Choosing "Not" and Enabling So

Here's an excerpt from an interesting little book titled, What's it Like Being You? Living Life as your True Self, by John-Roger with Paul Kaye:

"There's a simple but powerful exercise you can use in any situation to move out of the false self and into the true self. Say you are driving and someone cuts in front of you, or you are stuck in traffic when you have an important appointment to get to, or your boss is really on your case, or you're calling your health insurer and get stuck in an automated-phone-system nightmare, whatever the situation, just say three words: I love this. Repeat this phrase in a neutral way, whether you mean it or not. This can be said silently or aloud."

What derails you? What takes you out of your game? Away from your Best Self? If you're like most, it's not what actually happens - or what doesn't happen - it's your interpretation of what's happening. (See: More on Success (and Failure); Good News (and Bad) - a blog post of mine from September, 2003.)

Combining the above, I'm doing an experiment this week where my interpretation-of-choice for whatever is - or is not - happening is, "I love this!" and you know what? A lot of cool things are happening for me. Coincidence? Maybe. But given a choice between getting aggravated about things, or not ... well, I'm choosing "not."

I like how this experiment is going. Check that, I love this!

And you? What are you experimenting with this week? There's still plenty of time to test something, you know.