"Joe Vitale, Star of the Movie The Secret Answers The Question 'Do You Believe It Is Important To Take a Positive View Of Setbacks, Misfortunes and Mistakes'" by Ralph Zuranski
Ralph Zuranski: So you believe that it is important to take an immediate positive view of setbacks, misfortunes and mistakes that happen.
Joe Vitale: Absolutely, without any doubt, without any hesitation that is true. You know, you and I heard Ted Nicholas speak recently at the event, and he was talking about all the experiences, these failures or what people call failures. He looked at them and saw that they were the most educational experiences of his life.
It isn’t the successes for the most part that teach you things, it is the failures. If that is the case, then a failure really isn’t a failure. A failure is an educational success.
So it’s looking in each moment for the good, realizing it is always there. It is your eyesight that needs to be cleaned, your glasses that you’re looking through, your mental lens, your perception.
You see that there is positive in this moment. You may really resist looking for that because in the moment your ego is saying, “This isn’t going the way I want it to go; this isn’t what I had in mind; this isn’t the plan.”
But that’s your ego. Step aside from that and kind of look at it from a universal perspective and say, “Oh, maybe this is part of a puzzle and I don’t see the whole puzzle yet. But I’ve got to trust that it is a really good puzzle.”
Ralph Zuranski: Do you feel that it is good not to be judgmental about the things that are happening in your life, whether positive or negative? Just accept them for what they are and try to react to them?
Joe Vitale: Absolutely, and respond to them is more the word. We often react unconsciously to events that happen to us. If we respond to events that happen to us, we are much more aware of our choices.
I have a ring that I don’t wear all the time because it is priceless. It is a ring that is 2,000 years old. It’s from ancient Rome.
On the ring is inscribed the word “Fidem.” That word is Latin and it translates to faith. I wear it as a reminder to me that no matter what is going on, have faith or have trust that this is all happening for the good.
Again, if you had told me this when I was homeless in Dallas and I was in poverty in Houston, I would say, “Yeah, that sounds great, but where is the catch?”
Ralph Zuranski: How important is it to be an optimist?
Joe Vitale: It is incredibly important to be an optimist. And it is important for me to explain something about that because I am today an optimist.
I remember being in college in the early ‘70’s and a friend of mine at the time said I was a natural born pessimist. Today people look at my life, they look at my writings, they look at my web site and listen to my audio program and they say, “Wow, Joe’s a natural born optimist.”
Which is it? Was I naturally born a pessimist or was I naturally born an optimist?
The truth of the matter is you’re a choice. You choose which one you want to be. I have now chosen, because learning from experience that it is a wiser choice, to come from optimism. Look for the sunny side.
Who wants to go through life being depressed? You don’t see your opportunities; your energy is low; nobody wants to work with you; nobody wants to be around you; you drag.
But if you come from optimism, then you start going in the direction of fulfilling your dreams.
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