How Jennifer Aniston Helps Me Change the World

Wow this year is certainly flying through quickly! We had an all time record number of visitors during February - 3,338 visitors. Thank you all for continuing to come back every week to be inspired by my philosophies on life and turning your dreams into reality. Words cannot begin to describe how much I appreciate it. Thank you so much!

This week’s post is about how Hollywood actress Jennifer Aniston helps me to change the world. I know it’s a bit of a weird title but bear with me here while I explain.

So once upon a time, I’m not sure from whom or where I got this, but I heard a story about Jennifer Aniston and something that she does that is very Dream, Build, Inspire, Lead!’esque.

You know those challenges that life sometimes throws up at you and it just hits you so hard it’s like someone as just whacked the side of your face with a cricket bat with an all mighty CRACK!And then you can’t focus on anything because this problem has just blown your whole world apart. You know the problems I’m talking about right?

Well Jennifer has a very interesting way of dealing with them. Whenever a problem like that comes along, no matter what time of the day it comes through, she’ll take the rest of the day off and not do anything. Just completely shut down and try to relax for the entire day until she goes to sleep that night. Then when she wakes up in the morning the next day, she’ll take complete responsibility for whatever was her part of that problem, no matter how little it is, and try everything within her power to fix it. And considering she’s doing great in Hollywood I’d say it’s working for her.

Sometimes when a problem hits you in the face like that you feel as though you’ve been wiped out and there’s often very little you can do to get control of the situation. Plus in that moment even if you did try to get control of the situation you’re fully charged with a million different emotions and you run the risk of making a bad decision in the heat of the moment. What Jen’s technique does is to allow you to relax and let your ego come into play to build up your self esteem and confidence over a period of a few hours and also while you sleep at night. Then when you wake up in the morning is up to you to regain control over your part of the problem and really make things happen for you. This is how you turn your problems into challenges and overcome them.

Now there’s a good chance that you are not the sole cause of your problem and there might have been others involved too. Unfortunately you cannot control those other people. It’s a fact of life. Get used to it. But you have complete control over your own actions and emotions towards the situation and that’s what helps you continue to Dream, Build, Inspire, Lead!

So onto this week’s challenge. I challenge you to use the Jennifer Aniston method in dealing with your next big problem that comes your way. Take the rest of the day off - if you can’t get out of work or school, just take it off mentally and start having positive, empowering Internal Conversations that help your ego to do it’s job. Then when you wake up the next day its time to start changing these problems into challenges and take responsibility for the items within your control. It’s not an easy task, but it’s something I do quite often that has helped me out. I hope it helps you too.

Dream, Build, Inspire, Lead!

AJ~

Author: AJ Kulatunga

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