KeithI’m currently looking for a new house.
For the last six weeks, I’ve been living in hotels here in my home country. It’s been interesting. Educational. Occasionally surreal.
Breakfast time has become my daily sociology experiment. Sit quietly with a coffee and listen. Life is colourful when you pay attention. Some conversations are thoughtful. Some are hopeful. Some are fully-blown political manifestos delivered over scrambled eggs.
And some… well, let’s just say, everyone is entitled to their opinion.
But what really strikes me is this.
The hopelessness.
Yes, times are tough. Yes, everything costs more. Yes, money feels tighter than ever. I’m not denying reality. But we are all a long time dead. Surely there must be something more productive to do with our limited days than rehearsing our problems to anyone within earshot of the toaster.
Complaining can feel therapeutic. It’s like an emotional release of steam. But here’s the problem. If you keep repeating the same old story long enough, it stops being therapy and starts being identity.
You don’t just have problems.
You become the person who always has problems.
Changing Your Luck Forever
Here’s the uncomfortable bit.
You got yourself to where you are today.
Your thoughts. Your habits. Your decisions. Repeated daily. That doesn’t mean life has been fair. It doesn’t mean you haven’t faced challenges. It simply means that if you want a different outcome, you’ll need different inputs.
Waiting for politicians to rescue you is like waiting for your chips to magically turn into salad. It’s not happening.
Politics, historically speaking, has divided more people than it has united. Promises are made. Promises are reinterpreted. And somehow, you’re still standing at the breakfast buffet talking about how everything is someone else’s fault.
Anyway, I digress.
The title of this post says it all.
If you eat chips every single day, at some point you’ll probably gain weight. Not because the universe hates you. Not because your neighbour voted differently. Not because society is against you.
But because chips, however delicious, have consequences.
Yet people will happily say, “I wish I were slimmer,” while reaching for another portion.
It would be funny if it weren’t such a perfect metaphor for life.
People say they want more money. More freedom. A better future. But many are not looking for new skills, new ideas, or new opportunities. They are looking for new reasons to explain why it can’t happen.
Complaining about a lack of money is not a financial strategy.
It is a poverty maintenance plan.
Breaking the mould isn’t easy. If your parents struggled financially, it can feel almost disloyal to rise above it. If all your friends think a certain way, it’s comfortable to agree. Comfort is powerful.
But growth is uncomfortable.
Life should be about improvement. Improving your thinking. Improving your habits. Improving your earning power. Improving your family’s circumstances. Expanding your freedom.
Not perfecting your complaint routine.
People talk about escaping the matrix. I’ve talked about it too. But before you escape the system, you have to escape your own conditioning.
Don’t believe everything you think.
Some of your thoughts were installed years ago by people who were just as confused as you. If you’ve been telling yourself the same limiting story for decades, maybe it’s time for a rewrite.
Maybe it starts with something simple.
A day without chips.
Have a great day.
Keith
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