Is Your Life A Struggle?

April 15, 2010

Interview with Michael Neill, author of the book Supercoach: 10 Secrets to Transform Anyone's Life

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Mike Carruthers:
Life can seem like a struggle much of the time but maybe it’s how we look at it.

Michael Neill:
Most people look at life and they think that if they can just get things to line up a certain way on the outside they’ll get to experience the feelings that they want to have on the inside.
 

Michael Neill, author of the book Supercoach: 10 Secrets to Transform Anyone's Life …

But what actually seems to happen is whatever it is that is going on inside you becomes the fuel and the flavor of whatever gets created on the outside. And when you stop looking outside yourself to find happiness you recognize that you were born happy and anything you can achieve with unhappiness you can usually achieve much easier from a place of happiness.

Everyone faces problems but Michael says we tend to make those problems much bigger than they really are.

Most of what we experience is the wildebeest at the door is our own dark imaginings. It’s our own insecure thinking, made real, by the fact that we focus on it – and what we focus on starts to feel real to us.

When you make being happy the priority in life, everything else seems to fall into place.

When the context for your life is well being then other things they just aren’t as important – they just don’t have that same weight. If there’s something that needs to be dealt with you’ll still deal with it but you recognize that it isn’t the “be all” and the “end all”. It isn’t the thing that you have to sort out or you’ll never be happy again. It’s just a thing that needs to be handled and the great thing is most things can be handled.

To hear the complete unedited interview, click here