Be Where Your Feet Are

Be Where Your Feet Are explores the enlightening life lessons that one of America’s top-tier sports personalities has to give, from being present in the moment and living in a meaningful way, to achieving a more fulfilling and successful life.

When you’re a good person at heart, life gets better. That is because, as the law of attraction states, you get what you give and what you think of. For better or for worse, being a good person and assuming that others are as well will lighten up everyone’s day.

It will help you keep anger and resentment away during the day. And it will let people know that you’re being nice to them and that they should reciprocate kindness and respect towards you. Moreover, assuming doesn’t necessarily imply that something is not true.

For example, someone could cut in line at the coffee shop, or forget to hold the door for you. You could start off with the premise that they’re in a hurry or they had something on their mind. That may have distracted them from what they were doing. The truth is not yours to hold, after all. And the best thing you can do is assume people don’t have bad intentions.

Sometimes it takes a lot of strength to leave judgment aside and see the best in people. This can happen because we got hurt as a result of a similar situation or we’re having a bad day ourselves. We can only hope that in such circumstances, someone will see the best in us and choose to assume we’re not badly intended ourselves.

Whether we like it or not, we are going to encounter many failed attempts in our endeavors. That’s just how life works, and we have no control over that. However, what we do have control over is how we react to those failures. If we change the way we respond to life’s challenges, we can learn to fail productively. Don’t start with the premise that only defeated people fail. It is in fact those who set goals and have ambitions that fail more often. And that’s simply because they have more occasions to do so. Still, those who choose to take failure as a lesson, instead of a disappointment, or as an opportunity, instead of a setback, are on the winning side. Why is that? Because as we try and see which methods work for us and which don’t, we leave less space for mistakes in our next attempt. Eventually, we will succeed in breaking a certain barrier and end up achieving what we set our mind to. That is, of course, if we keep on trying and analyze our mistakes on the…