"It comes down to how we work WITHIN ourselves..."

I heard, Ryan Holiday (author and modern day stoic) speaking on the Dan Harris podcast a while back, and he said something profound. I'm paraphrasing here but this is the idea of the discussion...

"EVERY era/generation in history was living in a time where they thought the world was ending, chaos was rampant and we were nearing the end. It's no different today. We just have it thrown in our faces regularly all day long. It's all comes down to how we work within ourselves."

That's a powerful statement folks. The "change" for us is the fact that many of us reading this post, remember a time in our life where all the chaos and stress of the world came AFTER it happened, and you'd really only here about the BIGGEST stories. Those stories when you did hear about them, would also be more in depth with details for you. Today, we get EVERYTHING in our face 24/7. There's NO break ....

UNLESS WE CONCIOUSLY TAKE A BREAK.

I believe Ryan's statement here that our world is NOT different in the sense that there was always this "chaotic-the-world-is-ending" kind of feel for humans. But now we TAKE ON the stress of things on the other side of the world, DAILY. Hell, our conversations are consumed by what's happening in ANOTHER country MORE than our own today! People get divided because of politics in ANOTHER country that they don't even live in!!! That's wild. And it's all because it's accessible to us. It's in our face constantly.

THE CHANGE we seek in how we FEEL, ACT and how we perceive our HEALTH and WELLBEING on the whole, will NOT happen on it's own, and it certainly WILL NOT happen from external factors.

HEALTH and WELLBEING and who YOU ARE as an individual comes from WITHIN YOU.

The ATTITUDE we bring into EACH and EVERY SINGLE DAY, comes from WITHIN YOU.

The energy that we project onto others, comes from WITHIN YOU.

Take Ryan Holiday's message with you moving forward. Our world has ALWAYS had it's struggles and stresses. HOW we take in and HOW we LET information affect us is what is different.