I was very fortunate to spend two weeks in Italy this April. Upfront I realized it was not going to be a normal vacation. My mother is still recovering from her December and subsequent surgeries so every morning my sister and I were to take turns changing her bandages. After that responsibility, I expected time […]
Here is hoping that 2012 is marvelous and wonderful for all of you! But as it takes shape, morphs, shifts, and progresses, do your best to accept the unexpected, shift gears to address new situations, and stay focused on the now you can fix not the possible future what if’s which may never arise.
Is your stuff adding or taking away from your life? Are you ready to edit your life by letting go of your extraneous stuff?
The loss of someone dear to us, is the loss of a part of us. Yes, psychologically we know that the person will be with us forever in our hearts, minds, and memories. But the truth is that they are no longer with us physically. They are no longer here to interact with us. And this loss can affect our mind, body, and spirit.
When we only focus on ourselves, sometimes we have a hard time to see our blessings in our difficulties.
I believe the lesson is that our reality is what we perceive – and we can choose what we perceive. We choose what we focus on. We choose what we accept. We choose how we interpret different situations. Therefore we are actively choosing our lives every day.
I have come to see that Work-Life Balance is a misconception. I think we should stop thinking of “balancing” these seeming dichotomies and instead look at “amalgamation.” To amalgamate is to combine into a unified or integrated whole. Work and life should not be balanced but united.
What have you changed your mind about? What did you use to profess and live by that you now believe the opposite? What are the cold, hard facts that now appear to have holes in them?
Learning to adapt to change in our lives through lessons from Chicago weather.