YoYo’s World

The other day I was listening to this marketing tele-seminar called Guru Mastermind. I was giving this audio file my partially full attention because I hoped to indulge myself with a plethora of marketing knowledge and experience. Interestingly enough I learned more about life than I did marketing and how it really came down to having a good life actually means having good marketing, if you want. The catch that adds the twist and shouts to this new life lesson was having a good life no matter what kind of life you lead…mindset!  

Well, as the two gentlemen were talking, they were discussing their lives in the past and what got them to where they were now, which was sitting on the beach in California watching a beautiful sunset, as told by Frank Kern. Eben Pagan, the gentleman being interviewed, was asked by Frank, in a nutshell, what his thought process was; what were his thoughts and beliefs? Eben answered with a question, “Is the world a friendly place?”  Probably one of the most important questions you can ask yourself, and has really been the most life changing for me, because it really encompasses how you interact with the world. Whenever a loved one passes away, when you break ties with an old friend, or even when the love of your life cheats on you, was all of that just a conspiracy by the universe to make you feel bad? It must be. How can you be going through a divorce and be burying your beloved mother all at the same time? That must be cosmic convergence pointing at you and laughing with her buddies time, money and cellulite saying “Look! I got another one!” Yes, that was dramatic, but dramatic with a purpose. (What can I say? I’m a story teller at heart.)  

As soon as I heard Eben say that, I went the entire day finding myself, in what I perceive ‘undesirable consequences,’ but what took me aback was how I asked myself that question each time; is the world a friendly place? I couldn’t help but smile each time because every single moment that passed where I looked at the world and said, “Hey buddy what’s up? How’s it shakin’ today?” I knew that I was living the life I wanted to live all along. *Ding Ding Ding* Rockets flew, birds soared, (gas)milk was cheaper and all of sudden those gosh darn light bulb jokes made sense; laugh a little, live a little.  

It was one of the most profound changes I think I have ever made and let’s hope it’s not the last one. It was so alleviating to realize that no one was out to get me, so I stopped pointing, staring and crying wolf all the same time. It took too much effort to pursue negative feelings and accuse the universe of a minor setback that I was having with myself. It was my responsibility to fix my circumstances the whole time because I was the only that was capable of doing it, period. No ifs, ands, buts or denial was going to change the life that I had and it certainly wasn’t going to shape that beautiful diamond in the ruff into what I’ve always wanted it to be. The irony of it all was that the uncut diamond I though I saw was really the beautiful 20 billion times infinity karat honker I wanted the whole time.  

The moral of the story is that if you look at the world as a friendly and happy place rather than someone always trying to get back at you, a sense of lightness will develop inside you. There won’t be any need to overreact with little situations and you won’t take the world so seriously. Looking at the world as being good rather than bad let’s you live life.  

So stop being a conspiracy theorist and enjoy yourself gosh darnit! 

My regards,  

YoYo

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