Life Is Happening for You

Hi, guys. My name is Donny Rouse, and you are listening to the podcast One Life. Life is happening for you. What if life was happening for you and not to you? It's kind of. It sounds kind of weird, at least when I first heard, I thought it was kind of like a bunch of fluff. But when you think of the word, it's really a mindset. Because if you adopt the belief that life is happening for you, what it does is it causes you to look for the best in every situation, in every experience, and you start to say, okay, well, if life is happening for me, what about this is. Can I use. What about this is helping me grow? You start to look and create different meanings for whatever it is around you. There was a point in time. The first time I was ever exposed to this was probably around 2006, and it wasn't even like, life is happening for you. It was like lemons into lemonade. That was like my thing, Lemons into lemonade. I remember going to Italy in 2006. I was living in Rome, and certain things would kind of like, would go wrong. Like I'd miss the bus to school, or maybe I would lose something. And I just kept repeating over and over my hind, well, life gives you lemons. Make lemonade. Life gives you lemons. Make lemonade. As a result of adopting that mindset, I remember things just being easy and always flowing. I would come away with new distinction, and I would look for ways. So maybe something would happen. I'd be like, oh, well, you know what? I was meant to find this new cafe, whatever it may be. This last year has been a difficult one for everybody. It's caused people to reevaluate. Maybe, maybe some people lost their homes, they had to change jobs, or just being home alone and trying to do all this stuff with your kids. But what if it was happening for you? When Covid hit, I was actually supposed to fly out of the country. I was supposed to go to Portugal, and I was going to do this loop around Europe to a bunch of countries that I hadn't yet visited. When they closed the borders, I was forced to change. Well, not forced. I guess I don't like that strong. The strong word. But I ended up changing my plans. I ended up canceling that flight, but I had that mindset. I was like, you know what? Life is happening for me. And as a result of that, I saw that. I now had the time to put into building my podcast. If you've been following me at all, you'll notice that it was at that exact moment where I actually started to become visible on social media, I started actually doing Facebook and Instagram lives, putting out this message that I want people to hear about living life, about living presently, creating awareness around your thoughts, your beliefs, but also to go after the life that you desire. That all stemmed from this and getting even more finely like attuned to what it is that I the impact that I want to have. Fast forward again. So it's the winter and now I'm ready. I'm supposed to travel again. This time I'm supposed to go to Turkey. But Covid cases were picking up again. And as a result of that there was also some. Some security issues with the. That the Turkish government put out against American tourists. So I canceled that. Looking for the positive. What opportunities does this open up to me? And the opportunity was starting like upgrading my one doing a workshop. The workshop that I have planned now for January 9, the Live Your One Life workshop. It also like as a result of that, I updated my website now to sell espresso equipment. And I now am using my knowledge as an espresso sommelier to train people in what I do. Because I realized that I have so much knowledge, there's so much to give that I could offer that as a value added service. That wouldn't have come had I gone on the trip. I would have been in a completely different mindset. But as a result of looking for that diamond in the rough, saying, okay, well I was supposed to do this. That didn't happen. What opportunities are available to me now? What does that open up? And that was the answer. One last example, and this is a smaller example. I was recently helping my father out in a job. He does H Vac. And I was a little bit disgruntled because I had other things that I wanted to do. But whenever my father asked, I like to oblige and help him out. While I was there, I was kind of. I was kind of. I was pissing him on. I really was. I probably had. If I could look at my face in mirror, I probably had this like big puss on my face. But then I thought about it. I was like, you know what? This is happening for me. And as a result of that, I created new worksheets for my one Live your one life program in the course that would not have come about had I not been in that situation. Because that situation triggered a response. I was really pissy. And then I was like, wait a minute, what's going on here? And then I started to become aware of the surroundings, of glory. This is presenting me with an opportunity. What is that opportunity? One of it, actually, I did a post was the Writing on the Wall. It was one of my more recent podcast posts, but I ended up creating a worksheet around that as well. There's always an opportunity. There's always a dime in the rough. You just kind of have to break it apart and dust off that, you know, the coal or, you know, break off all the stuff that's around it until you get to that polished gem. I highly, highly doubt that this will be the last episode that I ever do on Life Is Happening for you. Because it's something you always have to come back to over and over again and remind yourself, because doing it will literally transform your life. At the very least, it'll transform how you feel in that moment, and that is life transformative. So maybe you're going through something now. Maybe you are stuck overseas. Maybe you were supposed to travel, but you didn't end up going in. Maybe you're forced to work from home now because the office is closed, but you have 10 kids. Well, that's a lot of kids. But whatever it is, what is the opportunity in it? Ask yourself this question, whatever your situation is. How is life happening for me? What opportunity does this give me? How is this benefiting my life? See, as people, we really have a hard time changing until we're forced to change. And that forced change will often put us on a new trajectory. And it doesn't feel comfortable in the beginning. But then looking back in hindsight, when we look at it like, oh, my, yeah, that situation really sucked. But hey, look it, here I am now. And it changes our life. So again, in closing, think of a situation, maybe a situation that you're currently going through that doesn't feel. Doesn't really feel good. And just repeat to yourself, life is happening for me. Not to me. Life is happening for me. Life is happening for me. What are the opportunities in this experience? Maybe it's an unpleasant situation where the opportunity is to use your voice and to stand up for yourself. Maybe the opportunity is to finally start following your heart and doing what you're being called to do. What is it for you? That is all I have for you today. But if you enjoy this, please give it a thumbs up a like. Subscribe to the podcast. Download them. I'm going to be doing a podcast November 9th. I'm sorry, November 9th. January 9th, called Live youe One Life. And it's about creating the next year of magic for your life. And creating po, passion, joy, excitement and a year like you've never had before. And that sounds very vague, but I like to a lot of people focus on the money and all this. I like to focus on the things that are going to make you happy, the things that are going to break you, bring you joy, and give you the experiences you want to experience. When I think of all my travels around the world in my happiest moments, very few of them had to do with money. I'm not downplaying the importance of money. I'm just saying that there's more to life than that and that if you're constantly looking at that in order to have an experience, in order to enjoy life, then you're losing. So you can join. If you want to join the workshop, you can do so by visiting www.donnyrous-o n n y r a u s.com and if you have any questions, any feedback, feel free to send me a message via instagram @donnyrous. Onnyrous. There's no.com on Instagram @ donnyrous D O N N Y R A U s that is all I got for you guys. God bless and I will see you next week.