Imagine that you're standing in a completely dark room and in your hand is a flashlight. Everything in your life is in that room: joy, heartbreak, fear, hope, disappointment. Lessons that you've learned and dreams that haven't happened yet. It's all in there, but you can only see what your flashlight is pointed towards. 

Fear has a way of grabbing the flashlight out of our hand and illuminating everything that's missing, everything that's uncertain, and everything that scares us. If your flashlight spends all day looking for what's wrong, that's what you'll experience. If it's looking for reasons life isn't fair, your mind will collect that evidence. 

This isn’t because those are the only things in the room, but because it's where you put your attention. After a while, we forget that we are the ones holding the flashlight.

This episode is all about remembering we get a choice in where we shine our light. We may not get to choose every circumstance, and we absolutely don't get to control the outcome of things, but we almost always have some influence over our perspective. Your flashlight doesn't change what's in the room, it changes your experience of the room, and that perspective shift makes all the difference. 

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