Into each life some rain must fall

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote that in his poem, ‘ The Rainy Day’. We’re from New England, and one thing we’ve learned as New Englander’s is that if you wait long enough, change will come, the rain will stop.

When we get in that rainy day funk, look at it as a blessing. I can tell you, after living in Las Vegas where it rained once in a blue moon, when it rained I welcomed it like an old friend, the downtime, the quiet time that reminded me of those old days in New England.

If you find yourself in a position where the rainy days of your mind are more frequent than desired it might be time for you to take another perspective because you can’t keep moving forward with the same tools in your toolbox that didn’t work in the past. It might be a wake up call from Father/Mother/God of what doesn’t work. And when something doesn’t work we need to get out of our [tool]box, or as they say, think outside of our box.

But how can you think outside of your box if you don’t know what you don’t know?

Ah Ha! That’s a great question!

When I started my journey as a life coach back in 2002 we did exercises called ‘stretches’. We would force ourselves to do things that made us completely uncomfortable. I remember one of those ‘stretches’ where I had to go out on the beach with a paperclip and come back with something different. Some people in our group came back with physical cash, some came back with only the paperclip that they had started with. The ones that came back with something different than the paperclip were willing to get out of their box, release their story of what it should look like, or what it HAD looked like their whole life. They were willing to see something different, and that is where you need to be, mentally, if you find yourself repeating the same old story.

Peace!