If you haven’t seen the film Groundhog Day, go out and rent the DVD the moment you finish reading this post.
This movie contains everything you need to know about positive thinking, personal growth and happiness.
In the film, actor Bill Murray plays Phil, an arrogant weather forecaster who spends the night in Punxsutawney, where he is to do a broadcast the next day.
He wakes up the next morning, does his story and is annoyed to discover that he is trapped in Punxsutawney for a second night because of a snowstorm that comes in after the groundhog ceremony.
When he wakes up in his guest house room the next morning, it is the morning of the day before all over again. Everything that happened to him the previous day all happens again. Phil gets stuck in a time wrap. He is trapped in the date of February 2 over and over again.
First Phil takes advantage of the situation, learning all he can about the people around him and manipulate them but after a while the pleasure he gets out of this wears off. The town never changes; the events and the people never change. Only Phil can change.
He goes through a difficult time and even considers suicide but later he decides to change himself because he understands that he can not change the world around him. Any change that occurs must be inside of him because only he can change – all the other characters repeat exactly what they did the day before. Slowly, he goes through a transformation.
Having suffered himself, he is able to empathize with other people’s suffering.  In other words, he accepts “winter” as an opportunity. He begins to take piano lessons from a music teacher who is continuously surprised at how good he is, since she always believes it is his first lesson. He learns how to be an ice sculptor. And he becomes more generous. He recreates himself by focusing all his attention on inner change, on becoming a more loving and giving person.
Suddenly, he feels true fullfillment. He starts sharing all this new energy with everyone in town. Eventually he ends up with the girl of his dreams and the nightmare ends. He brakes the cycle and finds himself in a brand new day with his true soul mate.
The changes around him occur because he has changed. His worst day of his life turns into his best day, and the only thing that changes is his thinking and his actions. This is one great lesson in personal transformation.
Julia SimaviÂ