Best laid plans

Welcome to Monday all!

How did you fare on your first day of daylight savings? I caught myself mentally preparing all week for the loss of precious hours of sunlight, which frankly didn’t help much!

I love a good mental preparation but you have to know when you’ve crossed the line into full on worry (guilty as charged).

I have an important meeting this morning, one I’m not quite sure how to get to the outcome I am hoping for. I’ve prayed, drafted many versions of HAS Wellness vision and mission statements, and soon will write some more drafts of what I want this meeting’s takeaway to be. In the end, I know I don’t have control over the outcome, and that I need to prepare for a no, or a yes.

I wonder how you all prepare for your future. Do you just wing it and hope for the best, obsessively plan every detail, or bury your head in the sand? I’d like to find myself somewhere between breathless anticipation and grounded reality.

I’ve been through it all, and I mean ALL. In every situation and circumstance, after I catch my breath (and probably eat to much sugar), is a new equilibrium, one that was born out that pressure and change in my life . I promise you, you have done the same thing a thousand times, and probably weren’t even aware of your own adaptability and strength. Even when you got the answer you wanted, you still had to adjust to that new reality.

I encourage you to consider how yo prepare for, and respond to the changes in your life. I’m going to quote my favorite guy here-Viktor E. Frankl

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”

My mental preparation helps me decide how I will choose to respond to an outcome. This allows me to have a sense of autonomy, safety, and self-reliance. My prepared response to the loss of daylight in the afternoon is to make sure to walk out the door in the morning to bask in whatever sunshine that day brings.

I’d love to hear your thoughts below :)

Big smiles,

Elisha