Carrying Yesterday's Potatoes

Remember your first kiss and your first big disappointment. Two opposite feelings. Remember the lightness and exhilaration of the unexpected feeling of young love in the pit of your stomach. It was overwhelming. A complete mystery. It was so great and big and well … it was everything. Your stomach turning around and around. Like most young minds you tried to rationalize it and contain it. It was a feeling that almost instantly became too much to handle. It was a wondrous feeling of losing control, floating, no restrictions and our minds did not like this one bit. No sir. It was not quantifiable, so it had to go.

Think back a bit, bad feelings have very similar symptoms.

So how can two such opposites create such similar reactions to such different scenarios? There is a common element. A singular consciousness, that drives out the mundane and forces options and choices right in our faces.

Change. The more you do it, the more you achieve. You can receive more, give more. Change never comes empty-handed. It always comes bearing gifts.

On the one hand you may choose the gift you know, your age old friend ... the potato. The gift of the known past. The potato will always have one thing attached to it; the fear of the unknown.

Or, you may choose the gift of getting out of your comfort zone, ready to grasp the change of extraordinary greatness!

1. Take a Deep Breath

2. Write one sentence to identify the common trend between your stories you tell people?

3. Breathe Deeply

4. Ask yourself, do you wish to change the trend?

5. Breathe

It is important to breathe, for obvious reasons. However remember that you can only breathe now, not yesterday. Only now.

You now have the keys to the castle.