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# A fact of life that will immediately improve yours
- URL: https://www.gilespcroft.com/a-fact-of-life-that-will-immediately-improve-yours/
- Published: 2026-07-31T06:00:49.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-04T09:56:51.000Z
- Description: Didn't I say something at some point about awareness being key?? 😉
- Author: Giles P Croft
- Tags: Moods, #re-use, Richard Carlson, Acceptance, Anger, Attention, Identity, IMPLICATIONS, Psychology, Relationships, Stress

Do you know the single biggest *practical* difference the Innate Health understanding has made to my life?

It's moods. Knowing how they work.

It's seeing this:

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/f3/9bf3d316-7d32-494b-814f-a7d94d6358c3/content/images/2026/07/2026-07-31-Moods-create-reality.jpg)

It's from [Richard Carlson](https://www.gilespcroft.com/tag/richard-carlson/)'s timeless classic [Don't Sweat the Small Stuff](https://gilespcroft.link/dont-sweat-book/?ref=gilespcroft.com)

That last sentence is the show-stopper:

> *“Remember, it’s not your life that has suddenly changed for the worse in the past hour; it’s your mood.”* \~ Richard Carlson

🤯

Oh my *word*, is that important to see?!!

Because when we’re in a low mood, it's *so easy* to take it really seriously; to listen to what the mind is saying in these moments; to try and [do its bidding](https://www.gilespcroft.com/three-ways-to-deal-with-a-busy-mind/) so that we can ‘fix the problem’.

It's one of life's cruellest jokes that when we're *least* equipped to deal with a situation—up in our heads, disconnected, feeling all urgent, hijacked by our emotions—it seems like *that's* when we should roll up our sleeves and get to the serious business of changing our lives ‘in order to’ feel better!!

🤦🏻‍♂️

But of course it doesn't work like that. 

⚠️

Our circumstances don't create our mood.  
Our mood dictates the ‘reality’ we experience in that moment.

Getting your sleeves rolled up in a bad mood and ‘doing something’ just to satisfy ego's demands means it might shut up for a minute or two (allowing you to feel marginally better), but you're just building a rod for your back.

Because that very same ego is [only going to come back stronger](https://www.gilespcroft.com/are-you-reinforcing-bad-behaviour/), demanding *more* in order to be appeased next time!

😫

(Very silly indeed, dancing to the tune of something that's [not even real](https://www.gilespcroft.com/created-not-discovered/).)

Look, I'm not above any of this and I get caught up in moods, just like the rest of my fellow humans. (Ask my housemates.)

The *only* thing you have to do is see how they work; to recognise that they’re a fact of life and that they sort themselves out, **if we stop making them worse by trying to fix them.**

So why not keep an eye out for this happening today? And when you catch yourself, back off… and watch your life improve, immediately.

💟

Giles

p.s. Of course this is all much easier to see playing out in *other* people, so see if you can spot your partner or your kids, your family or colleagues getting caught up in a low mood, before you turn the mirror on your self. (Oh, and if you value your relationship with that other person, keep it to yourself when you *do* see it! 😂)

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