Jay Shetty

Now ask, is this the only story the evidence supports?

Or is it one story, one edit, one emphasis of many that could be constructed from the same facts?

What would the story look like if you're telling it as evidence of your strength rather than your damage?

As evidence of your wisdom rather than your wounds?

As a chapter rather than a conclusion, you are the narrator.

The raw material is fixed.

The narration is yours.

This isn't toxic positivity.

Choose a story that is honest, that gives you somewhere to go.

Mindset seven, love is not a feeling.

It is a daily decision.

A student once asked a teacher, what's the difference between I like you and I love you?

The teacher replied, when you like a flower, you simply pluck it.

But when you love a flower, you water it every day.

Love is a daily act, a daily decision, not just a feeling.

I've saved this one for last deliberately because I think it is the most important and I think it is the most misunderstood and I think getting it wrong is responsible for more human suffering than almost anything else I could name.

Here's the story our culture tells us about love.

Love is a feeling that arrives, a lightning bolt, a chemistry, a sense of recognition.

There you are.

That happens to you rather than being made by you.