Life Happens For You, Not To You

On this week's mini episode, Evan covers the quote "Life happens for you, not to you". This quote is foundational in changing your mindset and moving from being a victim of life, to life conspiring in your favor to make you the best version of yourself possible. Mindset is foundational to mental health and becoming the best that you can be. Join me in this mini episode to receive your weekly motivation and set your mind on the right track!

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Hey, what's going on, everybody.

Welcome back to the elemental oven show.

Thank you all for tuning into this mini Monday episode.

So every Monday I do one of these mini episodes, which are more focused on

typically mindset, but they also dive into other types of health and wellness.

But mindset is so important because it really can help benefit our mental

health, which is definitely something that a lot of people need to improve.

Or are working on.

And so by being able to shift our mindset into a more positive One with a better

outlook, we can also help to shift our negative mindsets that can lead to these

detrimental forms of mental health.

So that's typically what these Monday episodes are about.

And that is what this one is going to be about.

Uh, today's episode is actually going to be on the quote of.

Life happens.

For you.

Not to you.

Now let's go ahead and start off with just dissecting this.

So when we say that life happens for you and not to you essentially.

It's looking, you know, think of the person who is like, Ah, you know, of

course this had to happen to me today.

Thanks God.

Thanks for giving me this, you know, or, or thanks to, you know,

whoever, you know, fill in the blank for giving me this hard life.

You know, I like.

Always happens to me.

Life is so tough, you know, and, and they always look like they're

just dealing with a result of life.

Like they are at the whim of whatever life throws at them, you

know, and they have zero control.

They're not able to.

You know, do anything and, and life is just always throwing something at them.

They're always victimizing themselves.

Right.

Well, this is a very detrimental mindset to have, because if you

believe life is happening to you and you just have no control and you're

just taking beatings left and right.

This is creating a narrative around your life into just, yeah.

Essentially being a victim and not having the capability to grow from

life's hardships and, you know, become better and do better, or, you know,

not make the same mistake twice.

You know, these are really important things.

And so.

For example, the person who states that, you know, life is happening for them,

as opposed to happening to them, they are growing from whatever hardships may

arise or setbacks, setbacks may occur.

You know, if, um, your tire pops on the road one day and, you know,

Of course you can be like, oh, why did it have to happen today?

Geez.

He's like, life is just out to get me yada, yada, yada, you know, and just

have a negative outlook on it and let it just ruin the rest of your day.

Or you can look at it as a positive and see it in a way of look, my tire

popped and maybe, you know, it's because, you know, I meant to learn

how to change out a tire today.

If you don't know how to change a tire or, um, get some patches in your trunk so

that if this does occur again, you can.

Pop one of those in and be ready to go, you know, it can look at it as a

learning experience or, um, maybe it was meant to happen at this time, you know?

And, and it's, uh, preventing you from.

Being in a car crash later down the road or whatever it may be, you know,

you can always change the narrative around it and realize that life.

Is happening for you.

And this is just a mindset shift.

I mean, you can choose to look at life in whichever way you want,

because realistically, if you believe you're, if you believe

it's one way, then you're right.

If you believe it's the other way, then you're also right.

You know, uh, whatever your belief is is, is technically going to

be your reality and your truth.

So why not make your reality and truth one that is beneficial and

going to better you in the long run?

Right?

Allowing life to happen for you?

Like everything Conspiring for you to be the best version of yourself.

Every hardship that you're facing is just toughening your skin,

toughening your brain, your mentality,

Um, your work ethic to just be better and always constantly improve and grow.

Right?

Cause you can always look at hardships is, you know, life being out to get

you, or you can look At it as an opportunity to grow, you can look

at your problems as puzzles, right?

Puzzles that just need to be solved, not a problem, but a puzzle,

something that is going to be solved and make you better because the

next time you face that problem.

You'll now have the tools, the mentality, the mindset to go ahead and take on that.

And do a much better job at it, right?

You're going to be better equipped to handle whatever that may be.

So, this is really one of my favorite quotes actually.

I heard my fiance make this statement not too long ago.

Uh, she said that quote in.

And honestly just sparked a whole episode for me.

So, uh, that's why I'm here talking about it.

And I think it's so true and really important to have this type of mentality.

If we start to look at life as being in our favor, Then that means that

everything life is throwing our way, whether it's good, whether it's

bad or, you know, in the middle.

Then it was meant for us.

It was meant for us to go through that, experience it and learn from it.

Right.

Because they say, um, you know, a mistake or a, yeah, like a mistake is not really

a mistake if you learn from it, right.

If you learn from it and don't make the same mistake again.

A second time.

Then it was never really a mistake.

It was just a learning experience.

And we can look at life as that as simply that, you know, um, if you're at

work and all of a sudden someone has to call off sick or they quit or whatever,

and then you have to take on their work and you have to, you know, now double

down on all this work and it's stuff that you aren't normally used to doing

well, you can look at it as a moment to.

Basically learn from, from this hardship, you know, maybe they

were in charge of doing, you know, different tasks that you aren't.

Uh, customer doing, but then after, you know, having to do their work

and pick up their slack, now you're so much more capable at your job.

You're now a much, much more valuable asset to the company because you know,

way more information than you did, if you were just stuck and stable in your, you

know, in your, your common job in which you are technically not really growing

once you already have it down to a science and can do it without thinking, right.

But if you learn something else now you're so much more valuable to the company.

Maybe.

You get a pay raise, maybe, you know, now you're more qualified

to step up to a new position.

Uh, you know, you can always look at life as being in your favor.

Even these hardships, These setbacks, they can just be moments of learning.

And I think this is really valuable.

I think this can really help shift a lot of people's mindsets and even to a degree.

Uh, some mental health as well, because I think when people feel like

such a victim, You know, it's easy to get kind of depressed and down.

Like, man, I just can't catch a break.

But maybe you're not meant to catch a break right now.

Maybe you're meant to grow.

Maybe these next three months are going to be a hardship, but you're going

to come out of those three months.

Way ahead of the game, better than you were, you know, in the last five

years, you know, learning so much.

And, and I think that's so important to have, if we can just look at life

Really helping us to grow and not, you know, just a setback that's, you

know, a hardship and we have to deal with it and deal with the stress of

it, but rather just learn and grow in that moment and understand that.

Every hardship is an opportunity to learn, to grow and to be so

much better than you are now.

That is the only way you grow is when you get uncomfortable.

And when you go through something difficult.

You're going to come out on the other side.

Better equipped to handle whatever it is.

So anyways, that is today's topic.

It is.

Make the change in your mindset to life happens for you.

It doesn't happen to you.

And I think if you can make this mindset change, Is going to be so beneficial for

not only just you, but even the people around you, because they're going to

see how you handle stressful and hard.

Uh, hard situations.

And they're going to ask you, Hey.

How the heck did you keep such a good, you know, calm and, and, um,

good mindset about, you know, the situation that you were going through.

And you're going to be able to share this with them.

And I think that's very, very beneficial, uh, to grow us as a whole, you know, as

a whole society and, uh, make us better.

So anyways, I hope you really enjoy this quote as much as I did, it sparked such a

flame under me when my fiance stated it.

And I hope it does the same for you.

I hope it has got you.

Going, got you some Monday.

Motivation.

Got you ready to go tackle the day?

And if you're going through something very difficult and hard right now, then

just understand that it is temporary.

It will come to an end eventually, and it can be a learning opportunity for you.

Everything you go through has a message has a lesson in it.

You can always find some value in everything you go through.

So.

Look for it.

There's always, you know, it can always be worse and, uh, you know,

create that mental strength that we all have and are capable of.

So, anyways, I hope this all helped you out very That's going to be today's uh,

sorry, this week's, uh, exercise because I try to give you guys an exercise once

a week, and I usually do it in these episodes, and that is going to be simply

to look at your problems as puzzles.

Right?

Go ahead and see how you can grow from each thing.

I understand that you can look at life as working in your favor,

conspiring to make you the best strongest version of yourself possible.

Through all these hardships.

Okay.

Try to have that mindset shift.

So, you know, become aware of the problems you're going through right now with

the hardships you're facing right now.

And try to find what is it that you're meant to learn through these hardships.

All right.

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Look at your problems as puzzles and connect to your elements.

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