I vividly remember walking down this street in London.
I was at one of the lowest points of my life. Everything seemed to be crumbling around me. And I was alone. Not just alone in the solo-travel sense—existentially and literally alone.
As I walked through the rain I could feel the vibration of the droplets hitting my umbrella. For a moment something shifted.
I considered the circumstances that led to me being there, walking down that street.
A last minute trip to Portugal booked with less than two weeks of planning.
A last minute decision to join a pub crawl on one of my last nights in Lisbon.
A last minute decision to stay out with new friends from London I’d met at that event.
A last minute decision to fly to London just three weeks later to celebrate NYE with these people I’d just met.
It was exciting. Adventurous.
For three blocks, I walked down that street bobbing my head to the music in my earbuds like one of those movie montages. My life was a movie. For three blocks, I forgot about my problems.
For three blocks, I felt joy again.
I talk often about mindset functioning like a pair of glasses. Positive or negative, whichever pair you’re wearing alters how you see the world.
Real life circumstances caused me to put on a negative pair. I felt that.
But this story was a moment when I took that pair off and swapped them for a different one. And the result?
Even at one of my lowest moments, I found a reason to celebrate—a reason to feel joy and gratitude.
Life is hard. That’s real. But if we forget to take off that pair of glasses every now and then we start to mistake the world for all doom and gloom. We start to feel trapped. Small. Worthless.
That moment on that street is exactly why I do what I do. It’s why I coach the psychology side of change.
Swapping your mindset lenses is a skill you can learn. And I’ll be teaching you how during my presentation for the Breaking The Mold virtual wellness summit this weekend.
I hope you’ll join us March 7-8. It’s free, and you’ll have 48 hours to watch my presentation as well as those of seven other experts who are done with the same tired approach to health.
Come learn how to change the lens.
~ Coach Alex