Healthy Bite 031 - Change Your Life in an Instant

Super Simple Healthy Podcast

“Trade Your Expectation for Appreciation and Your Life will change in an instant.”- Tony Robbins. I thought that was quite an appropriate quote for the spirit of the season, and today we are going to talk about three decisions you make every day that can change your life in an instant. Expectation vs Appreciation Trade your expectation for appreciation and your life will change in an instant. What does this mean and why is it important to your life? Sometimes it seems life can be unfair. Every person is born with unique abilities and gifts that are meant to be shared and used to the best of their abilities. Yet somewhere along their journey challenges arise, even tragedy. It can be very difficult at the time these moments occur to see that each one holds a gift. When I was a junior and senior in high school, I worked as a cashier at our local grocery store. One year, a couple of days after Thanksgiving, a woman came in steaming mad asking to talk to a manager. In her arms, she carried a large unfrozen, uncooked, turkey. She stood there yelling at the manager that their Thanksgiving had been ruined because the bird she bought was bad. They had a house full of relatives and friends and they all had to work together at the last minute to come up with whatever else they had on hand in order to feed everyone. Now, I understand. On Thanksgiving Day, we expect the Turkey with stuffing and gravy and all the other delicious sides that come with it. My mom makes her famous “jello mold” and I love my sister’s cranberry nut bread. And if you look on my Super Simple Healthy Facebook page, you’ll see a video showcasing my famous “sneaky” mashed potatoes. But at that moment as I stood there in the grocery store as this woman was screaming, almost in tears, I couldn’t help but think she’d rather missed the point. What if, instead of focusing on the “bad bird” that ruined their Thanksgiving, she had focused on the fact that she had all her friends and family under one roof. And in spite of no turkey, they still had enough food to feed everyone. Not everyone, even in this country can say that. She chose not to focus on the fact that no one got sick, or that she has a place where she can go – one store where she can simply choose all of her food. She doesn’t have to spend hours, weeks, months, planting and growing all that food. It’s just there. And she has a car to bring her there. And a warm home in the middle of a chill fall night where she and her family will sleep. And this is certainly a Thanksgiving her whole family will be able to remember for years to come – where they all had to come together and get creative in the kitchen. They may even look back and laugh about it. There are things we expect to happen throughout our lives. We expect to make the team, get into a certain school, receive a promotion at work, or find that certain someone with whom to spend the rest of your life with and raise a family. But instead we may get cut from the team, turned down by the school, looked over for the promotion, or get a divorce. Your life is shaped by the decisions you make. But there are three decisions you make every day that shape your destiny. First, what are you going to focus on? (didn’t make the team OR l Iearned so much from that and made some new friends, now I’ll have more time to practice my drums) Second decision: What does this mean? (I’m not good enough, I’ll never move up, OR how can I improve, is it time for a new job or new skills?) And the third decision: What am I going to do? (get upset, yell, complain, feel like a failure, OR appreciate all that you DO have – and get a refund on the bird!)