This past week my wife and I were blessed to travel to Ireland. It was an all-expense paid trip through one of my wonderful life insurance carriers. We had such a great time. As I reflect on the past week’s activities, I always ask myself “what did I learn from this experience”? I am sure most people would be thinking of today’s news about the Brexit issue in the UK, but my thoughts were not political. I just observed and listened what the Irish talked about in Dublin and in Northern Ireland in Belfast which is a part of the UK. Interestingly enough, no one was discussing the vote. I learned from the Irish a lot about the thoughts and feelings of the people there.

The Irish do not see themselves as a threat to anyone but themselves. The turmoil in Ireland is not external but always internal. They don’t go to war with other countries but have had a couple of bad civil wars in the past 100 years. This very thought process really got me thinking about human nature. Isn’t true most of our own conflicts are internal? Maybe we express it externally by attacking others either verbally or physically, but aren’t we just acting out our own internal frustrations? Maybe it is just human nature from at least time to time, we have a tendency to “go to war” with our own thoughts?

I am a big believer in positive thinking, law of attraction and law of increasing returns. It is the hardest easy thing a human being can do is to control our own thoughts and feelings. “What we think about, we create. What we feel is what we attract and what we imagine, we become”-—The Secret

So if we understand in order to create something, we must simple think positively about it. To attract it into our lives, we must feel good about it. In order to become the person we wish to be, we must imagine ourselves as if it has already happened. Easy right? No, because we have that pesky internal war going on of doubt, disbelief, worry and lack of faith that what we truly want is unattainable. Therefore we are right and never become what we wish to become. This is an internal war we must win just like the Irish. We must win our own freedom from the tyranny of doubt, worry and disbelief. Fight the internal demons and live our dreams just as the Irish did. That’s what I learned from the Irish. May the luck of the Irish be with ya!

“Live your life as if everything is rigged in your favor”—Rumi

Image of St Patrick’s Cathedral Dublin, Ireland by Tim Wilhoit

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Tim Wilhoit is owner/principal of Your Friend 4 Life Insurance Agency in Nashville, TN. He is a family man, father of 3, grandfather of 1, entrepreneur, insurance agent, life insurance broker, employee benefit specialist, salesman, sales trainer, recruiter, public speaker, blogger, author and team leader with over 29 years of experience in sales and marketing in the insurance and beverage industries.