<p><strong>Imagine two buckets.</strong></p> <p>On each there is a label that reads:</p> <p>🪣 - Bucket #1: Things you CAN change</p> <p>🪣 - Bucket #2: Things you CAN’T change</p> <p>You can only choose to carry one around with you at any given moment.</p> <p><strong>Some things that always are within reach for you within bucket #1:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Your response to the things that happen</li> <li>The story you tell yourself about what is happening or has happened</li> <li>What you choose to make / build / think about/ do</li> <li>Your next decision</li> </ul> <p><strong>Some things that always out of your reach, deep in the endless bottom of bucket #2:</strong></p> <ul> <li>What other people think of you or your ideas</li> <li>What other people make / build / think about/do</li> <li>What the weather does</li> <li>What your favorite (or least favorite) sports team/politician/religious leader/business does</li> <li>The events of the past</li> <li>Basically everything else</li> </ul> <p>When you’re focused on the things in Bucket #1 🪣, you will feel empowered, centered, (mostly) at peace, and in a state of flow and presence.</p> <p>When you’re focused on the things in Bucket #2🪣, you will feel powerless, scattered, afraid, frustrated, disappointed, angry, and in a state of chaos, anxiety, and distraction.</p> <p>Accepting (and yes, perhaps even embracing) the things you can’t change — and then acting accordingly — isn’t a sign of weakness.</p> <p>It’s the only thing that will actually leave you feeling empowered out of that hole 🕳 you’ve found yourself stuck in.</p> <p>The first step to getting out of a hole is to stop pretending you’re not in one in the first place.</p> <p>The question then becomes: what are you going to do about it?</p> <p>You’ve got two buckets in that hole with you.</p> <p>Only one of them will help you get out of it.<br> <br> <strong>Links:<br> The Science of Getting Rich: www.scienceofgettingrich.info<br> Connect with me: www.ryanjrhoades.com<br> Online store: www.rdshop.biz</strong><br> </p>