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Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 8:30 pm by Guest Contributor

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Do you make judgments about the electricity coming into your house? After all, it can be pretty dangerous stuff. It could kill someone. It could start a fire. But it can also do a whole lot of very useful things, like cook your food, keep you cool on a hot afternoon, and light the darkest night.

So, which is it — that electricity that arrives through the big, thick wires that feed into your home? Is it good electricity or is it bad electricity?

Well, that sounds like a pretty silly question, doesn’t it? Because the electricity itself is neither good nor bad, neither useful nor destructive. Instead, it is precisely what you make of it. You accept the electricity that’s available to you, and you make effective, valuable use of it.

Just imagine how much electricity (and time) you would waste if you set out to make a judgment about each kilowatt hour of electrical energy that came to you, as to whether that particular packet of energy would be a good thing or a bad thing. What an exercise in futility that would be!

It’s just as senseless to spend time and energy fretting about the events and circumstances that life brings. Instead of judging or fighting what has already happened, a much more effective strategy is to accept what already is and to find something truly beneficial and meaningful to do with it. Life’s energy comes streaming in, moment by moment. Once it arrives, it doesn’t really matter how it got there. What really matters is, going forward, making the very most of it.

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