Imagine this setting. Lying on Treasure Island’s sun-drenched shores, Jack and Teresa thought this holiday in tropical Fiji would solve their lack of motivation and discontent. It’s hard to imagine a more relaxing place to achieve this than Fiji.
After two weeks of bliss, it appeared they had got it right. Jack was already experiencing a mental hangover from the self-induced state of joyful euphoria and had the islanders mystified with his perpetual grin.
However, by the end of the following month, when he was back home, things were back to normal. The old sense of being unfulfilled or bored had returned.
Why are so many people not happy?
Are most people truly happy? Many might say they are, but beneath the appearance of contentment, there’s proof of something else — the silent weight of unmet potential and a lingering sense of being unfulfilled.
The surfeit of available self-help motivational books belies the reality of the situation. If not, then why are so many of them running to doctors for a truckload of Prozac, consulting therapists and marriage counsellors? Why are so many admitting to a sense of helplessness, emptiness, or futility?
This worldwide disease costs billions of dollars each year in both physical and mental health.
Whilst a great deal of the problem lies at the door of health and physical fitness, the problem is much deeper yet easy to resolve. Many unwittingly choose the state they are in by their programmed negative expectations.
They form pictures of their future with limitations in their minds. It is important to remember that a person will always perform and relate to others consistently based on the image they hold of themselves. If that image has no limitations and is full of positive expectations for their future, they can achieve almost anything.
If their picture is limiting, they will be restricted in their achievements and personal relationships until a significant change occurs in their belief system.
How does one go about this? Is there a quick fix, a mental Prozac?
Look out for the answer in Part Two tomorrow. This one is getting a bit long for a Monday morning 🙂
