This book has endless examples of how we create the story in our head instead of loving what is. What is the story you are creating in your head? Are you allowing that story to affect your life? The world is whatever you believe it to be. Our mind is a powerful thing that will cling onto what we perceive to make it the truth. Walking every situation through The Work will help us get back to the actual truth not what we are creating. Filter through the emotions and focus on the truth.

The Work is meditation. If you are caught up in a thought Byron Katie challenges to put it out on paper. Question the situation then find the answers within the truth. This simple tool can turn everything around for you.

  1. Is it true? (Yes or no. If no, move to 3.)

  2. Can you absolutely know that it's true? (Yes or no.)

  3. How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought?

  4. Who would you be without the thought?

Turn it around: To the self. To the other. To the opposite.

This book may be repetitive of endless examples walking through how The Work changes situations. That is the exact point. No matter the situation, good or bad, we create our own story in our head. The majority of the time when we are sad or disappointed with something it is only because of the story that we have created. Take ownership in your thoughts and in the outcome. Turn the situation around.

Life has its ups and downs. Focus on only the things you can control and allow yourself freedom from what you can not. There are some situations that are not fair and will hurt, but Byron Katie points focus in on the response to those situations. Are you going to allow the story to spiral into negativity or do you take what you can control and run with it? Life will be much more enjoyable if you stay in your own business and control how you respond to the cards you have been dealt.

Choose to find joy in every day. Choose to love what is.