Florence Shovel Shin wrote a book The Game of Life and How to Play It. Neville Goddard in one of his lectures spoke of life being a romantic adventure. 

Both point to a different way to live our lives. Most people tend to get lost in the negative, the I can?t mindset. This arises from a belief that somehow we are not perfect, not OK. Somehow we are less than we really are. This belief has a powerful influence in our lives and can take a major change of attitude to open us to possibility of another way of living.

To paraphrase Neville Goddard, Life can be a romantic adventure when we make Love our priority. When we focus on the best aspects of ourselves and humanity life can change. Looking for the best in ourselves without ignoring the areas that need addressing or healing, problems will give way to a multitude of solutions. Moving to an attitude of looking at solutions and releasing the problems changes our lives. 

Kevin Trudeau in his audio series Your Wish is Your Command , tells a story of getting a flat tyre. Instead of dropping into Poor Me or Victimisation he used the opportunity to look for the positives that could occur. Maybe he would meet someone interesting. Having the flat may have stopped him being in a dangerous situation if he had continued. You get the idea. 

How often when something happens we automatically switch into what could go wrong, how it may not work out, etc. We seem to be geared to focus on the negative.

How much better would we feel is we started to take a more balanced view. Yes, something negative may occur. The trick is too also look at the positive, what solutions are being offered? How can we benefit from the situation? 

If we choose to see life as an adventure, an opportunity to explore Love to its deepest expression. Instead of focussing on the feelings and thoughts that lead to anxiety, depression and negativity we can approach life as a Romantic Adventure, the game of Love changes our outcomes. Life is what we make it, a hard concept to understand if we are addicted to our pain. 

Next time life throws a difficult or stressful situation our way let?s use it to our advantage. The negative will probably present its argument first. By all means listen but do not react immediately. Use the STOP, THINK, ACT approach before doing anything else. 

Stop overthinking or being over emotional.

Think. Take time to review the situation from multiple angles. Look at both he negative or positive aspects of the situation.

Act. Once all the options have been considered take action that will solve the situation in a beneficial way.

Life can be a nightmare or a Romantic Adventure. Which one is governed by the choice is ours.