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The Best Psychological Trick I Ever Learned
The Magic of these 3 Words has always helped me: “Okay…now what?”
They may seem like 3 completely innocent and simple words but that’s exactly why they are so beautiful together:
They get right to the core!
Acceptance → Presence → Action
That is what they represent and each of these parts is something most of us miss as we go through in our daily lives.
A large part of negativity and unproductivity first comes from our lack of accepting the negative things in our lives.
We think everything is going great, tell ourselves we are fine and ignore the facts.
We ignore the problems because we interpret too much into them.
Accepting the problem does nothing more than acknowledging it exists.
It does not require you to take any action, does not beget any more problems and does not lead to anything.
Acceptance is just acceptance.
When we don’t accept the problems or difficulties in our life, we only rob ourselves of the option to deal with the real issue.
To fix anything that’s broken you have to accept it’s broken first.
