Feeling Better

Want to feel better about yourself? Find out how in this mini podcast.

Grasshopper Notes are the writings from America's Best Known Hypnotherapist John Morgan. His podcasts contain his most responded to essays and blog posts from the past two decades. 

Find the written versions of these podcasts on John's podcasting site: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1628038

"The Grasshopper" is the part of you that whispers pearls of wisdom that  seem to pop into your mind from out of the blue. John's essays and blog posts are his interpretations of these "Nips of Nectar." Others have labeled his writings as timeless wisdom. 

Most of the John's writings revolve around self improvement and self help. They address topics like:

• Mindfulness
• Peace of mind
• Creativity
• How to stay in the present moment
• Spirituality
• Behavior improvement

And stories that transform you to a wider sense of awareness that presents more options. And isn't that what we all want, more options? 

John uploads these podcasts on a regular basis. So check back often to hear these podcasts heard around the world. Who wants to be the next person to change? 

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Transcript

Feeling Better

Emphatic discussions with the words “Good, Better, and Best” are arguments without winners, because all those terms describe opinions.

But we DO deem some people as better than us in certain areas, and our opinion is backed up by lots of other opinions, to the point it seems like the truth.

So what makes someone better in our opinion? There's lots of answers to that question: education, skill, know-how, intelligence, practice, stick-to-itiveness, etc. We can go down a number of paths to pursue an answer.

The answer I usually come up with is passion. When I judge someone better than me at something we have relatively equal skills and knowledge about, I find passion at the core of their “betterness.” 

My hobby is photography. I’ll never be as good as some people I’ve encountered with more, equal, or less skills than me because I lack their passion. They eat, drink and sleep photography, but for me it’s just something I like.

Passion will make you better, at whatever.

So the objective is to find your passion and you’ll find that you get better.

As Robert Frost offered in his poem, “Two Tramps In Mud Time“:

My object in living is to unite

My avocation and vocation

As my two eyes make one in sight.

Passion is a uniting force and provides focus to your skill set.

If you’re the competitive type, passion, over time, will lead you to more wins than skill ever will. Skills will diminish but passion has staying power. Pursue your passion and watch yourself leave others with equal skills in the dust.

The great songwriter and singer Smokey Robinson once said, "there were guys in his neighborhood who could sing me under the table." But they never racked up the wins that Smokey achieved. My guess is they lacked his passion.

But in the end, it’s not about winning per se, it’s about feeling better about yourself at the end of the day. Passion is the elixir that makes that happen.

All the best,

John