Ep 487: Throwback To Ep22: Q & A – Would You Say It’s Best To Look At Things As They Are Or How You Want Them To Be?

The Jim Fortin Podcast · Apr 16, 2026 · 23m

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I answer this question in two parts because it can be answered two ways.

First, one of the biggest causes of unhappiness is that people refuse to accept life as it is at the moment. Most people are living in the past or the future and complaining about where they are not.

The “space” between where you are and your story about where you think you should be is what I call the “unhappiness gap for many people.

We have to accept “what is” so that we can change and transform what is.

Secondly, about seeing things as we want them to be.

Einstein said, “Your imagination…