Changing your perspective can transform your experience of life, as the above examples show. But they also expose a fundamental problem – they all occurred because something outside of you had changed: the sun came out, you went on holiday, time passed. And, the trouble is, if you rely solely on outside circumstances changing in order to feel happy and energised, you’ll have to wait a very long time. And while you wait, constantly hoping that the sun will come out or wishing that you could travel to the peace and tranquillity of an imagined future or an idealised past, your actual life will
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