It’s so easy to get swept away in the thinking about what’s wrong with our lives. But it’s important to really stop and consider what’s right. I was talking with a friend whose job has become mundane. She pointed out that I was spending time outside my comfort zone while she, at the first sign of discomfort, ran back to her comfort zone and a steady paycheck. I reminded her, a mother of a 9-year old boy and twin 6-year old boys, that a few years ago she and her husband were struggling. She had reached her breaking point and had asked the universe for something. It responded in a big way; her old place of employment, where she worked before the twins, called and offered her a job in a different department. It was a lifesaver at the time. When I reminded her that where she is now saved her from quite a bit of misery a few years ago, she admitted that her paycheck allowed her family to do things and that she was grateful for the insurance and the fact that it wasn’t a stressful job. She can go home without her job every night, which is most important to a mother of three.
We all have things in our life to be grateful for, if we just take the time to be present and acknowledge them. Perhaps we are where we are for reasons that benefited us at some point in the past. If you want to change something, it’ll be much easier doing so from a place of happiness about your current situation rather from a place of disgust. So make yourself contemplate all that is right with your current situation.
