Why

Everything changes. Sometimes it’s good and sometimes, less good. Sometimes I understand it, many times I don’t.

When I don’t understand change, often my first instinct is to ask “WHY!?” Why is this happening, what is the point? How come I couldn’t avoid this, if I were ‘better’ shouldn't I have been able to stay out of this situation? Did I do something wrong, am I being punished? This line of questioning rarely lets me show up in my life the way I want to. When I am in “why” I am stuck. There is no movement in this stuck place and I only see the obstacle in front of me.

I don’t know about you, but being stuck is the last place I want to be. I don’t like who I am in that place, everything seems dim and hopeless and that is not who I want to be in this world! I want to believe in the lessons of life; I want to see the gift in EVERY situation.

So how does one do that? How do we change the challenging, disappointing, and unexpected things that life brings, into lessons and opportunities for growth and gratitude?

The best answer I have found is that it is a choice. I get to choose my attitude, and my reaction to the changes that come that I didn’t expect or don’t especially like. A choice. We ALWAYS have a choice; I love how empowering that is! Honestly, sometimes it takes me some time to get there, but once I do, the angst that I initially felt subsides.

I encourage you to look for the choices you make when things don’t go the way you thought they might. You have the power to decide what you are going to do with it, who do you want to be in that situation?

“You are limitless potential, so dare experience. Reach beyond why. Believe you have the courage to realize all you dream. Say “YES” to this day.” Mary Anne Radmacher

~Sheri