Life is only hard on people who make it hard. While we all have to deal with set backs and bad luck sometimes, some people are better at overcoming it all than others. Some people can be pushed and shoved as hard as possible, yet they always manage to come back up smelling like roses. Why? Why do people have it easy and others don't? Why does it seem like the "bad guys" always win and the "good guys" never do? Could it all be just a matter of perception? A misunderstanding?



Perhaps the "bad guy" IS suffering from some unknown ailment and is just better at hiding it than the "good guy". Perhaps the "good guy" could be afraid to take the same risks that the "bad guy" took. Perhaps the "good guy" is allowing his or her morals to stop him from being as ruthless as the bad guy. There is nothing wrong with that. That means that the "good guy" should feel happy that he has his or her "morals', right? Then why aren't all the "good guys' happy? Now we're back to square one all over again. If the "good guys" have morals and bad luck both, then what else is there for him or her? And at the same time, if a "bad guy" is both immoral and lucky, that doesn't always mean he or she is anymore happy than the "good guys".



What is happiness?

How can we define it?

What is "good luck"?

How can we define it?

What is success?

How can we define it?



If you define happiness, good luck, and success by how much money you have in the bank, and yet you have no money, then it would make sense (by your logic) that you wouldn't be happy. Have you ever thought that maybe it could be the other way around? Maybe you should try being happy first, and then have faith that money will come flowing in someday. If you're constantly fussing and worrying over money, you're never going to have enough. If you're constantly being jealous of the "bad guy" for having money, you're never going to be as rich as him or her.



We all aspire to become like someone we admire.



Bear with me here. That is true for all of us whether we realize it consciously or not. The child that inside all of us still wishes to "grow up" to be like someone we look up to. I don't care if it's a real life person, Superman, Batman, Wolverine, etc.. The fact is that if you looked up to someone as a child, then there's a good chance you share some similar attributes to that person now. If the person you consider to be a 'bad guy" and don't like is wealthy and ruthless because they looked up to someone else who is "wealthy" and "successful" growing up, then how does that make them "bad"? How does that make them "lucky"? If you admired Superman for example, are you honoroable and "moral" like him? If you're not rich, then don't forget that Bruce Wayne was the billionaire and not Clark Kent. Who we look up to as children plays a significant part of who we become as adults. The child that is still within us all realizes this, but why can't the adult that we've become?

I truly recommend meditating on these questions and ideas for a little while each day. Try to think about the past. Who all did you admire and look up to the most as a child? Take out a sheet of people and compare yourself now to your "heroes" as a child. Why do you feel you may be like them now? Why do you feel that you aren't?

How can you still retain that part of yourself when trying to manifest somethings that neither your "heroes" nor you have? If you hero and you both are humble yet poor, how can you keep the humble part of yourself while manifesting money? If you don't like the ruthlessness that the "bad guy" has, then how can you obtain some of the same things he or she has without losing your modesty?

Perhaps you'll have to find yourself a "hero" in your adult life that contains both the wealth you desire and the modesty you wish to hold on to. Who could it be though? What could it be? Start thinking long and hard about it. Make a list and meditate often. Once you figure out who it is, you'll have to combine your new "adult" hero with the "hero" of your childself. It's up to you to learn how to combine all of their attributes into your true, oneself. Try to get those attributes of your new "hero" to go inside your subconscious mind. The subconscious mind is where the "magick" happens so to speak. Listen to them while sleeping. Read their words and stories before you fall asleep. Visualize yourself becoming like them while meditating.

You must remember that it may take time. Just as it took time for you to "grow up" following in your childhoold hero's footsteps, it may take some times for you to become more lucky, ambitious, or whatever; like your new hero. Try not to be angry or jealous of any of the "bad guys", no matter how ruthless or wealthy they are. They who are they are because of their past, just the same as you. Eventually, if you trully believe in yourself (and your heroes), you can have the best of all worlds.