Your world of possibilities.
After two years of flying solo following my marital separation, I went out on a date. I could pick any restaurant I wanted – so off we went to a club to dine and take my second salsa dance lesson.
As our discussion progressed during dinner, the topic of relationships arose. Remember, this was my first foray into the dating arena in many a year.
“No, I didn’t notice the tan line on your ring-free, left-hand finger signifying you wear a wedding ring and you’re married,” I said to the “gentleman.”
Did I let this throw me? I made a choice to course correct. I was not willing to let this bozo mar the memory of my first date.
I remained undaunted and had a great night with excellent conversation. Turned out he was a lucid and prophetic dreamer with juicy peeks into the aeries of the dream world.
The next and final time we met, I gave him a book on spiritual dreaming and the number of a therapist.
I could handle change like this, and I didn’t let it bother me. But yet my thinking bucked at smaller things.
I picked up a message at 11 PM from my hairdresser, the night before my 10 AM appointment, that informed me she moved.
What was I thinking?
Monkey mind whined that instead of her being 45 minutes away, she would be an hour away. Wrong. Travel time was only 35 minutes – and the new place was definitely nicer.
Why did she move locations? She needed a change.
All my internal whining was for naught.
Then, there was the lawn sprinkler. Not having an automated system necessitated moving the sprinkler several times. A friend bought and installed timers.
I graciously accepted them but thought, “This is a waste; I have to be outdoors to move them around anyway.” Wrong. They are wonderful.
I changed the way I do things. Now I have the flexibility to turn them on whenever I have time, forget about it, and water the rest later.
We want our lives to be different, but we want to remain the same, think the same.
However, if you want something you never have had, you have to be willing to do something you never have done, including the way you think about things.
We often evaluate our options logically and make a decision based on the best knowledge our minds have to offer. But our thinking is so limited compared to the world of possibilities.
“Discovery consists of looking at the same things as everyone else and thinking something different… Those ideas or situations that cause you to get off your routine paths and ‘think something different’ are whacks to your thinking.”
Roger von Oech
A Whack on the Side of the Head – How You Can Be More Creative
We have to make changes to allow our heart’s desires to enter our lives. If we do not respond to the gentle nudges that always precede a change, the two by four whack eventually will bonk us.
Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to identify where you have been resisting change in your life and look at it from another viewpoint.
Take a chance: change your thinking.
With a zest for life,
Virginia
“Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes.
Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly.
Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.
What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open mind.
Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.”
Henry Miller
Imagine being on track for
how you REALLY would like your life to be…
with your world of possibilities in your hands,
and YOU decide which ones to choose.
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