What was up with last week’s TIP with *|FNAME}* written instead of your name?
Things don’t always go the way we think they would or should.
Regardless of appearances, if we look, we’ll find a silver lining.
I lost my internet connection early Friday afternoon, and the service provider already left for the holiday weekend.
Benefit: I took the weekend off to play and do other things instead of focusing on a deadline for my new Soulgoals website.
Monday morning I received a call from my ISP. Ah, just in time to send you my TIP.
As I was ready to hit send, the connection dropped again.
No worries, I’ll use my cell phone. Simple.
Instead, I deleted it.
My neighbor let me use her computer.
I printed what I had written on my PC and retyped it on her small screen… which is how I ended up writing *|FNAME}* instead of your name.
As the TIP was about not making things laborious, and this became a three-hour process, I decided to take a short cut.
I cut the number of words to 1/3rd.
Benefit: Every week, I had an intention to shorten my TIPS, and it didn’t quite happen. Using my fatigue as “inspiration,” life showed me how.
Your TIP is to see how your life is being rearranged to make things better.
Breakdowns or things falling apart often precede breakthroughs.
Don’t beat yourself up.
Dump the guilt and blame.
This is a moment when you can let go of your resistance and open to new perspectives.
Redirect your focus from the breakdown to the benefits.
Benefit: My breakdown provided the idea to share today’s TIP with you.
When you go through a hard period,
When everything seems to oppose you,
… When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute,
NEVER GIVE UP!
Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!
Jalaluddin Rumi
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