Master the Meaning of Your Life (Motivational Speech)

It seems these days less and less people take responsibility for their lives
It seems these days less and less people master their emotions
They don't run their lives, they allow life to run them

Their problems are blamed on everyone and everything
But they never take responsibility for their own lives
Most importantly, they never take responsibility for how they feel
Does life happen to you? Or does life happen for you?
The answer you give that question, will shape your life

Do you believe everything happens for a reason that benefits you in some way?
Or do you believe life is hard and you are at the mercy of a little thing called luck?
What if every painful experience in your life
Was actually sent to benefit you
To make you stronger
To make you wiser
To make you better

What if the challenge you are facing was sent to make you stronger
What if the difficult person was actually sent to teach you something
Compassion, patience, a reminder of how not to treat people
What if the lost you experience was sent to make you appreciate life more

The way we feel about everything in our lives is our live
The truth is every human being decides how they are going to live their lives
Because we all decide the meaning we give to each and every moment in our lives
We do not decide what shows up
But we do decide how we show up
We do not decide the circumstances that arise each day
But we absolutely decide how we are going to react to each circumstance

There's no such thing as actual reality
There's only a perception of reality
Think about that
There's no such thing as reality
There is only your version of it

If you think about anything or any event
Your version of it or your opinion of it will be completely different to many other people
Two people could attend the same event
See the same things, speak to the same people and live with absolute opposite thoughts about that event

If they liked the people they spoke to
If they enjoyed the event
How could this be?
It was the same event
It's an interpretation

The meaning both people give that is different
That meaning is based on a life of conditioning
A life of absorbing others opinions and then forming our own
But the point is, we decide that meaning

Bob Marley said, some people dance in the rain, others just get wet
The same is true for every thing in life
Some people drags through life, they get by
Others live life, they make the most of it
They appreciate the little days
Which makes a huge difference in their lives

But don't worry about what other people do
What do you do?
Do you appreciate all the good in your life?
Do you look for the good each day?
Do you wake up expecting great things to come everyday?
Do you feel compassion, when someone is acting in a way that is not to your standards?
Do you believe every tough moments in your life was sent to make you stronger?
And in some way, improve your life?

Every meaning you give to everything in your life, makes your life
Choose your power meanings
Because the better your meanings, the better your life
The stronger your meanings, the stronger your life
It's our decisions not our conditions that control our lives and our destiny