If everything seems a bit out of control...
You know how everything sometimes seems to flow, and you’re ON it, and then life just - happens??
That was me, having it all under control, on a roll, and then, within one week:
- My dad got rushed to hospital with pneumonia - in Denmark
- For hours I thought my eldest daughter had been crushed to death in Seoul, South Korea (she wasn’t - she was asleep in her bed but I didn’t KNOW that)
- My mum had a fall and was also rushed to hospital - in Spain
- All of them were in 3 different countries and I was in the UK at a congress, so I had absolutely no control over the situation (how did me and my family get distributed all over the world in the first place anyway?!?!)
Why am I telling you this??
Because it just proves that you can try as hard as you want to control your life by controlling the circumstances around you, but you just never know what’s around the corner!!
Good news are…
The ONE thing you can always control is how you want to think, feel and react.
If you’re stuck on things having to be a specific way, people have to act in a certain way, animals responding to treatments and owners picking up their phones - then you’re in for a lot of frustration.
And you’ll feel powerless a lot of times, and like things just happen TO you.
But if you’re willing to accept life happening as it just just does anyway, and then decide how you want to deal with it along the way - THAT’S when you can really feel in control of your life, and your career.
When shit hits the fan, your brain is likely to go into catastrophe mode and find evidence of how everything is just going wrong. It’s in your power to stop that spin, take a breath and just deal with the facts, without the drama.
My brain was telling me I should have been there for my family members, and there was a lot of self blame and guilt going on. But looking at the facts, even with the best of will and a private jet, I could hardly have been there for all of them. Realising that, helped me step out of the spin of blame and frustration, and just deal with one thing at a time, from where I was.
Where are you holding on for dear life trying to control everything happening around you, and freaking out when things don’t go the way they’re “supposed to”? Where can you let go, and just focus on what’s going on inside you instead?
The greatest suffering, and cause of most anxiety and stress, is what we make of any situation, not the situation itself
When you're in it, it's hard to see, and we genuinely think there's no other way to deal with it, but being able to take a step back and gain a perspective will save you from soooo much stress.
If everything seems a bit much right now and you appear to have painted yourself into a corner you can't get out of, reach out for an free consult and I'll help you gain a perspective and make a plan to take control over your life, without having to change any of your current circumstances:
https://calendly.com/gunila-lifecoach/free-exploratory-session
In your corner,
