Every day “good” and “bad” stuff happens to us.  It’s inevitable and part of what it means to be human.  Now consider this for a moment: what would your business and life be like if you didn’t label (i.e. identify as “good” or “bad”) everything that happens to you?  Your experience of life would be very, very different indeed.

Labeling things as “good”, “bad” or something in-between is as natural as, well… survival.  That’s because when we label things we have this (false) sense of knowing how to handle it or how it will affect us.  The only problem here is that labels are not reality.  A crisis that at first appears to be devastatingly “bad” in reality could be the shift that was necessary to open up whole new possibilities.  There’s a neat expression for this, it’s called “Breakdown / Breakthrough”.

And likewise, something that at first blush is unquestionably positive (“good”) could in fact be a prison that holds you back from your true potential, or worse.  Just take a look at the broken lives experienced by many Lotto winners for proof of this.  The point is that labeling our circumstances or the people we meet is a form a judgment.  And the whole purpose of judgment is to help us feel secure in knowing what’s what of everything and everyone around us.  How ironic that judgment is the one thing that blinds us to what is real…

Judgments prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

Wayne Dyer

Life happens.  We can spend our time (and emotional energy) trying to identify what is “good” and “bad”, or avoid the trap of labeling and judging so real possibilities can reveal themselves.

Speaking of what’s real, don’t forget to register for a very special free LIVE video keynote by Dr. Terry Paulson who just wrote “The Optimism Advantage”.  He is a world-class speaker (and past President of the National Speakers Association). Just CLICK HERE to register for this extraordinary live session on April 7th from 3:00pm – 4:00pm EDT.  I guarantee your reality will grow exponentially by the time he finishes :0)