Choose Your Challenges (Arenal Volcano, Costa Rica)

Engineering Emotions and Energy with Justin Wenck, Ph.D.

What if you could Choose Your Challenges? Would you choose the ones you currently have, or would you make a different choice?
I'll show you how it's worked for my travels, but this also works for all aspects of life and I'll explain it more in-depth in the podcast which is recorded right next to the Arenal Volcano in Costa Rica. 48 Hours before I was in Northern California, and getting to Costa Rica always from there always requires a lengthy layover and at least one very long leg.
Usually, that's always meant a 4.5 hour red eye flight to Houston followed by a 5 hour layover before getting to land in Costa Rica late afternoon. I'm not saying it's the worst thing in the world (that's probably Indian Jones and the Crystal Skull), but the lack of any sleep for over 24 hours can be rough.

On this trip, I made a different choice. I chose to take a 1 hour flight down to LA, where I then had a 7 hour layover before the 5-hour flight to Costa Rica getting in at 11 PM. To make it even more enjoyable, I got a hotel for the day (yes, that's a thing) so I could take a 2 hour nap and go for a sun and swim before the flight to Costa Rica. All this wasn't even that much more than what I would have ended up spending on airport food if I hadn't gotten the room.

On the drive from the airport to Arenal I got stuck behind a crazy slow driver on the twisty 2 lane road. I felt myself getting frustrated. I could have kept being frustrated for kilometers on end (cause not in America), but I decided to pull over, get some coffee, and enjoy the view for a bit. So I swapped frustration for arriving a little later, but much much happier.

This type of choice is ALWAYS available in life because LIFE IS CHOICE. The only question is…

Are you aware of the choices you're making? If you're miserable with your challenges it's because you're not consciously choosing them. You've accepted the ones you were born with and you haven't upgraded them yet. There's even a viewpoint that you chose the challenges you were born into. Whether or not you agree with that or not, any time you become conscious of your challenges, you can choose new challenges.

How do you choose new challenges? That's a major theme of my book where I teach you to see how you're stuck in Fear Obligation and Guilt (FOG) and swap it for Joy Ease and Love. If there were no challenges then there would be no opportunity for growth, but growth doesn't have to come from suffering.

You go choose your challenge and enjoy the amazing shifts that come with it like getting near an amazing Volca

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