Life is full of ups and downs, barriers, and obstacles. But each day is a new start with new opportunities. The thing to do is travel as well as you can through life.
We can whine about our circumstances or we can tackle and overcome them. Attitude makes a huge difference.
Pivot points.
Those times where you change direction, because things don't always go the way you planned. Like making a birthing plan - it's good to have one, but you have to be prepared to let it go if things don't go in the direction you thought they would. I wanted a natural birth and ended up having a caesarean to save the baby. That's life.
We need to be flexible in our plans because life - and other people - sometimes throw obstacles or unexpected circumstances in the way. Flexibility is a friend of resilience, helping us to cope with the vagaries of life. So be prepared to pivot.
Just because everyone is doing it doesn't mean you have to.
It's something that mothers say when we do something dumb, but it applies now, especially in the days of social media. "Everyone has a YouTube channel, everyone is on TikTok, you have to be an influencer." But you don't! We don't have to follow everyone else. We can carve out our own way of doing things. What works for one person doesn't always work for another, so don't worry about being different.
Learning from all of it.
Even from the bits that don't work. The thing is to learn from all of our experiences, even when we learn how not to do things.
My SALA experience wasn't all that I hoped, but I learned from it. One of the things I learned is how I would do it if I were running it myself. These are things that I can squirrel away for the future, just in case.
