Life is an experiment, filled with infinite experiences. How we experience our life is a direct reflection of our beliefs. Our experiences may be painful, pleasurable, neutral and or perhaps a combo of many things. However, regardless, it’s how we choose to believe, that influences how we experience, our experiences. It’s up to us to decide how we want to "experience" our life…how we want to show up, how what we want to think, believe and act.

So when life is giving us lemons and we really want lemonade, it’s time for some introspection.

1. What are we believing that is creating this experience and or our current reality? Our beliefs shape the way we experience life. They create a container and provide the boundaries. How and what we experience is filtered through our belief container, which in turn, creates what can be called a reality tunnel. We experience life through this reality tunnel.

For ex. If I believe that the World is beautiful, then everywhere I look, I will see and find beauty. However, if I believe that the World is ugly, then everywhere I look, I will see ugly, unless, I start to shift my thoughts, perceptions and allow myself to break out of that reality tunnel. Moving into neutral observation is usually the easiest way to do that.

2. What thoughts are we choosing? Everything in life is a choice and as an Adult, at no time do we every, NOT have a choice. It just may not appear that way, not be our favorite choice or be the one we want to make. When we say we have “no choice,” that is coming from a place of powerlessness. We always have a choice and it’s in our best interest to be conscious of making that choice, instead of running on autopilot or allowing a wounded aspect of ourselves my the choice for us.

3. Attitude check… Are we going south with the unhappy's or north with the joy, west with the boredoms or east with apathy? Our attitude helps fuel our thoughts, beliefs, desires and passions. We get to choose what direction we want to go, so when we wake up every morning, we can align with joy and happiness!

4. What are we allowing or limiting in our life? For example, if we want a new job, we will have to step out of our comfort zone and take some kind of action to find a new position. However, it may be that we just need a change of attitude, which will most certainly influence how we experience the current job. The choice is ours..take action for a new job or change of attitude?