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Why Your Life Sucks

Why Your Life Sucks

by Alan Cohen

One afternoon an official-looking fellow showed up at my door and

flashed an

I.D. from the water department. " I just read your water meter, " he

told me, " and

I have to inform you that you have an unusually high usage this

month. "

" High usage? "

" Yes, sir -- about four times the usual amount. "

" Four times? "

" That's right. Here are the numbers. "

I looked at the numbers. He wasn't kidding.

" It's our policy to let you know about this in case you have any

leaks in your

water system. "

Hmmm. No leaks I knew of. Maybe my tenant has been taking a lot of

showers, I

wondered. But 80,000 gallons of showers? Nope, he doesn't even wash

his dishes.

I thanked the waterman and told him I'd try to conserve this month

and hope the

bill would come down next month.

A few days later I was sitting on my back porch when I noticed a

puddle in the

corner of the yard. That puddle had been there for a while, but I

figured it was

due to some heavy rain we'd had. But the rest of the lawn had dried

up. The

puddle was still there.

I poked my hand into the puddle. There was a pipe beneath it, and it

was

leaking. I can tell you exactly how much it was leaking: 80,000

gallons a month.

Energy Leaks

If you are losing energy in the form of joy, health, money, or love,

you have a

leak in your system. There is no malevolent parasite that has invaded

your world

and is undermining you. Your leak is on your property, and as such

you have

access to repair it.

The entire game of life is about making the best use of your energy.

The

question is not, " Is there life after death? " The question is, " Is

there life

before death? " To answer this for yourself -- and live it -- you must

quit doing

things that deplete your energy and start doing things that expand

it. Moses

delivered Ten Commandments that point to how to accomplish this, but

(a) Nobody

wants to be commanded; ( Charlton Heston's bad makeup job

undermined Moses'

credibility; and © Nobody has enough patience on the Internet to

wait for ten

commandments to download. So here is everything you need to know to

relocate

from Suckville:

Do what brings you life.

Do not do what deadens you.

The reason you are not where you want to be is that you are doing

things you do

not want to do. If that sounds simple, it is. (One of the most

popular tricks of

power and control freaks is to hide in complexity. But the best

answer to a

problem is usually the simplest.) Sure, there are some things you

have to do

that you don't want to do, but not as many as you are doing. Give

yourself a

break.

If you took the energy you are wasting on things that suck

and used it for things you love, what would you be doing differently?

When you invest your time and energy in stuff that drags you down,

you die a

little bit every day. Then your life force reduces to a dribble and

you croak.

Yet the Bible documents people who lived for hundreds of years, and

there are

people in remote regions today who live far past 100. Their lives are

simpler

and they do not fritter away their life force watching people hit

each other

over the head with chairs on Jerry Springer. They just live close to

nature, eat

yogurt, and develop meaningful relationships with llamas. So open

your heart to

a critter who won't dump you on national television and you will live

long

enough to get a birthday card from the President.

While you may be very careful about what you pay for with your money,

you are

probably less careful about what you pay for with your attention. In

the long

run, how you spend your attention affects your life far more

profoundly than how

you spend your money. Your attention is the strongest currency at

your disposal.

If you squander it, your life will result in one big overdraft. If

you invest it

in things you value, you will collect interest big time -- and be

interested

along the way.

Everything you do is an investment in more of the same. The illusion

is that if

you do something you don't like long enough, it will go away. But the

truth is

that the more you get involved in something, the more involvement it

leads to.

(Ever own a boat?) If you truly enjoy something, dive in. If not,

have the guts

to walk away from what doesn't serve you. There is no redeeming value

in misery

(unless you do timeshare presentations). The hell you worry about

going to is

not nearly as bad as the fear of it that drives you to do things

alien to your

spirit. If you live from fear, you already are in hell. If you live

from love,

you create the meeting point of heaven and earth.

This article is excerpted from:

Why Your Life Sucks and What You Can Do About It by Alan Cohen.

Published by Jodere Group, Inc.

Info./Order this book now Alan CohenAbout The Author

Alan Cohen is the author of numerous popular inspirational books,

including the

award-winning A Deep Breath of Life. To request a free catalog of

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