How do you react or respond when things don’t go as you planned?  When you think you have your life all figured out, how you see the next months, years… decade?

What happens when life throws you a curve ball and you find you are no longer in control of the life you THOUGHT you were going to have?

Sure, we plan for our future house, or a trip, we save money, we line up a baby sitter, maybe we have a retirement plan in place… yet… how do you handle it when something abruptly throws a monkey wrench in your life and all of a sudden you find it didn’t play out like you thought, or dreamed it would?  What’s next?

I’ve recently been in that situation and frankly… it’s a bit much to ‘deal’ with.  You give your heart to something, or someone… or you give your passion, your ALL to something that you think will be ‘exactly’ as you planned, then, without notice… you discover that your plans were subject to change.

Ah.  That’s what life is all about!  The lessons we learn when we realize we are NOT as in ‘control’ as we thought we were.  First comes the confusion… then you get humble, then you may go through a phase of ‘how did this happen’.  Maybe you’ll waste time on the ‘why’… but in the end… it’s how you stop and really ask yourself.. ‘What’s NEXT“?

The way to get past the devastation that your perfectly planned life can change in a blink of an eye is right in front of you.

Accept.

Once you accept, you can get to the ‘now what’.  The ‘now what’ will help you get back into your creative spirit, your forward momentum, in order to dream how to move forward and make the necessary adjustments that will get your new life