By Ahsan
“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” Mike Tyson, Heavy Weight Champion Boxer
Our life is most enjoyed when things go exactly as we want them to.
We want certain things in life and want them to be as precise as planned. For instance, take the way you like to drink your coffee: freshly ground French roast beans, made in a French press, brewed for 4 minutes with two tablespoons of heavy cream and hot. When we get something different from what we want, like your favourite coffee but cold, our enjoyment is not the same.
The same goes for how we want people to be and things in life to go.
However, something is lurking around the corner that we cannot see.
That thing is CHANGE.
Everything is changing. Nothing stays the same. When things change, and we have difficulty accepting it, we begin the easy road to misery.
The proverbial punch in the mouth is unpleasant. The feelings of disappointment and pain need to be felt and processed. They should not be ignored or resisted, but they too end up changing. When we are lucky, change brings growth. Change can beget happiness. Change can lead to resilience.
You can prove this to yourself if you go into that great library and read the book My Life Experience. No one needs to prove this to you.
Indeed, the happiest among us are those who understand that life is full of changes. In their understanding is acceptance of change and not fearing it. Acceptance helps to elevate your outlook and directly affects how you come out of the change: resilient or fragile. Strong or broken. Scared or Brave.
As the Chinese proverb goes, “when the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.”
Ok, so now we understand what boxers and philosophers mean about the effect of a change on our lives. We still don’t like change. In fact, we may never have been shown how to truly handle change.
Today, you will:
Action Steps:
1) Make a list of all the things that are going well for you: relationships, health, finances, work, fame, success, reputation, etc.
2) Anticipate how they could change and see yourself adapting and, most importantly, accepting it.
3) Consider how much you cling to and crave these things you identified in step one.
4) Resolve to cling less and crave less
5) Remind yourself that if anything on the list changes, you will be ready to deal with it. The ways and means will reveal themselves then, and you do not need to fret now.
6) Consider adding the life lesson of anticipating change, accepting change and adapting to change so that you live an Awesome Life!
May your life be full of happiness even when it changes.
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