Emily McDonald

So

You know, that was a goal that I had.

So I started to kind of rewrite my beliefs around that.

I don't know if I could put a number on it, but they've actually shown in studies, I can't remember the exact number of seconds, but it's seconds that when we have an emotional response to something, whether positive or negative, that kind of chemical representation of that emotion only exists in our brain for seconds, like less than a minute, or maybe it's 90 seconds or something like that.

And anything after that is us reinforcing that feeling with our thoughts.

It's really quite interesting when you think about it that way.

And again, we all get caught up in the emotions for longer.

But I think, you know, I remember I heard the saying that life is 10% what happens to you, 90% what you do about it.

And after learning that, I was like, okay, yeah, like things are going to happen.

Things happen to everyone, everyone, even the super successful people that we see and like the people that we assumed, oh, they just had it easy.

Like life is hard for everyone.

Like life is not easy for anyone.

But I think what makes it

quote unquote, easier is having that mindset and that belief in yourself and also that faith in whatever you believe in, belief in yourself and belief in the divine, the creator.

Because when you have that belief, I mean, that lower stress and cortisol, right?

And you have that self-trust that, okay, like,

I can overcome this.

So even when things do suck and the things do happen, it's like it's OK.

And I remember when I was studying the difference between optimistic and pessimistic mindsets, it's like bad things, like, quote unquote, bad things happen to everyone.

But an optimist doesn't make that like doesn't take a bad situation and apply it to their whole life and mean apply it to their whole world.