Chapter 7. The Way Things Are: Sometimes settling for the way things are is a lowering of expectations, sometimes it’s finding a starting point so that one can make things better. Where are you in this continuum?
Chapter 8. Giving Way to Passion: Control says that the only way to avoid disappointment and frustration is to not care at all. No hits, no runs, but most importantly, no errors. What are you doing in your daily life that expresses your passion or the things you are passionate about?
Chapter 9. Lighting a Spark. It’s not about us. It’s about them. What are you doing to pay-forward from your universe of possibility?
I commented:
Sometimes realizing the way things are CAN BE a lowering of expectations, if you want to look at it that way. However, sometimes you have no choice to accept things for the way they are and be happy with it. We can't be constantly reminding ourselves how we 'settled'. For example, I am not going to waste one second wondering why I am not married to Jaime Pressly. If you don't know who that is, she's way hotter, talented, and accomplished than I am. She's a movie star, etc. It will NEVER happen on this or any other parallel universe, and...I am OK with that. Did that make any sense?
Anyway, some people, I think need to accept the way things are, too. I think they'd be alot happier. I quote a line from 'Fight Club', a story about a bunch of repressed men looking to flex their own primal existences, "We were raised by television to believe that someday we'll all be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars -- but we won't. And we're learning that fact. And we're very, *very* pissed-off."
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