Have you ever been so stressed out that you don’t what to do or where to turn? Well I have been there and done that and no it’s not a fun place to be.

Wouldn’t it be nice if there were an easy answer to everything? Life seems to be so easy for some people and doesn’t it make you wonder why that is? Why is it that some people make it look so easy? are they better that you? are they smarter than you? are they more lovable than you? My answer would be no, yet they still must know something that you think you don’t right?

Well maybe they do know or have something that you don’t and it could be something as simple as love. We all have felt love before right? But have you ever felt love for yourself? I know that sounds silly but you have to love yourself, respect yourself and have confidence in yourself if you truly want to be happy and fulfilled.

Life doesn’t happen to you it just happens, it’s how you perseive the things that happen that makes all the difference. Try turning all the negative things in your life around to a positive.

I had an instance here just this week that would make a person wonder “Why me!” I took vacation time from work this week to go to Florida with my kids and grand children but we didn’t make it. We had an unbelievable stream of events that seemed to be keeping us here.

We were supposed to leave on Sat. Oct. 4th and we had been planning this trip since Feb. but hadn’t really made plans as far as how to get there until a few weeks before.

Well after we booked the flight my dad ended up in the hospital. Things didn’t seem to be too serious at first so we still planned on making the trip. A few days later things took a turn for the worst, they told us that they still didn’t know what was wrong with him but that he had contracted a staph infection in his blood, the worst possible form of staph and then pneumonia. They were giving him a 50-50 chance of just surviving this and they still didn’t know what was wrong that actually put him in the hospital.

So needless to say we cancelled our flight. Thing were looking pretty bleak for my dad at this point. We were all bummed that we weren’t going on our trip but being here seemed to be more important.

They finally performed surgery to see what was going on as a last resort. My mom insisted, she said she would rather have him die while they were doing something than to see him just lay there and die with them doing nothing. Yes things were that bad.

All seemed to be doing ok, at least he was stable. Since we thought he could be that way for some time we thought we would still try to salvage part of our vacation after mom said thing were looking up a little. My mom hadn’t been contacting us to tell us how he was progressing, I usually had to call her.

We decided on Monday that we would just book a flight and go since we all had taken the time from work and that’s just what we did. We booked a flight at around 9am to leave at 4 pm. We have a little over an hour drive to the airport so we left town around 1pm to head that direction and pick up my son and try to get the tickets printed from his computer.

About 10 min. after we left, actually 11 min because it was 1:11 when my mom called and said that dad was getting worse. We debated all the way to my son’s on whether we should go after the call and being detained by road construction 3 times and getting the call at 1:11. all the signs were telling us not to go but we plugged on.

We got to my son’s and checked to see if the email had come with the tickets but still no tickets and time was slipping away. We were all under a lot of stress at this point wondering if we could cancell the tickets,or if we could make it to the airport on time and if we did would we have time to park the car or check our luggage.

As we got close to the airport my granddaughter was singing “we are going on an airplane, we are going to see the beautiful beach and the beautiful sand” so even under the stress my son started to crack up because of her singing, Well my daughter didn’t think it was funny and she was sitting they crying because the granddaughter was going to be so dissapointed. It really was a gut wrenching moment. You really would have to of been there to fully understand.

Needless to say we missed our flight. As we were heading back to my son’s we passed a Chuckie Cheese so to make the best of a bad situation we stopped to try and salvage the day and put things in perspective. We all turned our attention to seeing the joy on the little granddaughters face as she played. She didn’t understand all that was going on and that’s where she had the advantage over us.

You see the inocence of a child is a marvel, something we all need to go back and experience again. Many of us were not treated and raised as maybe we should have of could have but our childhood shaped who we are today, you see we didn’t know any better then and now we know. We know that it is up to us to lighten up and make the best of all that we face each day and to know that it’s nothing personal and that “Life just Happens”

So make the best out of every situation and enjoy your life to the fullest. You deserve the best.

If you are needing help understanding who you are and what your lifes purpose is, there are many prograhms out there that can be of help. I would like to share with you a few that I have found to be of help to me on my understanding of who I am and how to cope with the life I have been given.

There is an ebook by Leticia Vandramini by the name of ” 7 Power Words to Live By for a Meaningful and Happy Life” She offers you encouragment on how to change your life for the better and to be happy. Life is too short to spend it unhappy.

Some other resources that might be of interest to you are;

“How to Build Your Self Esteem in just One Weekend” by Aurelius Tjin

“How to Forgive Yourself” by Mark Ivar Myher

“DNA of Success ” By Jack Zufelt

“NEURO_vision” Alan Densky

Please take time to check these books out, I am sure they can be of help to you, they have been to me.

Thank You! You are Awesome!

Live, Love, Laugh,

Kathy @~}~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

www.becomelovable.com