Dr. Maggie Gilewicz: How To Make Sure Your Life Doesn't Suck
There is only this present moment. Our entire life – indeed the entire history of time – is made up of a long series of present moments. But we can only exist, and live, and take action, in one moment at a time.
And then we find ourselves in the next moment. And the one after that.
And in each moment, we have a vast array of choices. We can choose action or inaction (though inaction is still an action of sorts). We can choose love or fear. We can choose cowardice or courage. We can choose vanilla or chocolate chip. We can choose to get up when the alarm goes off, or to hit snooze.
We can choose a life that happens to us, or for us.
Fundamental to all of these choices is our perspective. Do we choose an ‘outside in’ perspective, where we are subject to our circumstances, to the things that happen to us, to all the things that are beyond our control? Or do we choose an ‘inside out’ perspective, where we understand that our situation, our circumstances, and our view of reality, are based largely on how we perceive the world, of how we view both our internal and external stimuli and processes?
In this episode of my podcast, I speak with Dr. Maggie Gilewicz, the author of the book “How to Make Sure Your Life Doesn’t Suck.” Her book goes into great detail about how our experience of life is largely made up of the thoughts in our heads, and that we can influence these thoughts, and therefore the life we live. That by developing self-awareness we notice when we are reacting, and choose instead to respond with measure and, ultimately, hat the way we feel is not the result of things beyond our control that happen outside us, such as our circumstances or the way other people behave, but a result of our internal processes. And we have a say over these processes.
Enjoy this conversation, and hopefully it will encourage you to take ownership over how you feel, how you live, and how life shines on you.
For more information:
Maggie’s website at: www.maggiegilewicz.com
Buy the book: www.amazon.co.uk/Make-Sure-Your-Life-Doesnt/dp/B083XVDZ9T/