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Have you ever thought about how amazing someone else is at a particular skill, or ability? What seems completely normal to them is amazing to us. Well same goes for you and I. There are aspects of us that are normal to us but amazing to someone else. For example, your fitness level, as good as it is, may be normal to you but amazing to someone else. Someone else’s capacity to make lots of money is their normal and amazing to someone else. You get the drift. Having an awareness of this, creates within us a reminder to be grateful for what we seem to be good at. Just the other day I was running with a friend of mine, what we would call a casual 10km run. We ran past another runner who seemed to be working really hard. I mean they were puffing pretty intensely. My running buddy commented saying, do you remember those days when that was us! Instantly I realised and remembered how far we had come in our everyday fitness. In our world to say that on Sunday you are running 20km is like saying ‘I’m popping to the shops to get some milk!’ So to us it is normal and to a non -runner that is incomprehensible let alone amazing. ‘That’s great Joe, good for you, buy I don’t relate! Everything normal in my life is somebody else’s normal too!’ Well…that is simply not true. There are a couple of things here: 1. There is something that you can do, that with application and commitment you can do better than 90% of the population. 2. How do I find this out? By exploring, being curious and trying different experiences. Open your mind to new found possibilities. It took me until my mid 30s for me to discover something, that with application and commitment I may become good at. Through my intense interest in personal and spiritual development, I found myself becoming increasingly passionate about sharing anything I learnt with others. My life transformed from getting a job and staying in a job to making a job and get damn good at it. If it’s true that your normal may be somebody else’s amazing, then the opposite is true as well. That is, what’s normal to you or me may be somebody else’s hell. This may sound real dark but not necessarily so. For example, I make my living by speaking to groups of people. This has become my normal, but to a couple of my friends that is hell!! I can understand that. As, a couple of my friends work 60 plus hour weeks, doing something they love, that is their normal but my hell. As much as I love what I do, I am not interested in doing it that intensely on a weekly basis. All the above can also be true if you or I have settled for that nagging pain in our back….and after a while we just put up with it, and it becomes a lower level of normal and somebody who has not experienced that pain, the thought of what is being put up with is hell. So what is the point to all this chatter about what is normal to you is somebody else’s amazing or hell ? ... more at www.joepane.com.au Trust this brings value to you or someone you know. Find more about Emotional Fitness on www.joepane.com.au Thank you so much for your 5-star ratings on Apple podcasts and for your amazing reviews. If you’re wondering how to leave a rating and a review, please checkout the step by step guide we’ve put together for you https://bit.ly/2VUNxko ------------------------------ Let's connect LinkedIn Facebook Instagram & Clubhouse @joepaneinsights