How To Turn Lemons Into Lemonade…
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
…When Life Throws A Spanner In The Works!
Cristina Munoz back again with all about how to turn Lemons into Lemonade!
True story:-
One morning recently I had worked for two hours creating an absolutely jam packed, value based email to send to my list…
(If you are not on my list yet you can get onto it .)
…then just as I was about to save the email so I could send it out my computer decided to shut down and reboot!
Ha ha ha…very funny…laugh it up Universe.
Being the eternal optimist I got myself back online and logged into my Aweber and checked my Broadcasts to see if good old aweber had saved my email anyway…
…nope, it didn’t.
I remember staring at the screen as if I could will it back but alas not, so I said to myself, ‘Oh no“…
…and then the next moment ‘Oh well, I guess it’s time to turn Lemons into Lemonade!”
So to freshen myself up I went for my walk and then like water off a ducks back I went back to the drawing board and created new email to send out to my subscribers instead.
Yep it was just another day in the office my friends.
Well now…the OLD Cristina would not have handled that situation like that AT ALL!
Oh NO!
The OLD Cristina would have freaked out and had a right royal fit!
The OLD Cristina would have sworn like a sailor, and then been tempted to throw her laptop against the brick wall.
The OLD Cristina would NOT have picked herself up and dusted herself off and got right back to it…
...she would have allowed that little ‘lemon’ to more than likely knock her out of the water for the rest of the day…
…and would have whinged and whined about it to anyone that was silly enough to listen and probably written an angst ridden poem about it too!
Can you relate?..
..as let’s face it the Universe (or whatever you want to call it) can sometimes have quite a black sense of humor.
Whenever that kind of thing happens to me I can almost hear the Universe saying…
“Hmm…it’s time to throw a little spanner in the works for Cristina to test her mettle again today. Here you go Sweetie, you know I love you, so let’s see how quickly you bounce back from this one.”
I’m ONTO YOU UNIVERSE and the NEW Cristina gets it.
The NEW Cristina gets it because she understands how successful people think.
In fact I made a decision quite some time ago (actually back in my door to door days) to start thinking like successful people…
…because successful people turn their lemons into lemonade every single time!
Which it seems to me is exactly what the Universe (or whatever you want to call it) wants us to all do anyway…
….because overcoming adversity (big and/or small) is all part of what helps us build character, strength and our personal power.
So how do you start to learn how to think like successful people?
Simple start to seek out and surround yourself with positive, solution orientated people most of the time and understand that they are no better than you too.
In other words don’t spend most of your time with people who are always half glass empty types, and who seem to think you love hearing them constantly complaining to you about how horrible their lives are and who are not willing to do anything about it.
And especially NOT people who want to run you down, or stop you from achieving your dreams because you do want more out of your life and are willing to do something about it.
I don’t allow anyone to pollute me with anything negative at all.
I care too much about what I allow in my brain to allow anything negative to enter it if I can avoid it.
The OLD Cristina because she still wanted to please people would have allowed someone to chew off her ear about why they don’t want to do something that she wants to do…
…the NEW Cristina instead says, ‘Stop right now, I don’t want to hear all the reasons why you don’t want to do ‘said thing’ because I choose not to not allow any negativity into my brain at all.”
Talk about a conversation stopper however that’s what I do because understand…
…it’s ALL about MINDSET…
What you think and believe effects the action you take or don’t take which will either move you a little closer to where you want to be, or keep you stuck right where you are at, or worse send you backwards!
If ’we are the result of our best thinking’, doesn’t it make sense to do all you can if you want to live your life’s purpose, to think better than you do now, so you can develop the mindset of a winner and live the life of your dreams?
To help you our recent Women’s lounge hangout was ALL about how to elevate your mindset and the panel is filled with positive, success orientated women from our Prosperity Team who all know how to turn their Lemon’s into Lemonade as well.
We have our Women’s lounge by the way every week on Sunday’s at 8.00pm EST so to be notified of the next one just get onto my list .
I CANNOT begin to tell you how crucial being able to be around the women above and everyone else in Empower has helped keep me on track the past year or so as I continue to go through the process of transforming my life.
Along with being around like minded people and around people who stretch you start reading success orientated books for about 30 minutes a day.
Remember, “Readers are Leaders”
Start reading books about inspirational people who have overcome great adversity and achieved success in whatever field they are in.
Frankly books (and also music) are what helped me know that I could have a different life when I was growing up.
They gave me hope, they gave me strength, they fired up my imagination, they made me feel less alone and helped me understand I could one day be and do whatever I want and live a beautiful life.
Start listening to positive, success orientated audio every single day for at least 30 minutes.
Now by this I mean, if you love music as much as I do where it’s as essential as breathing, food and water that doesn’t mean you have to totally stop listening to music…
…I listen to music every single day as it lifts my energy, inspires me and makes me happy.
Obviously I’m attracted to music which isn’t negative, which has a positive message or is so damn brilliant it just makes me want to be better.
Simply ADD ON listening to success orientated audio each day as well.
I listen to success orientated audio in the mornings when I’m doing my marketing as it just sets me up mindset wise the way I want to be for the rest of the day.
You can for example listen to audio as you drive on your way to work and/or your way back from home, or while you exercise or do housework etc.
If you do slowly but surely how you think will start to change.
Your perspective will change.
You’ll find things that used to bother you or irritate you no end will no longer bother you.
When the Universe tests your mettle you’ll find your bounce back quicker too.
You’ll start to believe in yourself more because you would have heard or read about people who have endured far worse than you, who have not let what has happened to them beat them.
You’ll learn new skills and improve your current skill set which will help you get better at what you do every single day.
As a result you’ll tap into the courage that is within YOU and you’ll find that you can do things that once scared you or you didn’t believe you could do before.
You will start to feel happier, more driven and able to cope with the challenges of life in a healthier more positive way.
As you become more valuable, you will earn more too.
You will then find suddenly you are a NEW YOU…
..and the NEW YOU always, and I mean always turns Lemons into Lemonade every single time and get’s a kick out of helping others do the same too.
So if you haven’t started your journey to the new YOU yet make sure you plug in with our Prosperity Team here…
…and you can thank me later
If you enjoyed or found this article helpful please feel free to comment and like and share.
Warmly,
Cristina Munoz
“Helping People Turn Lemon’s Into Lemonade!”
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