149 The End

We can handle changing diapers because we know there’s an end to this.

We know setting up a new business takes time but does not go on forever.

A friend with chronic headaches said the worse part was thinking there’d be no end to them.

That he’d have them for ‘the-rest-of-his-life’.

In WWII concentration camps, those who said the ‘Allies’ were coming any-day-now survived.

Those who thought their horrible conditions would never end, died.

Sounds harsh but it’s true. (read: Man’s Search for Meaning, Frankl)

Your attitude changes dramatically whether you choose to believe something is a new way-of-life or just a temporary thing. (Losing a job, for instance.)

Determining when something ends achieves two things:

A far better everyday feeling because you know something undesirable will end.

You soon find yourself setting interim ‘goals’ to achieve this end.

So choose a situation which needs changing and determine when it will end.

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These are related:

# 7 Disaster – 19 Expectations – 20 The ‘Gift’ of Knowledge – 22 Attitude

32 Red Light, Green Light – 44 After – 79 Truth Time – 93 Heaven & Hell