Always have a Plan B. Plan A for your life may be excellent and it
may work out that you can live your life following Plan A, your dream
life. Fantastic! Most excellent! Remember it is not guaranteed. So, develop a Plan B. Make all the preparations for Plan B, which
you do for A. You may have to implement
it quickly. If you really feel that Plan
A is what you are “meant” to do and you are willing to fight and compromise to
make it happen, think about the consequences of what you are willing to
do. Can you live with those
consequences; does the end justify the means?
There will always be impediments to your goals. What are you willing to do to overcome
those? Please don’t break any laws.
Life has a way of kicking us all
in the seat of the pants. Life is not
fair, if someone told you it was, I am sorry, they misled you. Sometimes it
happens because of our own actions and we have to accept the repercussions
of those actions. Sometimes it is
because of something out of our control (boss at work, illness, accidents,
etc.). What change can you affect? That is what you will need to focus on. If you cannot affect a change in the
direction you want to go from where you are at, then what can you change about
where you are to make it to the place where you can affect a change in your
life? This I am sure will not be
instant, you may have to plan for making the change, to overcome the impediment
that has been placed in front of you, it may take a lot of hard work,
physically, mentally, or emotionally.
Ask yourself what you are willing to spend. What is the price of your contentment? Price and cost are not always monetary. The highest prices we pay are usually
emotionally. Consider all you can think
of, discuss it with a mentor, ask people for advice. A word of caution, you might be asking the
wrong person; not because they say something you don’t want to hear, but
because they do not have YOUR best interest at heart. With that being said, there is something you
can learn from everyone, it may be you might learn what NOT to do, rather than
what to do; it is nevertheless, still learning.
Work will not keep you warm at
night. Money from work will pay the
bills for heat. Some person or people
that you call family and live with will add the “warmth of the heart” that many
people find is missing from their lives, sometimes too late. Some people are driven to live a particular
lifestyle, and because of that seek money to make that lifestyle happen. Sometimes those people focus on the money to
buy them what they think will make them “happy.” Sometimes people pay for this
with huge withdrawals from their emotional accounts, and sometimes people
realize this too late to change. Don’t
make that mistake; don’t let something influence you to make choices in which
you forfeit the world’s greatest gift to have.
Pocahontas (yes, she was a real person), was reputed to have said, on
her deathbed, concerning her son, “It is enough, that he lives,” and then to
her husband, “hold me.” What is your
greatest gift? You have to decide.
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