Given the choice, we probably would want to be in control of everything that happens in our lives. That’s why we make plans. From short-term to medium-term to long-term plans, we have ideas of what we want to happen, where we want to be, and what we want to be doing at certain points in our lives.
Unfortunately, that’s not how it goes.
When things go wrong in my life, I always think of a funny (yet not-so-positive) line: “When I make plans, the Universe starts laughing.”
When your world spirals out of control, you have two choices:
- Allow yourself to get caught in the whirlpool of panic and/or depression.
- Take a deep breath and do these three simple things that will help you regain a semblance of control, and get through the bad situation – maybe not totally unscathed, but definitely better.
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Originally posted on August 20, 2014 @ 9:00 am