I heard a story once about a woman who planned and planned to take a vacation to Italy, only to board the plane and land in Holland. Imagine her surprise when she realized she had reached the wrong destination. All her preparation, studying the Italian language, mapping out her trip, creating her itinerary, researching her destination, were all lost. Time wasted. Now she was somewhere she didn’t want to be. She couldn’t look past the disappointment of not being in Italy to see what a beautiful place Holland was too. Yes it was different then she had planned but as she began to open her eyes to her surroundings, she realized that she was still in a beautiful place.
Are you in the place you intended to be? Have you landed in Holland when you had planned to go to Italy? Can you let go of disappointment so that you can open yourself to the beautiful opportunities that await you? Now I’m not saying that you shouldn’t strive for where you want to go in life, what I’m saying is that sometimes life leads us other places or takes detours along the way. Embrace the place you are right now. Find the lessons that this place is offering you. Find the beauty in it while you’re there and enjoy it until you move to the next destination. After all, the journey of getting there should be half the fun. Who knows, if you open up to it and look around, you might find that it is exactly where you were meant to be.
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Michelle Weimer
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I am a certified life coach through Coach
Training Alliance, which is an accredited
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