Where Are You Hoping For The Lotto Ticket?
This week’s Tough Love Thursday let’s ask ourselves “where am I looking for the lotto ticket?”
What I mean by this is what area of your life are you hoping it will just solve itself, or someone will just take care of it 100%?
It could be you're hoping one activity will give you perfect clarity of mind. Or that one person can solve your loneliness, one conversation repairs your relationships, one change fixes your nutrition and health, or maybe you're hoping for the lotto ticket to solve all your financial woes!
We do this when we feel powerless, or when it seems the energy expended isn't worth the pay off. The thing is the energy and time we waste wanting things to be fixed ends up costing us more in the long run.
For the longest time I was like this with my mindset and mental health - I wanted someone else to fix it, and very often fantasised that the next person or next event would give me the peace I was looking for. But it was never going to be one thing. It was a few key actions, applied in the correct order and given enough time to work. When I committed to small actions consistently applied that’s when I got the results I needed.
Once we've become aware of where we're wishing for the magical fix, we can then start accepting where we are, and reassuring ourselves that small fixes added up will ultimately have an impact. It can also help to think of other areas where you consistently put in the work and eventually saw the reward.
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