How to say YES to a Setback.
Life sometimes brings us situations that are trying – that test us – that set us back.
Your spouse loses his job and you’re carrying the financial burden. A parent or child is sick. Your job is sucking the life out of you. A bad break up has left you not seeing straight. Whatever the situation, you want it to be over. You want it to be done.
I intimately understand what it feels like to want it to be over. I broke my foot 3 weeks ago and I have to be in a boot for 3 months. Yep, 3 months. No yoga. No hiking. No walking the dog. No Europe over the holidays.
I’ve been doing my best to look at the bright side, to be a trooper, to rise to the occasion. The truth is, it’s a destabilizing, frustrating and challenging time. At the same time, I know it’s only temporary and it could be so much worse.
What I’ve learned is this:
It’s an opportunity for me to reevaluate. To make sure I am focused on the right things. To review my priorities. To create new goals for 2019. To develop a stronger foundation within myself and my entire life. To feel a multitude of feelings. To learn patience. To have more compassion, for myself and others.
Perhaps I needed to slow down in order to move two-three steps forward.
We all have the power to find the silver lining in any situation. There always is one – we just need to look for it. When life brings us lemons, we have the choice to make sweet, luscious, liquid nectar out of it.
Say YES to whatever is happening in your life.
Allow the situation to propel you forward on your life path.
Bounce back. You got this.
