What Do You Want?

Do you want other people to be different than who they are? That's a lifelong desire that will never catch fire. Find out more about them and you 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. 

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"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? 

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Transcript

What Do You Want?

The Grasshopper offered this up years ago when I was shoveling snow: “It may never be the way you want, but it will always be the way it is.”

It’s feels good to get what you want. The trap is believing having what you want is a permanent situation. What we want will eventually dissolve or evolve because permanence is not a reality of human existence, except for, maybe, death, taxes, and Andy Of Mayberry reruns.

The message is to enjoy what you want or have while it’s here instead of attempting to capture and preserve it in a jar. 

This isn’t fatalism; it’s realism. 

In case you haven’t noticed, things will not always go your way. This is especially true when what you want is for other people to be the way you want rather than the way they are.

Reminds me of a story from my radio broadcasting days. I had a great teacher. His name was Paul Hennings. He operated a school for budding broadcasters in Norfolk, Virginia. Paul was a successful radio personality in the area and had quite an impressive background. He was the guy who, way back in the day, replaced Arthur Godfrey (the father of the modern day disk-jockey) when Godfrey went from radio to TV.

Hennings told the story of his first couple of shaky shows after replacing Godfrey. His program director noticed that he wasn’t quite at ease and sounded stiff. After a bit of conversation, his boss said, “I hired you to be who you are, not who you think you have to be.”

People are going to be who they are regardless of us wanting them to be different. The amount of fretting you do because others are not like you or the way you want them to be only causes mental and physical distress and keeps you living in the land of illusion. 

Here’s a reality based formula that will let the air out of an illusion balloon:

If you can’t change what is, here are two options:

1. Accept it.

2. Walk away from it.

Here's my hope for you and me: That we get more of what we want without being in a constant state of wanting it to be the way it isn't.

All the best,

John