Sometimes life seems just a tad challenging - just a tad, right? Well, how are you going to grow without the challenges that get you thinking, that cause you to be creative, that drive you to move forward and stay the course? Think about it.
What is the alternative to challenge? Do you know the Japanese have the same word for crisis and opportunity? Yes, they see the opportunity in the crisis.
I wonder if that is one reason they live such healthy lives and lead the world in health and electronic devices.
I used to take everything so seriously.
Then I discovered the philosophy of looking for and finding the gift in stressful times.
Know what I discovered? Life just is.
Events just are.
So-called problems are really simply delays to slow me down, to calm me down, to cause me to step back and look at priorities.
Someone asked me how I was.
That day I experienced one frustration after another-or so I chose to interpret the events of that day that way.
I started to say "You don't want to know.
" Then I smiled and said "Terrific.
I am on a great adventure!" I instantly felt better - and the Universe brought gifts to my world in all kinds of unexpected packages.
Such gifts are always there for the taking.
You just need to know that truth to find the gifts.
You see, life is an adventure to savor in every moment.
Will you choose to make today plain vanilla or French Vanilla with real eggs and rich Madagascar vanilla beans swimming in organic dairy cream from stress-free cows who feast on natural pure green grass? Is today the time to go for that new fangled flavor you have been drooling over, but were afraid to try because your friends might tell you how cuckoo you are? What about some avocado ice cream in a cinnamon waffle cone topped with a scoop of pumpkin ice cream.
Pretty and cool.
Your day goes as you choose.
Which flavor will you savor now?