Drop Your Rigid Expectations

Todays article is an excerpt from my first book “Learning to Be Human Again”

It was a reminder I needed to hear today…

“Things simply won’t always go according to plans.

There, I said it.

You can count on that, too.

How you react to those changes and shifts will determine whether you find peace or experience frustration.

Life goes on, the way it wants to, and there’s not a damn thing you can do about it. This is a very freeing concept once you are able to digest it.

So here’s a suggestion. Why not go with the flow? Have you ever gotten married or gone on a big vacation and something out of the ordinary happened? Whether good or bad, I bet it was the moment you remembered most about the whole thing. It made that event in your life that much more memorable.

Treat life and the moments contained within it as an adventure. It rains, luggage gets lost, meals get screwed up, cars break down, and again, people don’t do or act the way you’d like them to.

Roll with it.

Smile at it.

Embrace it and accept it.

It sounds easy, right?

Well, obviously, if it were, we’d all be doing it.

But it is possible to shift your mindset to accept life exactly as it unfolds. We’ve all met people like that. They know how to roll with the punches, and get up when they get knocked down. We often refer to them as strong, when, in fact, they’re just able to adapt much easier. And you know what? They’re probably the happiest people we know.

When we drop our rigid expectations about the way life should happen, another wonderful concept is introduced into our lives.

Because we drop the expectation, our perspective shifts to the outlook that everything is unfolding just the way it should be.”

~Excerpt from “Learning to Be Human Again, by Matt Landry”