(EMAILWIRE.COM, July 03, 2009 ) Dr. Rick is the Author and Creator of the revolutionary new program Extreme Thought Makeover: 37 Days to Maximum Life! He has created a new genre in learning and expanding one’s thoughts. His 37 Day Program is an interactive life coaching and healing program that combines daily emails, links to his training site, audio files, conference calls, daily lessons and daily actions steps that can transform your thinking, and thus transform your life.

Recently, a mother who was concerned that her teenage daughter didn't take life seriously enough asked Dr. Rick for advice. Specifically, she worried that her daughter was being too passive when it came to not making perfect As in school. This mother was concerned that this attitude could be indicative of some sort of problem; however, Dr. Rick felt that she is not examining the situation closely enough. Perhaps this perceived "problem" is actually a blessing in disguise for her teenage daughter!

"Do you realize that most of us as some time in our youth change from happy and carefree to serious and frustrated? We start to focus on results instead of experiences. We start to focus on the 'end' rather than the journey. We start to worry more about the future than we do enjoying the present," Dr. Rick explained.

Then, usually about the time of our "midlife crisis," we realize that we have been missing so much, and we try to bring our joyful and carefree nature back to us. We realize that the worry is usually wasted because the negative thoughts we have are about things that usually never materialize. We read books, go to workshops, even enter therapy just to be able to appreciate the present and "live in the now" again.

"Well, I suggest that this woman's daughter is a genius! She has found a shortcut through all that, and is really a couple of decades ahead of her peers. She has found a way to avoid all the years of trying to be who she isn't, and has stopped trying to control all that happens around her. If she can hold on to that carefree perspective, life will unfold before her in magical ways," Dr. Rick said, providing some unconventional advice. "Take away all the resistance, and all the intense focus on outcomes, and on things outside of us, and we all become more in alignment with the world, and the true enjoyment and happiness comes from inside of us, not from what happens outside of us. You have heard that it is not what happens to us that makes the difference in our lives, but it is our attitude about what happens that truly makes our lives enjoyable."

It appears that we all take life too seriously. Perhaps we could spend more time just being carefree and enjoying the "now!" Let's all be like this woman's interesting daughter, and spend more time just laughing it off!




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