KEEP AN OPEN HEART

Over time most of us get to know ourselves fairly well. Experience usually teaches us that we will, sooner or later, move beyond whatever, obstacles we find in our paths.

Change is perhaps the only thing all of us agree that we can count on. I am encouraged by this. Realizing that each of us learns that just as the best experiences will pass, so also mercifully will those we consider the worst.

Nevertheless, there are times when we all feel quite discouraged. Most of us know, by now, that life is not all sunshine and light. I suspect that each and every one of us has felt that we’ve been knocked down or, at the very least experienced some setbacks.

I am convinced, that our continuing success and also our happiness may depend on how quickly we move beyond what we feel are obstacles in our paths. More importantly, I believe that almost everything depends on how we decide to approach, interpret and translate whatever new things we are experiencing.

In fact, I feel that we can, and actually must, turn almost anything life throws at us into a positive before we can build upon and incorporate it into our lives and move forward.

To give ourselves a chance to see life as a series of opportunities and experiences, rather than as a series of monumental challenges and obstacles we must struggle to overcome, I truly believe we need to keep both an open mind and open heart.  

In most things in life, I am convinced the key to moving forward and having a happy and successful life depends more than anything in how we interpret and act upon what we have coming into our lives, rather than whatever the actual experience itself might be.