgement about it. That judgment is
based on some standard to which you compare your life. The whole thrust of
this video is how to improve your quality of life. What if you believed or
took the position that your life is awesome. How would that improve the
quality of your life If you believed it? See, quality of life is usually drained
or sapped or sucked away by the judgment that, "Ugh, this is bad." Is it? Notice that we
use our imagination. Okay, it's a tool. Really, a mental tool that we use to do
the judgment or the evaluation. We can always imagine something better or
something worse than what we've already got. So, let's just try this right now as
you're watching this video. What is it in your life that you've been looking at
and thinking, "Oh, this is bad." Now, I don't do this to minimize
the pain or the challenge or the difficulty that you're going through
right now. That's not why I'm doing this. I want you to see this process, so that
you're in a position to make a choice. I'm not here to tell you how to think. I
do not have that kind of authority. I do however, want you to see and notice that
you are thinking. In noticing that, turning on the metacognition. Notice that
your judgment of your life right now falls somewhere. If you're saying that
this is bad, you're probably comparing it to
something better. When we compare what we've got to something better, how do we
feel about what we've got? Huh! This is not so good. And it's not compared to
something better. Pause, turn the other way. How do we feel
when we compare what we've got to something worse? On my podcast, Liive on
Purpose Radio, I recently interviewed Carol Decker. She has a book called
Unshattered. Carol went through a horrendous experience with sepsis. In
which she came out of that experience has a triple amputee blind young mother
of 2. Can you imagine that? Well, yes you can. I described it to you. But you can
imagine it? Can you imagine having both of your feet and your left hand
amputated? Yeah, you can imagine it and as some of you are like, "No, I can't
imagine it." Yes, you can. How many limbs do you have? Well, statistically speaking, you
probably have more than that, don't you? When you compare what you've got to
something that seems worse, how do you feel about what you got? Grateful. You get
grateful for where you are right now. Do you see how this immediately, immediately
improves your quality of life and we didn't change anything. Except the way
that we're doing the judgment. just want you to notice it. because this sets us up
for what's next. the second process that I wanted to
share with you here today is called creation. And you can't turn this one off
either. Your mind is constantly creating. Not what is. I mean, that already exists.
I'm talking about what is to be. And that doesn't exist yet.
We haven't created it yet. Our imagination, you remember the tool? Our
imagination that we use to judge our life, is also the imagination tool that
we take to the creation game. Because to create something, you have to imagine it
first. And everything that's created had to be imagined first. Check in with that
and see if it's true. Because I think it is. We created here first in our mind and
then we go out and move elements around to form something that looks like the
picture we've already imagined. That's how creation works. Where's your life
going from here? How you doing next week? You don't know? Oh, you've got something
to do with it? Please don't forget that. But you don't know. So, the only place
that that future state exists right now is in your own imagination. How do you
feel when you imagine, because you don't know, that what's coming is worse than
what you've already got. How do you feel? This my friends is anxiety. It's that
foreboding the kind of fearful feeling about what's coming. Because it's going to
be worse than what I've already got. You don't know that. But when you imagine it,
you create that anxiety feeling. How do you feel when you imagine, because you
don't know, that what's coming for you is better than what you've already got? How
do you feel? Yeah, hope, eagerness, excitement, anticipation.
You don't know. So, take a position about that. You want to immediately improve
your quality of life? First of all, get into evaluation mode where you can see
that it's already awesome. And it is compared to something worse. Alright?
Feel that, push the pause button and stay there for a few minutes and just notice
how blessed and how abundant and how rich your life is. And even with the
difficulties, you still got a lot of good things going on and it could always be
worse. Enjoy that because life happens now not after you fix it. Now, where to
from here? Hmm, let's see. Do I want to create something worse or something
better than what I've already got? Well, duh! So, we turn that same imagination
around in creation mode to start picturing and imagining and creating
something even better than what we've already got. Awesome. This is how in your
own mind, you can improve your quality of life right now, right here, today. Without
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