why keep showing up when life throws you curve balls?
We can all agree – there’s nothing like setting an intention to have obstacles seemingly everywhere — car trouble. A kid who avoided homework long enough to create a smoldering fire. A bad cold or worse. Blah blah blah.
If you notice it enough, it becomes laughable and part of the cycle of leveling up or trying to accomplish something that feels like a stretch. The question was, “how can I arrange my life to avoid these obstacles?” Now the question is, “how will I handle them when they show up?”
In my efforts to write daily early morning, before everything else, I’ve had two mornings in a row that haven’t gone according to plan. Traditionally, I would have been shaking my fists at clouds and the person who messed up my well-laid plans.
I see progress this time. I can shift gears, help another person, and keep the plans in place but not freak out when they don’t unfold as expected. Did it mess up my flow? Kind of. Is that a reason to give up? Of course not.
My old self would have let the interruption delay progress for another day. Maybe tomorrow will be better.
From many cycles of working from this thinking, I know now that maybe it won’t. I might get a string of days as unexpected as the last two, or more so. Maybe not. Either way, I can’t let those events determine what I do more than I’ll base my mood on the weather. It is a defeating cycle to continually look outside yourself for permission to feel a certain way or do something.
All we have control over is the meaning we give to what happens and how we choose to react to it. That’s been a frustrating statement to me at times, but the more I contemplate and practice it, the more freeing it becomes. It is a subtle shift that helps you take your power back in a big way.
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