by Cassie Howard | Feb 11, 2018 | Business Basics |
If there’s one thing that’ll get me hittin’ the BLOCK button at lightening speed is if I hear you complain about how your life is so damn hard. BOO-FREAKIN’-HOO. We all have hard stuff that we go through; doesn’t mean that life overall is hard. The truth is that life is only as hard as you decide it is. Which also means that life can also be as EASY as you decide it is. Just a few years ago, I was one of the most bitter, angry, negative people you could ever have the misfortune of bumping into. Everything set me off. I was angry all of the time, and people noticed and would ask me why I was like that.. to which I honestly didn’t have an answer. It was easier, I guess? Easier than figuring out exactly why I WAS that way, and what I needed to do to turn things around. It was so much easier to just stick to my guns and complain, than it was to do something differently. Plus, doing something differently would mean I was doing things wrong, and I don’t like to be wrong. It wasn’t until I stumbled upon the coaching industry and found my first mentor, which was (and is) the most positive, upbeat person I’ve ever met in my life. She turned things around for me - just being around her and in her energy changed me as a person. I’ve since met SO many other people who are similar. Happy. Positive. High on life. And want to know something funny? I didn’t even have to learn HOW to be...