Practice practifce practice

You can let it break you,

Make you,

Or define you.

 

You’ve fought this battle before. Did you notice that it came at about the same time? You were going through the same situation and somehow out of it you managed to put yourself in this pile of mud.

Maybe it’s a coping mechanism. The amazing thing is that you always managed to find that counter party that somehow fit into that profile. Or was it purely your imagination?

Remind yourself that you are on the right path. This is just a pebble along the way. He was right. What about six months from now? Listen to yourself. You won’t magically download the necessary skills. You work on them each and every day, evolving them along the way. You are not looking for an attainable perfection; rather a continuous expansion of what you are capable of. You are doing better. Do you think the you from 2012 would have been able to cope with this? No. All those pebbles and rocks, little gusts of wind, storms along the way, have given you the inner strength you need to deal with this now. Do not shortchange yourself. If anyone can do this, you can.

Now wipe that frown from your face. Deal with your problems. Don’t just shove them aside. Deal with them. Are they valid problems, or are they fabricated? Untangle that knot in your head. Or maybe the problem is that your chaos is not where it should be?

Set you priorities.

Manage your expectations.

Set achievable, measureable goals.

 

 

And don’t forget, have fun along the way.

Some only plan for the future,

Some only live in the present.

Some dwell in the past.

 

It takes a lot more to use your past to build your future while enjoying the present.